I was just 9 years old when I ran to the ‘Natarajan’s’ shop by barging through the Brobdingnagian queue holding 2 black colored 10 rupee notes; “Can I have one please?” I begged him and all that the shopkeeper did was to shoo me away. I was trying to buy a latest released Micheal jackson cassette which almost costed 600 rupees then. All I did was to eagerly wait for those saturday’s, Doordarshan played some of hit hollywood numbers on saturday evening and the show without a MJ number was impossible, It was later when we bought our own mini tape-recorder which i utilized fully to record all MJ songs. I remember my brother sitting under the never yielding ‘papaya’ tree and reading all the MJ news form all the available few magazines then. huh! it later took me 12 long years to buy the fully loaded Micheal Jackson DVD collection without even seeing the price tag!
Hmm! it was not only me but millions of people like me who craved to hear that ‘One Beat’ of MJ, for people like me who were totally nescient about the Music world till date! huh! it was only MJ, from masons to high-society people MJ touched every one’s life. All that i had heard from the world of pop was Micheal’s tapping numbers which probably inspired millions of us to dance, to sing and probably to enjoy western music in the late 80’s or early 90’s. Micheal jackson was a man made of music, as Larry king put in his authentic style ‘There can never be any one other than Micheal”
Who can forget the stylish and the most innovative ‘Moon- Walk’ how many of us would have tried to imitate this one move to impress our female class-mates? The influence of Mj was so much that for many years i thought that all the policemen wear white gloves only to follow MJ’s style. thousand’s came Millions left but nobody could not match the immortal Micheal. He was the first Hero, first pop king, first crush (of any girl), first idol, first dancer (by all means! right!) first poster on our house walls and what not?
“Beat it.. Beat it.. Beat it..” Ah! probably the only song till date we all hear only to beat the feeling of depletion in us, growing up in a environment where western music was far audible when compared to our own SPB, PBS or even S Janaki; here came a man who broke in the household of any average Indian household only through his charismatic style and music.
The world waited for his return, As put by his celebrated counterpart and a good friend “Madonna”, “Micheal has to come out of the shell!” MJ had announced his return journey, london was waiting and so was he! as he rightly put in his last speech before he announced his last concert
“THIS IS IT………”
Probably he meant what he said then and left no one to understand it, if only the almighty had given him one last chance…..
From the entire team of Thoughtsunparalleled and WeMove Foundation, we wish his soul to ‘Rest in Peace’
