Prominente und Wegbegleiter zum Tode von Michael Jackson (Keine Diskussionen)

Elizabeth Taylor

She says, "My heart … my mind are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together."

Taylor was even planning to attend his live concert comeback, "I was packing up my clothes to go to London for his opening when I heard the news. I still can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It can't be so."
She continued that Michael "will live in my heart forever, but it's not enough. My life feels so empty."

"I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest, most giving love I've ever known. Oh God! I'm going to miss him. I can't yet imagine life with out him. I guess with God’s help … I'll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, 'To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.' And, I will love HIM forever," Taylor said of their special relationship.

nochmal Barack Obama

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President Barack Obama was 21 years old when singer Michael Jackson moon-walked across the stage of a Motown anniversary celebration, in 1983.

His White House staff remembers that moonwalk.

But the president had no public comment today for the passing of the 50-year-old pop icon. Obama left that to his spokesman.

"I talked to him about it this morning,'' Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said of the president and the pop-star. "He said to me that obviously Michael Jackson was a spectacular performer, a music icon. I think everybody remembers hearing his songs, watching him moonwalk on television during Motown's 25th anniversary.

"But the president also said, you know, look, he had... aspects of his life were sad and tragic. (The president's) condolences went out to the Jackson family and to fans that mourned his loss.'' (Not an actual call, Gibbs said, but rather a public wish.)

Why no written statement, as is sometimes issued in the passing of a famous personality?

"Because I just said it,'' Gibbs said.

Obama, who played host to Stevie Wonder in a recent White House performance honoring a musician who had served as a mentor and producer for Michael Jackson, apparently had never met Jackson himself. Obama has called Wonder's music "the soundtrack of my youth.'' But Gibbs says he doesn't believe Obama and Jackson ever met.

Gibbs was asked why the White House, pressed for a comment and silent last night, was offering one today. "I think we said there wasn't going to be a statement,'' he said. "So... I asked the president what he thought about it today and, as his spokesman, passed that along to you."

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Serena Williams

Speaking at a press conference following her 6-3 6-4 victory over Italy's Roberta Vinci, the Number Two seed said: "Words can't express my shock and horror, just thoughts and prayers that go out to him and his family.

"It's just a terrible, terrible, terrible thing...Michael Jackson, everyone listens to his music. It's like you think of the Beatles, you think of Elvis Presley, you think of Michael Jackson, those are just lifetime icons that I have never forgotten.

"The things that he did was beyond iconic."

"I have met him a few times, I was honoured. He had such a great heart and wonderful kids. You know, it's just really a shame."

"Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and – it really goes without saying – a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us." -- Martin Scorsese, who directed the video for "Bad"

Randy Phillips, AEG Live CEO

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"Yesterday was a day I will never forget, or want to remember. Michael was both weak and strong, clever and kind, talented beyond belief and equally insecure. He was a doting father, respectful son, loving brother, and caring uncle. He was my friend. I take great solace in the pride and confidence he exhibited during production rehearsals on Wednesday night. That is the memory I will cherish for the rest of my life."

Quelle: HornyForMike, MJJC

Karen Faye schrieb zu den Gründen seines Comebacks bei Facebook:

I know how painful it is to loose this beautiful man....I can barely speak, but I must share with you his reason for getting on stage once again. It wasn't for money or to relaunch his career...it was to send the message that we must HEAL THE WORLD, before it's too late. He wanted to let us know that we have a four year window to get it right, to start walking the highest path, or we will loose the earth.

Will I am Video message...

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50 Cent won the race to release a tribute song by slapping a sample from "I Wanna Be Where You Are" on prerecorded track and tweeting it.

Fred Durst dressed up as MJ , rather awkwardly.

The New York Times has a nice interactive global map showing comments and reactions from readers in different countries.

John McWhorter, The New Republic:
The problem was that as he got older, parts seemed to be all there was; the whole became increasingly difficult to perceive. The skin bleaching was strange enough — and his telling Oprah that it was vitiligo and expecting to be believed even stranger. Here was a black man — and one who was a megastar — actually using the kinds of products that look so peculiar and degrading in ancient black newspaper advertisements today. And then the facial surgery, which made him look not only whiter but more feminine.

