comparing it to Jade Goody (who?) and Diana (pretty but...).

Michael touched lives and brought happiness.

I have friends with very small children who are devastated. He sang for them, danced for them, gave them something magical nobody else has since, probably, Hans Christian Anderson.

I don't mind the jokes. I did mind the haters who wanted to rip him apart (and, I think, succeeded).

JK2006 wrote:
comparing it to Jade Goody (who?) and Diana (pretty but...).

Michael touched lives and brought happiness.

I have friends with very small children who are devastated. He sang for them, danced for them, gave them something magical nobody else has since, probably, Hans Christian Anderson.

I don't mind the jokes. I did mind the haters who wanted to rip him apart (and, I think, succeeded).

You have to allow people to have opinions JK and not everyone liked him. He hasn't made a decent record for more than 20 years and his behaviour has been very unsavoury to say the least.

Typical arrogant response from someone without a decent brain cell.

"He hasn't made a decent record in 20 years" ?

"Remember The Time" Not a decent record ?
"You Are Not Alone" Not a decent record ?
"Rock My World" Not a decent record ?

Michael's flops = Hits for everyone else.

If you're prepared to slag off Jackson be prepared to be slagged off yourself.

Idiot !

Michael was the GREaTEST pop performer ever. It is simple as that. Sorry but he is 10000000 times better than ELVIS or THE BEATLES.

He never made a bad record. I love some of his later stuff just as much as the early stuff - it always meant something and lyrically it got better in the last 20 years.

His detractors are jealous of him. There are thankfully very few - and they repeat the same rubbish about him pushed by some jealous tabloid editors.

Michael brought LOVE into music and into the World. He was unique in that respect - only John Lennon coming anywhere near him. He actually had a message in his music - he connected with children and adults in a way that was beyond belief.

If you ever went to his shows you would know how special he was.

Michael made my life better - and there are few in entertainment that I can say that about. JK Is totally correct.

He is more important than DIANA - ST JADE and all the other TABLOID creations put together. He raised more money for charity than all of them put together as well with his music.

But more than any of that - he tried to love humanity and spread that message. He said he wanted to be like Jesus in that interview released today by NOTW. I actually believe that - he showed what it is like to follow the lead of Jesus and Ghandhi and Martin Luther King. Sadly there are EVIL FORCES in the world who seek to KILL PEOPLE who spread the Gospel of Love. Michael was a victim of these forces at the end.

he was spreading something, check out the Jordy transcripts (available only in Mexico) $25 million dollars later MJ learns the hard way to pay for sex or you will pay for sex..

The man was good, lost his way, became bad and was a child molester, by any stretch of any fan's imagination.

This deification by BR is REALLY TASTELESS.

People constantly over rate the importance of politicians and civil servants (after their deaths most are forgotten) and under rate those entertainers who bring us joy.

Writers, performers, artistes - they live forever and it's quite right they are mourned.

Prime Ministers? Who gives a fuck?

JonG wrote:
Typical arrogant response from someone without a decent brain cell.

"He hasn't made a decent record in 20 years" ?

"Remember The Time" Not a decent record ?
"You Are Not Alone" Not a decent record ?
"Rock My World" Not a decent record ?

Michael's flops = Hits for everyone else.

If you're prepared to slag off Jackson be prepared to be slagged off yourself.

Idiot !

An Idiot who earns 70k a year from a regular hours job, has a degree from a top university and doesn't hide behind fake identities on an internet forum

Quite a few Prime Ministers are remembered.

Churchill, Lloyd George, Disraeli ... and I'm sure Mrs Thatcher will not soon be forgotten. But otherwise I take your point.

I never understand why people are so determined that Michael Jackson was a child molester. It's become an obsession.

I think if I had billions and was facing the most terrifying ordeal which I thought I could make go away for only a few million, and if I was as fragile a personality as Michael Jackson was, I might have paid up too. That alone is not evidence of guilt.

At the beginning of the current frenzie to accuse everyone who is anyone of child abuse, we were watching Oprah's interview with Michael Jackson when my friend turned to me and said "They'll target him next." That was in 1993.

"Man shall not live by degrees, money or vanity" especially if their comments betray their so called intelligence. Glad to know we agree on something.

Everyone is entitled to their view about Michael Jackson.

