The press will be full of cheep sentimentalism after this very unhappy event, they will analyse Michael's career, they will make up conspiration theories, they will remember Michael's concerts, they will review endlessly pictures with him, they will eulogize, they will polemize...
From such many controversies, something sure remains after his death: Michael Jackson entered the legend (if there was any doubt untill now). But not in any way: he became e legend as a controversial genius, a mad man, a danser clown, an absolute but frustrated artist, gone before his time.
Do you want to know which artists he has alonside in this hall of fame? It's simple: Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ritc
hie Valens, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Buddy Holly, John Bonham - the list is opened and continuosly growing.
None of the above was considered to be "normal", every one of them shocked through their way of beeing, through their strange way of expressing their passion. They were adored by their fans, maybe too much. They have adapted very well to their times, and more than that, they were trend setters, they established the land marks. But it's a very short line from succes to loosing it. Anyhow, any genius artist will transform into dust, if not nourished with this madness.
With the risc of sounding gruesome, maybe it's better that Michael Jackson passed away. Michael will remain in our memory with those concerts from 15-20 years ago, concerts who changed the world of music, with those amazing TV videos which he brought them to the level of arts, with those incredible coreographies which will be copied another 50 years from now. Who knows if, at more than 10 years from his last concerts, he would have known to sing, or to dance?! We allready know that he didn't had the energy for this.
A mistery will remain: how Michael Jackson would have sound like today? Would have disapointed us? Would he became even brighter?
The King is dead. Long live the King!
The violin played a very important role in the history of music. Not only classic music, but also modern pop-rock and almost any music genre.
This is a sample of how an instrument can be immortal, adapted to every style and music note and modern instrument.
This is about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer who spent 19 years in jail for a murder Dylan felt he did not commit. Carter was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 3 white people who were gunned down at a bar in Paterson, New Jersey on June 17, 1966. Police were looking for 2 black men and pulled over Carter and his friend John Artis. They were sentenced to life in prison.
8 years into his incarceration, Carter sent Dylan a copy of his autobiography. Dylan visited him in prison, and convinced of his innocence, wrote "Hurricane." Lawyers at Columbia Records made Dylan change some of the lyrics to avoid lawsuits. Dylan went of Carter's prison in 1975 as a show of support. The visit brought a lot of attention to Carter's case.
Touring with the Rolling Thunder Revue, which featured Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack, Dylan raised over $100,000 for Carter's defense at a Madison Square Garden concert the day after visiting his prison. A month later, they held another charity concert, Hurricane II, in the Astrodome.
Dylan's efforts brought new publicity to Carter's case, getting him a new trial in 1976, where he was again convicted, with prosecutors claiming he killed the men in retaliation for a murder of a black man earlier that night. Carter was not freed until 1984, when his conviction was finally overturned.
Carter was the subject of the 1999 movie Hurricane, staring Denzel Washington as the boxer.
The A-side of single is titled "Hurricane (part 1)." The B-side is "Hurricane (full version)."
The characters mentioned in the song are real people.
The line "He ain't no gentleman Jim" is a reference to "Gentleman" Jim Corbett, a white boxer in the 1800s known for his manners.
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