The question, which he never even ventured an answer to, was why. Who was this personage supposed to be? White? Gay? Perhaps we were to allow that he was just being "him." But leaving unanswered just who that "him" was supposed to be was, most charitably interpreted, too far ahead of our times. It left him a faintly gruesome cipher.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic:

"Ray Lewis may well be an accessory to a man's murder. But when I watch him run up and down field on Sunday, it sparks something in me. Woody Allen wooed his wife's adopted daughter, and may well be a child molester. But I think Bananas makes me laugh. Mike Tyson is, among other things, a convicted rapist. But I had not lived until I saw him demolish Trevor Berbick. And so on ...

I guess I could peel these people out my life. I guess I could stop separating art from men. Regrettably, I think, I wouldn't be left with much art worth admiring. Sometimes awful people, do beautiful things. One doesn't cancel the other. And mourning the loss of human life, does not excuse the sins of that life."
Hua Hsu, The Atlantic:

Jackson was one of the last figures of our time who could, in his very presence, describe the possibilities of pop. He wasn't just the King — he was the entire domain, the rules and regulations, the dream-horizon of the citizenry, the place where the land met the heavens. Jackson was one of the first (and last) artists whose new videos, tours and albums were actual, global events, as when he debuted his "Black or White" video in 1991 after an episode of The Simpsons. This was the cultural history of the pre-digital age: simultaneity, mass worship, millions sitting in front of their TVs at the exact same moment. (The closest analogue now: millions around the world, sitting in front of their computers, carefully recomposing Michael's Wikipedia entry the moments after his death was made official.)

Jody Rosen, Slate:

Jackson was a confessional artist; he always started with the man in the mirror. Though he aimed bigger and broader than any pop star before or since — he wanted every single person in the world to buy his records — he never compromised. His music is the strangest and darkest ever to achieve blockbuster success; by comparison, Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, and Madonna are positively milquetoast. Consider some song titles: "Bad," "Dangerous," "Leave Me Alone," "Blood on the Dance Floor," "Scream," "In the Closet," "Cry," "The Lost Children," "Threatened." Repulsion, sexual anxiety, implacable sadness, violence, terror, celebrity stalking — these were his great themes.

Chuck Eddy, Rhapsody:

Michael Jackson never quite seemed mortal until today. He spent at least 40 of his 50 years trying to escape from his past and his fears and his race and his self, and at least 30 of those 50 years singing about it, and today, he finally found the door out. Michael Freedberg, the great disco critic from the Boston Phoenix, said once that Michael lived Robert Johnson's life in the plain view of everyone on earth, always watching out for hellhounds over his shoulder.

Tom Ewing, FreakyTrigger:

Jackson’s brutalisation by his father is the kind of horror story we associate with the worst parts of pro sport — the mechanisation of ability in a drive for perfection. It’s rarer in showbiz, because the structure of success is looser. Michael Jackson’s success — and what success! - sits on a double fluke: that he managed to funnel his talent through his dehumanisation, and that the public responded in such phenomenal numbers to his unique perspective.

That success led to a second dehumanisation, which Jackson himself colluded in. Here am I, writing what might have been an obituary type piece, and all I can think about are history and abstractions: the real, dead man is too remote. The Jackson it’s easy to empathise with fell into shadow a long time ago. When I heard about his death the music I wanted to play wasn’t Off The Wall, or Thriller, but the strange, sad, overblown records he made in the 90s — overshadowed by headlines and accusations, but home to some of the oddest and darkest pop of any era.

John Marshall, TPM:

Found myself more shocked than I usually am by these things ... not sadder or more upset, but more shocked. And I was thinking last night, what feels different about this?

I think it's because so much of Michael Jackson's life seemed like make believe. Sometimes farcical. But always like play acting, somehow. So much theatrics. So many costumes. And on various levels the desire — often frighteningly realized — to deny or defy his physical self, his age and much more. Even the things that seemed terribly serious, perhaps especially those — the trials for child molestation which could have landed him in jail for years or decades — never seemed to stick. Whether he was truly guilty of these accusations or not, it always blew over. All together it conditioned me to think of Jackson as someone whose drama was always just drama — whether it was the threat of prison or vast debts or bizarre physical tribulations — all of it would pass or blow over, perhaps not even have been real, leaving him more or less in place, as weird or surreal as ever, but basically unchanged.

