Reply #39: Touchingly beautiful tribute, Triana...

[Surya Gayatri]

I'm a decade older than you and didn't grow up with the Jackson 5 (especially as I was living abroad during their heyday).
But, I first became aware of the wonder that was Michael while watching the "Thriller" video on French TV. Like millions of others, I was blown away and became an instant fan. I saw him live in Paris during the 1988 "BAD" tour. No other entertainer can touch him--his talent was beyond measure, "magic" like you said.
I felt the "other worldliness" of him from the outset, but am ashamed to say that I bought into some of the tabloid trash during the 90's. I did wonder if he was the pervert they painted him to be.
By the time of the trial travesty in 2005, though, I'd realized that he was a misunderstood victim and not the perpetrator (as the acquittal ultimately proved). How he must have suffered, being the hypersensitive, vulnerable creature that he was.

RIP to an angel unaware. SG