I think the press are too hard on him, the uproar about him holding his baby over the balcony, well with the other kids he tossed them off!

Believe it or not, I was in the Michael Jackson fan club when I was 5. My first record was a Motown single with "Ben" on one side and "You can cry on my shoulder" on the other. The Jackson 5 was my first LP.

I saw him in concert back in the 80's. It was a fantastic show. It's a crying shame that such a marvelously talented entertainer grew up to be such a freak of nature.

He's the typical liberal: infected with self-hatred.

But he pretends to love himself, the world, and little children. What a sick and sorry piece of work!

I concur to that. The 'artist' clearly hasn't got anything better to do. Personally I'm not at all convinced of his guilt in the child abuse cases. I think Jackon is naieve on an almost childish level, the court cases being the result of some sick people taking advantage of that.

not convinced?......takes all sorts I suppose.

I watched him morph from a pretty neat young man into the thing he is now. It is sickening, but his father was a super control freak and I think his naivete is incredible, given his global superstar status. No one can be that dumb unless they are sheltered and manipulated. Elvis Presley is another one that comes to mind...the hold the Colonel had on him cost him his life.

'Thriller' was an outstanding video and the album was and still is phenomenal.

The jacko fanclub meets here...who would have thought?

Well, back in the late 70s, before he became weird, he was decent. I am not a fan of his per se, but his talent was undeniable. 'Thriller' will be 25 years old, and if that was one of his last good albums, that means he has neither produced much of his own work or his Muse has departed.

"There's what you know and what you can prove."

Jacko is a child molester at worst and a wanna-be child molester at best. He belongs in a treatment facility for the rest of his life under 24 hour suicide watch.

His music from childhood through his mid-20's was not merely remarkable - it was visionary talent that transformed a generation. The squandering of his God-given gifts makes the tragedy of his self-hatred that much more tragic.

This tells the story:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WaterCooler/popup?id=3838071&contentIndex=1&page=3&start=false