M.I.A., Rolling Stone: “MICHAEL JACKSON the first 2 english words i eva spoke . the future sucx!”

MC Hammer (via Twitter):
I have no words.. I loved Michael Jackson.. RIP..
12:35 AM Jun 26th from web

I will be mourning my friend , brother, mentor and inspiration.. He gave me and my family hope. I would never have been me without him.
12:48 AM Jun 26th from web

For every Memory in your life that His music gave You may we all offer him dignity and respect as a token ? Respect The Dancer...RIP MJ
about 21 hours ago from web

The dance of hope and the melody of freedom permeated from him,can we give him a moment of dignity in transition as a token of appreciation?
about 21 hours ago from web

Wounds of broken trust heal slowly, somehow he sung through the pain notes of Joy for Us and we beheld the beauty of his dance in our souls
about 21 hours ago from web

Boris Becker: „Meine Lieblingssongs sind ‚Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough‘ und ‚Human Nature‘. Er war eine Ikone der 80er-Jahre. Als ich vom Tod erfahren habe, war ich geschockt."

Dieter Bohlen: „Seine Musik wird unvergessen bleiben. Ich bin mir sicher, dass er in einigen Jahren den gleichen Stellenwert wie Elvis Presley haben wird.“

Schauspielerin Kirstie Alley: „Michael , du bist der ,King of Pop‘ und du wirst es immer sein. Jetzt schlaf erst einmal gut, aber komm bald wieder und lass dein Licht über uns alle scheinen. Wir beten für dich.“

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John Legend auf Twitter:

one of the few times i've ever been truly starstruck...

Interview mit Thomas Gottschalk:

"Jackson war gespaltene Persönlichkeit"

Darren Hayes via Twitter:

"My hero. I loved you. You made my world a better place. I am devastated."

KEINE diskussionen hier, dazu gibt es diesen thread:

http://www.jvillage.de/board/m…ist-von-uns-gegangen.html

[EDIT] Mann, bin ich blöd. Ich wollte den Artikel hier posten, sorry. Danke Mods.

Ich poste den Artikel einfach ohne zu kommentieren.

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Jetzt hat sich auch seine Ex-Frau zum Tod von Michael Jackson geäußert. Auf ihrem „Myspace“-Blog erzählt Lisa Marie Presley (41), dass er sich davor gefürchtet hat, so zu enden wie ihr Vater Elvis. Dieser starb 1977 im Alter von 42 Jahren plötzlich an einem Herzstillstand.

Während einem vertrauten Gespräch über den Tod ihres Vaters, soll der King of Pop diese Befürchtung geäußert haben: „Ich habe Angst, dass ich so enden werde wie er, auf die gleiche Weise.“ Es scheint als hätte Michael Jackson damals schon geahnt, dass er jung einen plötzlichen Tod sterben wird. Wie damals bei Elvis verbreitete sich auch bei seinem Ableben die Nachricht in wenigen Stunden um die ganze Welt - „Der King ist tot!“

Darüber hinaus versichert seine ehemalige Frau, dass ihre Ehe keine Scheinbeziehung war: „Es war eine ungewöhnliche Beziehung, in der zwei ungewöhnliche Menschen, die kein normales Leben kannten, eine Verbindung fanden. (…) Ich glaube daran, dass er mich so sehr geliebt hat, wie er jemanden lieben konnte und auch ich habe ihn sehr geliebt. (…) Ich wollte ihn vor dem Unvermeidbaren „retten“, das jetzt passiert ist.“

Lisa und Michael gaben sich 1994 das Ja-Wort, ließen sich allerdings nach nicht einmal eineinhalb Jahren wieder scheiden.

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Den ganzen Text von Lisa-Marie findet ihr auf ihrer myspace Seite:

LMP Myspace: He knew

Mit einem 1:0 im Halbfinale gegen Italien sicherten sich die deutschen Nachwuchstalente die Final-Teilnahme der U-21 Europameisterschaft.

In der Kabine gab es dann in Dauerschleife einen der Größten Jackson-Hits "Billie Jean" zu hören.

Alle Spieler sangen laut mit und erwiesen ***** auf diese Weise Respekt.

Martin Bashir:

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Interview mit Spike Lee (Regisseur von "They Don't Care About Us"):

http://www.time.com/time/arts/…0.html?xid=rss-topstories