If I told you the guy living next door to me was a selfish, self obsessed, irresponsible junkie, who endangered the lives of his children, squandered and blew all the money he earned (that should have been used to secure a future for his family) and who overdosed on a lethal concoction of drugs, leaving behind 3 kids with no mother or father figure - would you say he was a great man? Would you say that he was an icon to be worshipped and lamented as a loss to the world?

Michael Jackson was a self-centered, drug addicted, disgrace of a human being, who wasn’t fit to be trusted with the life of a pet monkey, let alone gifted with the opportunity to guide and protect the lives of 3 young children, and writing no amount of chart topping pop songs makes that simple fact any different.
I don’t usually rant but sometimes the blinkered view people have of celebrities makes my blood boil.