Get a life

This is going a bit far. "Too Soon" for what? Jackson's career ended after "Thriller," which really wasn't very good anyway. Some of the Jackson 5 cuts are decent, but this guy is mostly notable for being fucked up. His main cultural contribution is to have led people to believe that music and dancing are the same thing, though they clearly are not. And what about the allegations of child molestation? Sure, he was never convicted, and we'll never know how accurate they were, but there's something funky about having young boys sleep in your bedroom when you are a middle-aged man. I know, he was tucking them in, giving them hot milk and cookies, but this explanation seems thin. Would you believe such justifications if they came from your spouse? The halo on the shirt seems awfully misguided. This guy was so mentally ill that he made Howard Hughes look like Deepak Chopra. I still feel bad about John Lennon, not a saint but a real human being with gleaming qualities and sharp scratchy faults, genuine wit, humor and compassion. As well as supreme talent. I never understood the Jackson phenomenon in the early 80's and its maintenance so many years later is baffling.

I'll say one thing though: the guy was sick and lonely, and for that reason I feel sorry for him.