{"id":1251,"date":"2009-06-26T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2009-06-26T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:03:26","slug":"michael-jackson-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson… R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

I fell asleep last night and when I woke up around 4pm, I was surprised to see the same Jacksons documentary on most of the MTV\/VH1 channels. I guessed something was up.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this was confirmed this morning when I heard the news. It seems it was a heart attack. It’s a shame – no matter what you thought of him, he was a talented (if latterly, very\u00a0confused) individual.<\/p>\n

There’s a good write up in The Times<\/a>. The one in The Sun isn’t too bad, either. All the other papers are covering it, of course. Best if you read those instead of me quoting anything.<\/p>\n

I’m sure this will upset some people, but in many ways it is as significant as Elvis’ death. Not just the fact that Jacko was a superstar and supremely talented person (more so than Elvis, in my opinion), but due to the way the public is behaving already. The media has gone crazy.<\/p>\n

Right now on breakfast TV they’re at Glastonbury interviewing people about what it means. And they’ve got a Jacko impersonator in the studio. And I took the car to the Ford dealer this morning to get it looked at (EMS fault), and on the radio they have got people phoning in with their opinions: mainly middle-aged women, clearly contemplating suicide over his death. The news channels have covered little else, though it is tiresome listening to Z-list celebrities stuttering and stammering (why is it they can’t talk properly off-screen?) for 5 minutes just to say ‘I’m shocked’.<\/p>\n

I was never into Jacko’s kind of music, but I didn’t specifically hate what he did. I just recognised him for what he was: musically gifted.<\/p>\n

Edit:<\/strong> 26\/06\/2009 #1 – Daytime TV is driving me nuts. Phone-in after phone-in with such gems as: <\/p>\n

I’m just [pause]… really [pause]… really sad! He was very [pause]… very [pause]… good! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People really are idiots. <\/p>\n

Edit<\/strong>: 26\/06\/2009 #2 – And now they have Uri Geller on the phone. I don’t think I need to say any more on that: you know what he<\/strong> was like at the best of times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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