29 June 2009

Michael Jackson passed away...

On Thursday June 25th at around 6pm I was about to meet with some friends to enjoy a mild afternoon at Rockefeller Plaza with some after work drinks. What struck me is that people were pointing at the monitors of the NBC studios that are located right there. "Breaking News: King of Pop dies in LA hospital" they said and I was standing there for some time, realizing this was a moment in music history that nobody would easily forget. He was about to come back in London with 50(!) concerts, starting next month.
While I was standing there a car drove by, all windows down, playing Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' song loud and clear. I thought: "Wow, this is drama, this is America..." From that moment on, the death of Michael Jackson has dominated the news and daily life up until this moment.
On Saturday, while playing the regular soccer game in Central Park, it was mainly Michael Jackson's music that was coming out of the usual radios carried around. And one of my colleagues said: "I will never moonwalk the same again..."
For the latest gossip and celebrity updates, mainly about Jackson, go to http://www.tmz.com/, you will be amazed by the updates about everything in the case "King of Pop"! The cause for his dramatic death has still not been confirmed.
Tomorrow, there will be a memorial at The Apollo, the Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson's career, there he won the Amateur Night with the Jackson 5 in 1969. It has been a hard, crazy and extravagant life that he has been living since, may he rest in peace.

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