Well this is my first blog post and yes it is about Michael Jackson. Like the death of Princess Diana this has shook me slightly. Why?? Maybe because being a similar age his music was always there throughout my life. I have some of his music and was today compelled to buy three of his albums off Amazon that I had never bought when they were released.
When the news filtered through on Thursday evening of his demise, I said to my 14 year old son, this is for you what it was like for me when Elvis died. In 1977 I had only recently begun work after leaving school. My Mum woke me up to tell me Elvis had died. I wasn't a fan of his nor were my parents but I suspect the enormity of this event made her compelled to wake and tell me as soon as the news was announced. Back then we had no 24/7 rolling news coverage and watching this past two days the depth of coverage on the news channels has been overwhelming but strangely addictive.
Last night all the major terrestrial channels had Michael Jackson documentaries showing at similar times, Sky had a programme repeated several times over Sky 1 and 2 showing.
I suspect we will have much more to come over the following weeks. RIP Michael.
