Michael Jackson is dead

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sad

This is a shock and very sad. As a child of the seventies, I grew up with the music of the Jacksons and remember many happy times with their music playing in the background.

It is tragic that such an incredible performer fell from grace so hard.
I hope his children find stability and security.

Daft, I think you will have to tolerate the fact that some people disagree with you. You can argue with people, but you can't shut them up. Just ignore them.

I am pretty much unbothered by his death.

I find it impossible to seperate the man and his music from the persistant rumours about his sexual preferences.

I cannot get the image of him dangling his son over the hotel balcony in Berlin out of my head. Does anyone really believe that his children would ever have been able to live a normal, carefree life?

He was a sad individual, from the moment that his parents realised that he and his brothers could make them rich.

Ok, if he's dead, really, i'll eat my hat.

you do realise he owns a private island don't you...and that he could just go and live on it?

On the other hand, if he really is dead (and it would take alot to prove it), i apologise.

I agree with MmeLindt.

Hear hear, Mdme Lindt.

I hope the media doesn't forget Iran.

but even if you didnt like the music, can you appreciate how good it was?

he was, however, a freak, and that has completely overtaken his talent as a musician.

Not a fan, but very sad, he was only 50, and wether i liked him or not, he was a very, very clever man, some of those songs he wrote will go on forever

ive allrady had a joke bout mj we live in a world when ppl die the jokes start coming

50 is very young isn't it? Just goes to show that money can't actually buy you immortality (although the Royal Family give that impression...)

He was a very sick man, but I often think that his mental state was probably quite "normal" for someone subjected to such incredible media adulation. (I'm amazed that Paul McCartney is so surprisingly 'normal' in comparison - watching footage of him bringing the world to its screaming knees 40 years ago and it's a wonder he's not living in a bubble and talking to chimps.)

Crawler Romano on GMTV this morning said that "the whole world is affected by MJ's death"

Let's pop over to Tehran shall we and ask the people on the street there if they give a rat's ass about the demise of a pampered, dangerous,has-been freak show.

monkeytrousers;

yes, i'm starting to realize you can't reason with the unreasonable.....some of the conversations i've had with people on here...i'd get more sense out of a brick wall.

I would just like to nominate this as a stunning vocal performance from a 10/11 year old Michael Jackson, whatever anyone might think of how he developed in recent years, he had an amazing talent.

What a strange situation this is. On one hand, it is so sad that he has died so young leaving his children and just generally being so seemingly alone. I love his music and it seems so timeless.

However, there is an overwhelming part of me that has a problem with his personal life. However people try and justify what he happened (i.e. he was never convicted), it just leaves me very uneasy. He had children in his bed, and at least 3 accused him of more than that. And he paid them off.

So how do you mourn someone who obviously left such a musical legacy, but had such a dubious personal history. I feel very uncomfortable with all of this.

flowery - doesn't that clip just make you weep for the potential of that young boy.

What Violethill said ages ago. Sad news, but his life was already very sad.

A friend of mine has commented on FB this morning (she's an HIV nurse in Uganda)

"When would the death of an African child be headline news on the BBC"

Says it all.

I didn't like him alive. I didn't like his music - not my scene. I was very disturbed by the allegations made against him - too many to think it was all innocent.

Why should we respect him because he died? In our society people speak ill of the dead all the time. He was a weirdo. He's dead.

So what?

God what a beautiful boy.

And what wicked parents he had.

I do hope that crazy family aren't allowed to destroy any chance of normal, emotionally healthy development in his children. But I expect they will be, so the mad circus will continue.

Absolutely Kew, so sad how it all turned out.

In terms of the child abuse allegations, I really don't know what I think. I know lots of people think because he paid them off therefore it means there's a possibility/probability that he was guilty. But I do know that if I thought someone had abused my DS, no amount of money in the world would be able to pay me off, I'd want a conviction and suitable sentence. Just a thought.

What will happen to his children as I seem to remember that the mother(s) signed over any rights they had as parents and didn't have contact with the children ?

Tell me about it Kerry. I've already had enough of watching these celebrity "friends" crawling over each other to pimp themselves out.

Makes me sick.

In a way it doesn't matter about the pay offs. He had children in his bed and freely admitted that and saw nothing wrong with that. That is a form of abuse anyway........

I want to believe it is not true, because it destroys all my beliefs about humans. But in this case, I think my beliefs about humans are destroyed because the evidence is there to see. It is all the harder to believe because he was so talented in other areas.

Fair point Bunny

Not a fan myself but I don't think he was a happy man and hope there's some element of release for him now.

Going to rent a DVD so I don't have to listen to tributes all night, am only person in the world who actively dislikes the music I think.

But RIP.