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RIP Jackson

I guess we all have memories from him and his carrer and how it has affected us. And instead of posting a wheeping melodram I'll retell the two events from his carreer that I remember the most.

1. It was the summer when Thriller was just out. And I taped the record to bring with me to my parents summer house. Everyone who was around in the 70:ies, 80:ies and early 90:es do remember the cassette tapes. (And you can still buy them in special shops here). I taped Thriller on an ordinary BASF tape and did we play it the whole summer. And in the end the tape had had it and snapped. I had brought it over to my neighbours place and they had no tape player in their cottage but used the car stereo if they wanted to listen to something. The idea was to put in a tape and then open all the doors and turn the music up. Only that my Thriller tape broke So I had to talk my daddy into tape it anew and bring it with him when he came down the next weekend.

2. I was in the US and me and my mother stayed together in a hotel outside Hartford in Conneticut. And I remember how my mother as well became totally enchanted by his show. The moon walk the dance, the music - everything. And that was a great experience.

I never got the chance to see him live though. The few times he visited Sweden didn't really fit with my schedule. And I had toyed with plans to go and see him in London on one of those concerts if I could find a ticket. After all I've been travelling to and from that town quite a bit during the last months and will do so in the future too.

The news of his death reached me trough the radio when I was "putting on my face" yesterday morning, and as with similar events I think I'll always remember what I did when the news reached me. (Other such events are 9/11, the Tsunmi, the Estonia disaster, the deaths of Diana, Elvis, Olof Palme (Swedish prime minister in the 80ies who became shot to death in an open street in Stockholm in 1986) and Anna Lind (Swedish foreign minister who also became murdered, stabbed to death in a Stockholm department store)

I also remember learning about Lennon one week later, because we were in Italy when he was murdered, and since he and the Beatles were never really that famous in Italy it was not a major news item, and thus we missed it.



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