Whatever musical achievements Jacko leaves behind pale into insignificance when you remember the negative media coverage he has bee party to over the last few years. Despite hanging babies from balconies, ‘fathering’ three children from an anonymous donor and making them wear masks and that thing about him being a child molester, he still has a lot of fans. Maybe Gary Glitter should have hired his PR man. (I know he was found not guilty, but if you were a billionaire paedophile you’d build a funfair in your back garden wouldn’t you?)
Despite living the last ten years on the verge of bankruptcy, this doesn’t seem to have had any effect on his spending and his influence on people who enjoy writing cheques to bonkers pop stars. He lost Neverland, but someone put him up in Dubai, he kept borrowing against his songs and could obviously afford a shit hot legal team to get him out of the kiddie fiddler shit. The same legal team who are working on Stevie Wonder’s driving licence and Ronnie Corbett’s discrimination case against the Harlem Globetrotters.
I channel hopped between BBC News, CNN and Sky News where I realised that rolling news isn’t really as good as it looks as sooner or later you need padding. The 60 second bulletin on BBC3 would have wrapped it up nicely with a cheery “Michael Jackson is dead, now here’s Two Pints of Lager”
It is a long held cliché in the music business that death is a career move, Lennon, Presley, Sinatra, Cobain, B.I.G and others all sell more music now than when they were alive.
Michael Jackson never wanted to do those O2 arena gigs, but he sold them all out didn’t he? Then cancelled. Financial troubles would surely have been solved with a money spinning run at the former Millennium Dome bringing in a few quid left over for some bottles of Jesus Juice. But now it’s a win win situation. The fans who bought tickets will get a refund, the venue had already taken out an insurance policy against Jackson not appearing, and sales of his albums, (and legal downloads of his singles) will go absolutely ballistic. Worth listening to the top forty this Sunday eh?
Money troubles over in one Reggie Perrin style clean slate?
It is a long held cliché in the music business that death is a career move, Lennon, Presley, Sinatra, Cobain, B.I.G and others all sell more music now than when they were alive.
Michael Jackson never wanted to do those O2 arena gigs, but he sold them all out didn’t he? Then cancelled. Financial troubles would surely have been solved with a money spinning run at the former Millennium Dome bringing in a few quid left over for some bottles of Jesus Juice. But now it’s a win win situation. The fans who bought tickets will get a refund, the venue had already taken out an insurance policy against Jackson not appearing, and sales of his albums, (and legal downloads of his singles) will go absolutely ballistic. Worth listening to the top forty this Sunday eh?
Money troubles over in one Reggie Perrin style clean slate?
