I think I have a post vacation syndrome which has turned into a (hopefully and likely) temporary Michael Jackson obsession. After seeing Thriller Live and buying the t-shirt (image: taking it for a spin at Tyger Tyger in London) I have also bought a biography and downloaded a documentary from 2003. The biography is called Michael Jackson – The Magic and the Madness and is really well written and seem fairly objective.  The documentary paints a very sad and deranged image and was called a PR-disaster by people working for MJ.

Well, Michael Jackson’s life IS a very sad story in many ways. His father’s physical and mental abuse put deep scars in MJ, resulting in an obsession  with the shape of his nose - he felt it resembled his father’s and through countless of operations he managed to destroy a good-looking face.

After reading up on MJ it becomes quite apparent that the charges of pedophilia are untrue and that MJ was an asexual child with many mental problems deriving from a tough childhood and a weird life spent always being in the spotlight. There was only one place where he felt truly comfortable and that was on stage.   

Off the stage MJ was extremely shy and in many ways remained a child for all of his life. He loved playing and kept “Neverland” much like a playground, trying to regain some of the childhood he never had. He is the greatest pop legend that ever lived, but many will remember him with mixed feelings due to his extreme plastic surgery, the dangling-child-over-balcony-scandal, the rumours of pedophilia, and the other weird things that happened in his life.

I will remeber him with the sadness and fondness and can only hope that he has found some peace in his soul now.

We will see how my soul feels when I get back to the office on Monday.

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