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The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy.

All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted.

I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.

Our relationship was not "a sham" as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a "Normal life" found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

I wanted to "save him" I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.

His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn't know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.

At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.

He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad.

Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson's being or actions.

Même Pete Townshend ! (RIP 'Michael Jackson)

La mort de Michale Jackson, quelques semaines après avoir annulé son grand retour sur scène (50 spectacles à Londres!), a quelque chose d'infiniment triste. Il fut une époque, pas si lointaine, où Michael Jackson est devenue l'ultime vedette pop, mariant deux grandes cultures musicales (la noire, la blanche); j'irais même jusqu'à dire qu'avec Thriller, le plus grand succès discographique de tous les temps, Michael Jackson a pavé la voie à un monde où le Président américain peut porter fièrement les deux cultures et susciter l'admiration de deux mondes qui jusqu'à tout récemment restaient largement opposés. Difficile de détester une race dont on adore la musique! Avec Off The Wall et Thriller, Michael Jackson et son complice Quincy Jones ont pratiqué l'ouverture de l'esprit.

Si omniprésent était Michael Jackson au tournant des années '80 que même un des "parrains" du punk, Pete Townshend, l'adorait... De rapporter Emma, l'aînée du leader des Who:

"Another time, he came back from Tower Records with 11 boxes of records. In the boxes, there were no less than three copies of "Off the Wall", Michael Jackson's first solo album. Exactly why did you buy three, I asked him? "Well, it was so good! I just kept thinking I had to be sure to pick up a copy, and I was in a rush, I couldn't remember what I had already got, but I thought, well if I get more than one, I can give it to people as a gift."

Une vraie victime du show-biz, coincé par un talent trop immense, et qui, pour enrichir sa famille, aura ultimement vécu une vie de malheurs.

Le moment où Michael Jackson est passé du stade de vedette populaire à phénomène. 25 mars 1983.