Friday, June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

The news of the death of the ex-son-in-law of the King of Rock & Roll has also brought with it a stream of emotional, witty and colourful status messages in Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Putting down some of them here.










Sravani Saha - "Plastic Surgeons have lost an ATM"

Naveen Venkataraman - "
There were only 2 Kings ever in show-business. And now they have both left the building."

Naveen Giles - "MJ Moonwalks into history, fans all over the world mourn him, everyone's listening to his songs one last time........and quizzers are getting ready scrambling for Micheal Jackson trivia ;-) !"

Sumant - "Celebrity Deathmatch in Hell: Michael Jackson v. Elvis Presley, to find out who the real King is. Once and for all."

Sanjay Gianchandani - "may his soul Moonwalk in peace..."

Nikhil Narayanan - "No *kid* ding, he is *History!"

Greatbong - "Someone says on NY Times "For my generation, the greatest moonwalk has nothing to do with NASA". How true."

Parry - "remembering all the endless hours spent watching the MJ videos on the VCR and practicing the moonwalk"

Rashmi Bansal - "The Michael Jackson we loved died many years ago... What went yesterday was just a pale shadow. May his soul rest in peace!"

Tarun Madan - "
Twitter down over too many MJ tweets !"

Personally I have never been much into western music, even less so MJs. But back in 1995 a Bengali children's magazine, Anandamela, carried a full feature on him and I remember being in awe of the legend and his story for quite some time after reading it, especially the bit about the video games in his Neverland Ranch. The other snippets of memory I have about him is the media circus that took place when he was in India in 1996 and many of our Bollywood stars, starlets and others alike prostrated themselves before him! And how everyone thought that s/he was the first one to think of the 'Mai Ka Lal Jai Kishan' translated version of his name! And of course that famous TOI picture during the 2007 world cup comparing SRK's looks with that of Michael!

All said and done he was a global icon, and shall be missed. God bless his soul.

6 comments:

saurish said...

I guess MJ had a strong enough identity of his own.
There is no reason of him reffered to as Lisa Mary's Ex husband.

Suhel Banerjee said...

@Saurish - Tchah! That wouldn't add to the charm of King of Pop-King of Rock Pa in law-son-in-law relationship.

Unknown said...

great one Suhel. :)

Suman Paul said...

"Mai Ka Lal Jai Kishan" it sure does indianise the whole persona of MJ

Anonymous said...

We all love you Michele. Thank you for giving your unforgettable music

Suhel Banerjee said...

@Sravs - Thanks:)

@Suman - Yes, much like Chicken Manchurian.

@Anonymous - :)