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I can't possibly write anything as eloquent as the professional music bloggers will today but as my meager, little blog is all about music AND the fact that he, like millions of others, was and is a massive part of my life soundtrack, I have to pay tribute.

To use a pun he was 'thrilling', my strongest memory was spending a whole week totally excited and waiting for the midnight launch on a Friday of his video Thriller. Then, there were no Tweets, no leaks to the press or 'teasers'. No-one knew what to expect and then it started and I watched it awestruck. Let alone that the song was brilliant, it was the dancing, I had never seen anything like it.

He is everywhere at the moment, the internet is slow, he is the subject of 30% of Tweets in the UK, his music was playing in my local music store this morning and it's on all the radio stations I tune in on. And so it should be.
Forget all the weirdness, the looks - whatever. He was totally all about the music and never forget how he changed everything, the style of singing, the music itself especially with Quincy Jones, and the dance - his influence on dance can be seen a million times a day. And he was captain of the music video and used this in a way no-one else did at that time, making his music into small films.

Tell me, who does not move to his music when it's played?

I am going to upload my CD's to the ipod this afternoon and play and play, everyone this weekend should play his music.

My best friend emailed me this today from Canada:
"The world took everything from him and then threw him away but we will always have his essence inside of us - we grew up with him - laughed with him - cried with him - I hope the peace he has found is what he has always been looking for......."

And my sister sent me a text saying:-
'Too young'

Michael Jackson
King of Pop
RIP

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