Michael Jackson Dead

[Voodoochild]

RIP... he'll be trully missed by me and my wife as huge fans.

[jazjme]

IM in shock, utter shock, RIP, a true musical genius has passed.

[King Axl]

I had a copy of 'Thriller', who didn't?

Despite his increasingly bizarre behavior over the last fifteen to twenty years--the botched plastic surgery and the sexual abuse allegations--Michael Jackson was an icon to those of us who grew up in the 1980's in the same way Elvis and The Beatles were to the generation before us.

One of a kind, he was.

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Thriller was the first album I ever bought.  Dangerous was underrated imo.

RIP Michael.  Gone Too Soon.

[Chief]

This is really sad and shocking... damn.
RIP

[Vicious Wishes]

Unbelievable. I just heard, cardiac arrest. What a loss.

[D]

a Family friend on the news said that MJ's enablers made Anna Nicole Smith's look like nothing.

So it will be very unfortunate if these hanger ons and enablers helped lead to his death

[w.axl.rose]

I just saw the helicopter that was carrying Micheal's body outside my house. Got the chills for a moment.

[Albert S Miller]

So so sad, big part of my life, especially the 80's, but even the 70's had the Jackson Five, he will also be greatly missed in my family as well.  Loved the song "Ben".  Rest well now Michael, and my prayers to his family.

[AxlsMainMan]

I've cried like a baby all day while listening to Thriller.

R.I.P. Mike'.

[FunkyMonkey]

A video statement from Jermaine Jackson...

http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=971e244a-b5db-4185-bafd-b0aca379496c

[FunkyMonkey]

VAN HALEN, QUEEN, POISON, VELVET REVOLVER Members Comment On MICHAEL JACKSON's Passing - June 25, 2009

Members of VAN HALEN, QUEEN, POISON, SHINEDOWN and VELVET REVOLVER have issued statements regarding the passing of pop music legend Michael Jackson, who died earlier today (Thursday, June 25) at age 50.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=122589

[journey]

Thriller was the first album I ever bought. 

RIP Michael.  Gone Too Soon.

Thriller was my first album too.

He'll be greatly missed.

RIP.

[kmorgan]

This is so, so sad for me.  It was so shocking at first, but now that it has sunk in, I just can't keep myself from crying.  I feel like a huge part of my generation's culture has died.  He was our Elvis...  Maybe now he will find the peace he was searching for.  He was the most amazing entertainer our generation ever had the opportunity to see, and this is such a loss. 

[D]

Another amazing performer I never got the pleasure to see live.

[kmorgan]

The dude seriously glided like he was on ice. I've never seen someone dance that way with so much agility and I don't know what u call it.

I know.  Once you started watching him dance, you just couldn't stop.  He was amazing.  I had my students watch some video of him moonwalking once in a speech class, (I tried to incorporate it into the whole "How to be a Great Performer" thing, but really, I just wanted to expose them to his talent because all they knew we're the bad things), and they we're beside themselves.   They THOUGHT Chris Brown could dance until they saw the man he learned it all from!

[Smoking Guns]

I was never a fan of his, but I am so sad.

In a way though, he's free.  I don't think he had a very happy life.  His dad would beat him before shows when he was a kid.  He had all these trials, which are never easy on anyone.  Tack on the health problems and money problems, and it's a wonder he made it so far.

But I never got that "phony" vibe I get from other pop stars.  He seemed pretty real.

Hope he is happy wherever he is now.

Much respect to Michael Jackson.

In many ways, him and Axl have a lot of similarities.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Larry King just called Sean Puff Daddy Combs "P. Daddy" TWICE!

Brightest part of my day.

[kmorgan]

There was another thread about the saddest tragedy in music... I'm thinking for me and my generation, this  very well may be it.

[Cristina]

Very  very sad news.

R.I.P