timo fahler

the year was 1984(ish), my brother and i had not yet entered elementary school, so we spent our days playing hide-n-seek, swimming in pools, and break-dancing. MTV was strictly a music video channel, seems they are quite the opposite these days, whatever that is… anyway, back to my point, “thriller”, and “beat it” were all over the tv and radio back then, as was the hit single, “somebody’s watchin me” by some dude named rockwell and Michael, the king,, of pop,,, music,,,, duh. those were the days; moonwalks, backspins, parachute pants, a glove on one hand{was it the right or left?} and rat tails!(r.i.p. gregg “mr. wonderful” hernandez”) anyway, my brother, my cousins, and yours truly took our turns doin the electric bugaloo on the living room floor, products of the eighties, children of pop. Michael was truly the king, (madonna queen, and cindy lauper the estranged princess,,, again thats besides the point,) point is, the king is dead, will there ever be another? Most of us grew up and forgot about our king, we watched him grow old, his music went south(though “bad” was a pretty good album) and so did his rep. So the man liked to play with monkey’s, Mcualey Culkin and young children, the fact is we turned the king of pop into a weird sideshow, granted, he may have had a little bit to do with that himself. Now we all mourn the king, two years ago he was a pedophile, and a disgrace, this, “king of pop”. today he is a pioneer, a bronze figure, a KING. i forgot about michael as we all did, god his music was amazing though, anyway, all tears aside, here’s to Michael, the KING OF POP!!!!