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kelsey - 2009-06-26 16:32:29
That was great,thank you. It made me look at the whole situation in a different light.
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Eli - 2009-06-26 16:36:28
This death feels more like Elvis's than any other in my memory. I was a kid when Elvis died and got completely cought up in the hype. I taped Elvis concerts off the radio, read all about him, and played his music constantly. I was in my car this morning listening to MJ on the radio and I thought to myself this is pretty much how I felt back in '77.
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Erich Kuersten - 2009-06-30 16:18:43
I was a bit too young to be caught up in the Elvis death, but I do remember John Lennon's death in 1980 as having that same paralyzing effect, and it was perfect since he had so many anti-violence songs and all the lovely Beatles tunes - the radio played Beetles and solo Lennon around the clock and stars issued tastefully indirect tribute songs like Elton John's "must have been a gardener who cared a lot" and so forth. I remember sitting in our car on the way to Sunday school and Yoko Ono asked for a ten minute moment of silence and we all sat there in the car--wrapt in the unifying moment. But for Michael I don't feel much except relief, for him - he seemed terribly unhappy. For me it's the Jackson Five and "Against the Wall" - after that it's just unpleasant associations with those awful decades 1980s, the 1990s and the '00s
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