So the tours cancelled, yes?
I always fely sorry for him I suppose.

Never really a fan, I still had the odd track of his in my CD/MP3 collection, even though his antics really put me off during his 90's 'messiah' phase. But as for the kiddy fiddling I am not really sure what to believe, I feel in my bones that he was as much a victim as the kids. After all, 1 kid would have been suspicious but for a parade of parents to put their kids in danger all to be so outraged as to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum (a decent parent would havce seen it through to a conviction, or better still not send their child to play with Jackson in the first place). I suspect the truth was always somewhere in between.

So, yeah, another famous person has died, shame.

BUT. I still dont get the whole concept of gathering in front of TV cameras crying over the loss of someone you didn't really know and wailing your woes to the four winds on world-wide TV*.

* We'll actually I DO get it, and it has fuck-all to do with the person who just died and more to do with trying to jam your own moment of fame onto their life. Which makes you 'such a great fan'. Still he died like he lived, with people sponging off his fame and fortune.

Its a bit of a pisser for all those people who just bought grossly over-priced tickets on ebay after their limited (and over-priced) availability... Its not like he had a recent track record for being able to complete his tour dates anyway.

So RIP Jacko.

Sorry your dead.