During his lifetime, Michael Jackson did several things that he’ll always be remembered for.

To the few fans that aren’t psychotic and claim to have met him in fairgrounds or lighthouses, he made groovy records. To this day, we still can’t make the pavement light up the way he did.

His music was the highlight, alongside the charity work he carried out. Other activities that crop up when you Google Michael Jackson include his head becoming a human sparkler, Joe Jackson whipping his ass senseless, crippling debt problems and the occasional alleged mishap with a child. But Michael also loved animals. We all know about Bubbles, but a recent portrait shows the King of Pop riding a mighty stallion whilst angels look on. What a sickening thought.

Like him, hate him or see him as an inspiration for dancing or getting out of court-based jams, Michael Jackson did buy a lot of pointless tat. We’re not talking about 500 tins of paint so he could change the colour of his bathroom every day depending on Bubbles’ mood. By weird purchases, we mean the sort of stuff that goes up in price as shop owners see him coming. You know, because it’s ‘exclusive’ and ‘one of a kind’.

When people get famous, they tend to go all egotistical and lose their ghetto roots that kept them in touch with the common person. Instead of getting tasteful art or stealing gig posters from clubs or kebab shops, only their own face will do as splendid and tasteful art. Michael Jackson commissioned gaudy artwork of himself fairly regularly, and this latest picture wasn’t completed before he kicked it. In theory this is a bit more unique than the recent announcement of Michael Jackson’s death scent, but The Telegraph reports:

“Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” commissioned by the late pop star, who died on June 25, was sold to a German collector at the Art Basel show, said Kathy Grayson from New York’s Deitch Projects gallery. The large portrait, which Jackson never saw in its finished form, measures 3.51 (11.5 feet) by 3.1 meters (10.1 feet), and is the work of New York-based artist Kehinde Wiley.”

No doubt PETA will be upset by this portrait as they’ll assume this will encourage his fans to grieve his death by riding horses. And then burning the corpse for glue when all the fun disappears. The NSPCC may also be worried. Those childlike angels are awfully close to the King of Pop.

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