Someone died. And apparently the world put down their weapons and all wars stopped yesterday, politicians and judges sat in silence. Just media vultures circle, picking over a broken corpse. The heretofore sensible Newsnight had no choice but to do a 50 minute special on the late ‘King of Pop’.
Meanwhilst Neil Young was taking to the stage at Glastonbury. He didn’t mention Michael Jackson, he didn’t mention Michael Jackson, all the news is chanting. So just an oddly appropriate coincidence that he started the set with Hey Hey My My (Fade into the black)
And once you’re gone,
you can’t come back
When you’re out of the blue
and into the black.The king is gone
but he’s not forgotten
And his favourite finale- Beatles’ ‘A Day in the Life’ cover seemed more intuitive and enrapturing than ever.
(EDIT: the particular video for this has been taken down for now, so instead, here’s what it may have looked like, except with the added bonus that the captain of cheese himself Macca makes an appearance in what looks like some kind of safari outfit…)


