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The legendary “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson passed away a little after noon on Thursday. He was at his home where paramedics rushed over to revive him, but were not successful. He suffered from a cardiac arrest. Michael Jackson was only 50 years old.

I’ve had so many good memories of Michael Jackson. I remember listening to him on the radio. I tried singing along as best as I could. I still try. I even remember days where I tried to mimic his signature “Moonwalk”. As you can imagine, I am still unsuccessful in trying to copy the great move. The one thing I know is that I will always forever be a fan of his. His music always brought life to any party.

There were some situations that I found myself twiddling my thumbs, amongst company at a party or a night on the town and it never failed that once a Michael Jackson beat is dropped everyone goes crazy. It’s something about his music that makes people want to sing, dance, groove, moonwalk or even scream. Ever since I was young my head would always bob to the beat and rhythm of his songs.

Amongst his many songs that he’s sung I like almost every one of them; however, there were a lot that I don’t quite like as much. Nevertheless, my all time favorites come mainly from the 80s. My favorite songs are: “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough”, “Rock With You”,  “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin”, “The Girl Is Mine”, “Beat It”, “Billy Jean”, “Human Nature”, “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Man in the Mirror”,   “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, “Black or White”, “Heal The World”, and  “You Are Not Alone”.

A few songs Michael sang that I like, but were not specifically under his own label were: “Can You Feel It” and “Shake Your Body Down” with The Jackson 5 and “Say Say Say” with Paul McCartney

Some other songs that I liked, but not overly enthusiastic about are “Smooth Criminal”, “Bad”,  “Jam”, and “Remember The Time”.

So much can be said and done about Michael Jackson’s life, but all we can do now is to keep his legacy alive of great music and what it has allowed for change to have happened. He is loved by many and I hope that future generations can appreciate what he’s done to the music world. He is a music icon that will be missed, but forever etched into the record books.