Michael Jackson 1958-2009 The death of a great performer. My personal thoughts

Jackson has been a force to reckon with since he came on to the scene in the later 1960's. He has been and will be for a long time the "King of Pop". He has had his score of troubles from marriage, children, sex abuse, and money.

But through it all he has remained a star of amazing proportions.

His fame is greater in many ways in Europe and Asia. I recall going through Singapore and having pointed out to me where he stayed and how he was so beloved there. In the United States he was always under pressure. Now that pressure is gone, and so is he.

A void is felt in the entertainment industry, that is only rivaled with perhaps the death of Elvis Presley. He was of a talent of which there are few.

All I can say is rest in peace and thank you for the many wonderful performances you have shared and left us. In many ways now with his death, he gains the peace that he never had in life. The court cases, the embarrassing charges of this and that, made his life so hard.

Now we say goodbye and thank you.

He will be for many of several generations always the king of pop. The album of " Thriller " sold more copies than any other in history! He was for the generation of the 80's and 90's like Elvis Presley was for the 50's and 60's.

He joins the ranks of great recording artists who will eternally entertain us. One can see how precious the art of recorded sound is, and how it saves for us the living person. Or to put it better, it is the closest thing to a time machine ever invented.

Michael Jackson is alive forever in the grooves of his records, in the magnetic pulses of his CD's and of course in the many films and videos in which he performs.

He now belongs to past, present, and to the future.