I was watching BBC News last night about midnight when the news of MJ in Hospital was broke, and rumors about what exactly was going on were jumping around the net at rapid speed. Once it was 100% confirmed that he passed away it took ages to sink in, to be honest.

Michael's music was a BIG part of my childhood. I had a friend in school who could do the dance routines pretty well, due to watching his videos daily for months on end. I had the music video collection on VHS as well as the movie Moonwalker (which was pretty much a feature length music vid too) and loved the imagination that went into them, Thriller especially, though I'm not a big fan of Earth Song.

In recent years I found out that he had been un-credited for collaborating on the 'Do the Bartman' Simpsons single and supposedly the soundtrack to Sonic 3 on the Mega Drive too, and listening to them now it's obvious. On a Simpsons DVD with the Bartman song on it they reveal that he literally just phoned them and said he wanted to give Bart a number one single. How cool is that?

News is spreading that apparently he has over 100 un released songs that may get released now, and his Neverland ranch might be opened to the public ala Graceland. hell, I'd visit Neverland just to check out his incredible arcade game collection which was almost sold off in an auction a few months back.

For now though I'm listening to his music again (still have the HIStory album lying about) for probably the first time in years and remembering just how awesome he was back in the day, and I managed to order the DVD with all his music videos on it just before every MJ related out sold EVERYWHERE, so the nostalgia can come flooding back. His music has made him immortal, after all. Still, I'd like to think he's up in the clouds have a good old sing song with Freddy Mercury and Elvis.

EDIT: I take it back about Earth Song. I heard it just now for the first time in years and I finally broke the bottle and teared up. Darn.