He was a great pop performer and now holds the record for most singles in any one chart - a record that will probably never be broken.

In addition he was positive about the World.

He was never convicted of Child Molesting - and the cases against him have been proved to be "money" making exercises.

Was he strange ? Yes.

Is it wrong to not conform ?

Some of you on here are so SQUARE and so wanting everyone to be the same you have been brainwashed by the NWO media into thinking there is a right way to "be" whereas it is better for us all to express our GOD GIVEN CREATIVITY in our lives.

At the moment we are organised loosely as SLAVES to money with a few people at the TOP lording it over us.
The CIVIL SERVICE is a classic example of LEVELS ( as is FREEMASONS etc ) They just replicate a CLASS SYSTEM which values people by their WEALTH and their NORMALNESS. Not their gifts and talents and the fact that GOD made us all in HIS image.

All of us are equal - yes all of us. Whether we have THREE DEGREES or NO DEGREES - whether we went to CAMBRIDGE like JK and myself - or a COMPREHENSIVE. We are all the same - we all can love and feel pain.

Michael understood this and his fans come from every walk of life.

I agree totally with JK that ENTERTAINERS often do more than any politician in bringing LOVE and HAPPINESS to people.

Finally - no one is perfect. Not one of us. We all have a "bad" side - we are all capable of being selfish - that is our human free will. So to judge anyone is wrong. What gives anyone the right to judge >? God will ultimately decide what happens to us - those of us who LOVE and LIVE will hopefully be judged well. Hopefully we will have made the most of this life.

Maybe God doesn't exist mate. It's a possibility.

It's more of a defecation, really.

Michael was great at surrounding himself with people who were at the top of their craft.

His 80s male counterpart Prince was far more innovative, supremely talented and, as far as I know, he doesn't play with young boys.

Any way you look at it, his association with little boys was dubious. Let's not whitewash him.

I've met kids who are massive Michael fans and you know what? The question never was "did he or didn't he?". It was "who cares?".

Michael's music and performances were superb. How he spent private hours was not in the equation.

Mentally, Michael Jackson was still a child and when he spent time with boys it was no different to any other two boys hanging out. Many of the boys remained his friends into adulthood. It's standard to demonise people who do not conform to what others call the norm. He was different and not easy to classify, but when allegations against him were put to a real test in court he was cleared of wrongdoing. I'm sure that if he'd been found guilty his critics would have told us that we must trust the decision of the court, so they must trust the decision of the court now that he has been found not guilty.

His music and his charity work are factual and easily proven. These are what we should remember him for, not idle or malicious gossip.

First of all I am not comparing Michael Jackson with our Lord Jesus Christ but some of you on this board and others really try my patience.

Jesus loved little children and once had a child sit on his knee. SW and others like him would be calling Jesus a paedophile because he was a single man who cared about kids and associated with them.

Now Michael Jackson made an error of judgement by allowing children into his home because of judgemental paedophile witch-hunters out there. Now wait until you become elderly SW when as a result of the eradication of natural human love for children, the kids of today grow up as uncaring brutes who will be knocking on your door and bashing you on the head.

If you had evidence the Michael Jackson was a paedophile, why didn't you present it in a court of law so a jury of his peers would have found him guilty, instead of smearing him on a messageboard.

And at last the meejah and the tabloids have realised... the vast majority loved Michael for his superb music and don't care about the haters.

And coverage is suddenly positive.

I found out after my release - 99% of total strangers were supportive and nice and decent.

But we just don't bother to speak out most of the time (it's not a good story) until a major tragedy or event forces us to shout.

Lets face it, celebrity gets you everywhere and in this fickle world we live in its easy to forget the "bad" stuff because of the success and adoration fame brings. I can't be the only one finds it strange that he never showed an interest in girls. He may have been the King of Pop but Mother Theresa he aint.

I don't recall Jesus being accused of molesting young boys. Exactly what chapter in the Bible refers to that?

"He never showed any interest in girls"?... his sweet little daughter in his memorial seemed to care a lot for her Dad... those focussing on that vile word SEX are displaying their own hangups, that sex is wrong and bad and that anyone showing affection is a pervert (Satan's Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction).

Just one of the many indications that the species is becoming self destructive.

"Condemn the act that brings us into the world".

Artificial Insemination is the way to ultimate extinction.