Michael Jackson's last career move

Richard Littlejohn:

When the head of RCA Records was told that Elvis had died, he is said to have remarked: 'Great career move.'

His modern counterpart at Sony must have entertained similar sentiments after being informed that Michael Jackson had popped his pumps.

Since the news of Wacko Jacko's death Twittered out of Los Angeles, his albums have gone platinum all over again. The megastore shelves have been stripped bare, the Amazons and eBays looted of Jackson memorabilia.

People who hadn't bought a Michael Jackson CD for a quarter of a century, some who had never possessed a Michael Jackson record, were suddenly overcome with a compelling urge to fill their boots with his back catalogue.

For some unfathomable reason, they felt a primeval need to touch the hem of his garment, to lay their hands on a piece of the legend, to be able to tell their grandchildren that they were there; to give them something to occupy their attention until the next series of Britain's Got Talent.

The inconvenient fact that this was someone they didn't know, who lived on a compound thousands of miles away, wasn't going to stand between them and their inalienable right to emote in public.

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There is more about the public "outpouring."

I know I listened to Billie Jean for the first time since the early 80s. While his performance was still impressive on YouTube, the song itself is pretty dated. I kept thinking that Billie Jean needed to be pushing for a DNA paternity test on a jerk trying to avoid responsibility. With the certainty of modern testing the song loses some of its mystery and punch.

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