Michael Jackson I want him to remember his face he had when I met him. It happened on my first trip to America, 1974, in an America where there was Motown and when I was finished, thirteen, to accompany my mother and my grandparents on a wonderful journey - an initiation, you should say - that would have brought to Manhattan, Boston, Niagara Falls, Rochester and Albany, but also because it is America, too. Discs bought in a frenzy, almost compulsively, even then, saving on vanilla ice cream. I remember that I put in my suitcase first trophies Americans: a hat plastic bumpers of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball signed by my cousin Dave Giusti (Pirates who had been a pillar in the sixties), a wood bat in the Adirondack and a lot of 33 laps.
still have everything: the ball when my account is in red have tried to put it on Ebay (also because it contains a number of technical details of that memorable Pirates-Cardinals San Diego on May 18, 1969), no disks. If anything, then bought them on CD. I did it for "Got To Be There" (1972) by Michael Jackson a long time ago because the vinyl, on which the adhesive is still "recommended by Diana Ross, "croaks that is a beauty.
I had sympathy that face GIRL. I remember another of my older cousin, in Seneca Falls, played repeatedly, "Is not No Sunshine": I found her beautiful and went out to buy the disc. It's beautiful because there is only a piece of Bill Withers, but "Got To Be There" and the most beautiful "You've Got A Friend" you can hear. It 's a Seventies soul still intact, the afro hair and huge machines. Nothing gold teeth, tattoos and necklaces of a kilo ostentatious use today as one of the stars of rap and Nu Soul. Michael was candid and full of good brothers who sang like him. Watching them on television was a poem. Then, after becoming the king of pop songs with beautiful but already several ("Billie Jean" "Thriller," "Human Nature" and everything else), Jacko became white and there was only the skin, which Jackson worked obsessively bleaching. So when he started mostrificarsi was a pain that I was not interested to participate. Mask on the mouth, the many mysteries of Neverland as his white children and those who may have never heard an album of Jackson 5 because it was the other heritage life, that - for some reason - refused.
Michael Jackson died a few hours ago. So, I am a romantic, I put on "Got To Be There", with all the ingenuity and the orchestrations. It makes me think that even with these songs are not finished working in a ministry. There's one, cute, I did not remember. We seem to hear Zie Supremes "Baby Love" and also does away the tear, it is titled "Love is here and now you're gone."
Love, Michael. And try not to feel too lonely there as well.
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