Does Michael Jackson's music begin to justify the extraordinary degree of attention that has been paid to his death?br /br /I think not.br /br /He was clearly outstandingly talented as a boy, and next to the Osmonds the Jackson 5 sounded like the Amadeus Quartet. But they were pretty much in the Motown mainstream, and if you like late Motown then Stevie Wonder is greatly to be preferred.br /br /I liked his Off the Wall album. It was at the time the best-selling album by a Black artist ever. And it showcased Michael Jackson as good-looking, stylish young Black man.br /br /But after that something terrible happened to his music as well as to his face.br /br /Thriller was simply not an album for grown ups. Aided by the rise of MTV and the pop video, Jackson's music was from then on aimed principally at children.br /br /The former child star a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1196040/Michael-Jackson-asked-I-wanted-Blankets-godfather-Friend-Mark-Lester-gives-touching-insight-tortured-singer.html"Mark Lester/a is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: "He always told me he wrote his songs for the age group of ten to 14."br /br /It showed.br /br /Certainly, it seems that those most affected by Michael Jackson's death are those who were children when Thriller came out.br /br /Still, de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est, as they say on Radio 1.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-5379359114655075435?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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