This is what is called "power of three." Yesterday announced the death at 86 years of Ed MacMahon, fellow comedian and host of variety show Late Night , Johnny Carson. Today, the day started with the news that Farrah Fawcett , the legendary beauty of Charlie's Angels, lost his fight against cancer at age 63.
And the day ends with the biggest impact of the year: Michael Jackson, the erstwhile King of Pop ", the most successful solo artist since Elvis Presley, had died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. He was found not breathing in his house, and paramedics tried to resuscitate him for an hour. Nothing, one of the most bizarre and unreal lives of the story was over two months to comply 51.
I had stopped listening to your music with any frequency in at least 14 years, but not lying to say that my life will never be the same now that Michael Jackson is gone.
When I was young, the phenomenon that corduroy, who started his life well really bold, bad hair and big nose and all believe it or not, just starting to take off. Just was having success with his brothers Marlon, Jermaine, Tito and Jackie, while they even had their own Comic Strip, something only the Beatles had achieved by then.
Soon after, Michael would go solo, and that's when I started listening by an aunt just ten years older than me who lived with us. He was 11 years and listened to this black-squeaky little voice and few guts like me. "Off The Wall" was one of the first songs I remember him.
(Did you know also that the man was in a movie? Happens that would not recognize until he opens his mouth and empeiza to dance: it was in the 1978 musical version of The Wizard of Oz The Wiz call with Diana Ross. Michael was the scarecrow. "Ease On Down The Road" era el tema principal.)
El tipo se estaba convirtiendo en un fenómeno poquito a poquito. Y de repente: Thriller , el disco. Nadie, y de verdad digo NADIE, puede comprender el impacto de este disco ahorita, y no ayuda que la edición de 25 años no fue el éxito que esperaban. Todo empezó con el doble golpe que fueron “Billie Jean” y “Beat It”, dos canciones cada una con su propia historia: la segunda por su legendario solo de guitara de Eddie Van Halen, y la primera porque durante una reunión de los Jackson 5, Michael presentó su famoso “ Moonwalk ”.
Then came the famous (is that all of this hell was famous) sequined glove, the Pepsi-Cola commercial 1984 to almost lose your hair, collaborations with Paul McCartney ("The Girl Is Mine ") and, of course, the song" Thriller, "which ended up being the most expensive music video ever.
Thriller took two more singles ("PYT (Pretty Young Thing)" and "Want to Be Starting Something") and found it to skinny the bargain of eight Grammy in 1984 (yes, it was almost two years of success).
true, then came four more albums ( Bad, Dangerous, HIStory Invincible and ) which of course had more success than all but the last, never exceeded Thriller. Then came the short film Captain EO to Epcot Center, and the movie Moonwalker . came thousands of surgeries that transformed it into a kind of androgynous. Came his strange eccentricities, like his friend Bubbles the chimp, all the Neverland ranch and the hyperbaric chamber. Marriage and, ahem, sincere kiss with Lisa Marie Presley. And of course, came all legal rolls.
Pero es el Michael Jackson que hizo que me aprendiera toda la coreografía de “Thriller” que hizo incluso ridiculizarme hasta un punto penoso, el que hizo que me aprendiera “Bad” y “Smooth Criminal”, el que cada vez que aparecía innovaba de alguna manera o demostraba que aún tenía algo que ofrecer (digan lo que quieran, pero en su último video, “You Rock My World”, el hombre juntó a Chris Tucker, Michael Madsen y Marlon “El padrino” Brando en un videoclip). El que le dio su primer trabajo como actor a Wesley Snipes (en el video de “Bad”). El que, más allá de sus miles de rollos mentales, fue un artista consumado, I knew how to create a simple magic that knew how to use videos, I was a dancer exceptional ... for many years accompanied us with great music.
His life was cut tragically, and now I can only hope to finally find the peace that eluded him safely over the years. Rest in peace, Jack.
