I'm not gonna pretend that the music of Michael Jackson means to me now what it did in my youth. But, wow - the biggest cultural icon of my adolescence is dead. Thriller was the first album I bought.
May he have some peace in death that he obviously didn't have in life.
Okay, now you're making me feel old. That was the 80s, for God's sake. "Boston" was the first album I bought for myself.
(I choose to ignore the unfortunate incident a couple months before that where I asked my parents for a album for my bithday, they got me a Rolling Stones (High Tides and Green Grass) album, and I promptly returned to the store and exchanged it for the Bay City Rollers album that I had wanted.)
Posted by: John C | June 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM