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Sat 06 Jun 2009Fallen idol
As a songwriter, singer and dancer, Michael Jackson was an undoubted genius and the most important pop-music figure since Elvis Presley. As a man, his tragedy was that he was denied a childhood and, in his untimely death, was deprived of a full adulthood too
THE CHILD STAR deprived of a childhood has become the adult deprived of adulthood. The tragic irony of Michael Jackson’s untimely demise at the age of 50 is that in three weeks he was supposed to have been launching a spectacular comeback with a series of shows at London’s 02 Arena. Now, in keeping with the pattern established by the early deaths of Elvis and John Lennon, the comeback will be huger than anyone could ever have expected.
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