Moon walking. That's what the slightly deluded, psychotic and mentally challenged Michael Jackson fans will be doing at his tribute show in early October, whilst frothing at the mouth.
However, it does seem slightly strange that Jackson’s followers will gather in Cardiff?s Millennium Stadium whilst alleged manslaughterer Dr. Conrad Murray faces trial. According to you lot, he didn't give Michael a lollipop after his visit to the doctors, just a cocktail of lethal drugs.
In the society we live in, people have all sorts of opinions on Michael Jackson. Sure, he made some semi-decent records, but we like to remember him as the man whose face literally looked like it had been freshly moulded each morning by a child with thumb-hands. We can say that because free society allows us to speak our minds. Just like the time Gene Simmons of Kiss thought out-loud that Michael Jackson was one of those paedophile types. Nice to see him rewarded with a slot at the Cardiff at the tribute show then. That won’t be awkward will it?
Just in case you never caught the Gene Simmons quote that he gave to Classic Rock magazine last year, then feast your eyes on it here:
?No matter what my fond memories and fond images of Michael were, with one allegation of paedophilia after another and another and another? Oh dear… The only sexual references ever made about Michael Jackson that were made by anyone, anywhere around the world, have always been made by kids, and specifically males usually 10 to 14 years of age; never females, that age or older, and never grown men.?
“Where there’s smoke there’s fire. There’s no question in my mind he molested those kids. Not a doubt.”
Whenever famous people get caught up in these scandals, their fellow ?celeb friends will often rally behind them to offer support. Michael Jackson never really received this due to severity of the charge brought against him. And presumably, because people thought ‘Well, yeah, it sounds like it could be right in fairness’.
Despite being found innocent both times, the damage was done and it did plague the rest of his career. But hey, at least Jackson went back to the recording studio, Gary Glitter didn't have it so lucky.
It's always easy to place the blame and immediately believe the accused of a crime before the verdict has been passed, but to point the finger again? Either the children he invited round were all conniving bastards, or the Jesus Juice that Jackson seduced them with wasn?t powerful enough to wipe their minds of the previous night?s illicit activities.
Of course, we?ll never truly find out what happened and the same will inevitably happen when Dr. Conrad Murray takes to the stand for an event that will quite quickly become a parody of itself. We expect demonstrators, the release of doves, ’round the clock reports via ropey news stations and a trial that?ll last months and eventually deliver a verdict we can all see coming.
But at least we’ve got Kiss to distract us now, who automatically make themselves the top draw at the tribute gig. So far the other acts have been relatively limp to say the least. Thus far, we've got second rate American pop punk with Alien Ant Farm who performed a terrible cover of Smooth Criminal, Christina Aguilera has been asked to bring along the pyrotechnics and recreate Jackson?s accidental hair burning moment that happened during that Pepsi advert and oddly, Leona Lewis. Because she looks like a horse, we imagine that She'll be used as an animal double for Bubbles.
If people are being invited based on their past incidents of writing slightly negative things about Michael Jackson, like Gene Simmons did, then hecklerspray fully expects an invitation to be dropping on to the door of our bedsit.
No seriously. We want free tickets. Okay?
***EDITOR’S UPDATE***
Organisers of the dreadful looking Michael Jackson tribute concert in Cardiff have dropped Kiss from the line-up. MJ’s brother, Jermaine said:
“This mishandling reinforces my view that this promoter is getting it all wrong.”
It’s Michael’s alleged mishandling of minors that kicked this all off in the first place! Oh, and we still want free tickets.
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ben says
Michal Jackson – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – TWICE
KISS? LOL
Cookie Monster says
Making the tribute seem ever more pathetic, wouldn’t you say?
One thing that Kiss has over MJ; each member nailed far more female groupies over 18, and by ‘far more’, I mean at least one.
arzkazoo says
Michael Jackson- got away with abusing minors – TWICE