Comments on: City of New York won’t name subway station after Michael Jackson http://woooha.com/2009/08/city-of-new-york-wont-name-subway-station-after-michael-jackson/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Degan http://woooha.com/2009/08/city-of-new-york-wont-name-subway-station-after-michael-jackson/comment-page-1/#comment-8145 Tom Degan Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:11:21 +0000 http://woooha.com/?p=4205#comment-8145 We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was - beyond a shadow of a doubt - a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: "It's always the courtiers that kill the king". The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson. http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com Tom Degan Goshen, NY We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was – beyond a shadow of a doubt – a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: “It’s always the courtiers that kill the king”.

The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson.

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

]]> By: E-Rod http://woooha.com/2009/08/city-of-new-york-wont-name-subway-station-after-michael-jackson/comment-page-1/#comment-8136 E-Rod Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:37:00 +0000 http://woooha.com/?p=4205#comment-8136 i second that - too many hipsters will be coming to the BK and reliving the video. let it alone. i second that – too many hipsters will be coming to the BK and reliving the video. let it alone.

]]> By: m@ http://woooha.com/2009/08/city-of-new-york-wont-name-subway-station-after-michael-jackson/comment-page-1/#comment-8134 m@ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:51:35 +0000 http://woooha.com/?p=4205#comment-8134 Good. This saves us from all the douchebags getting off and recreating the Bad video. Good. This saves us from all the douchebags getting off and recreating the Bad video.

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