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Michael Jackson's death has saddened many of his loyal fans, yet how many people knew what the famous singer was like as a person. I remember growing up with his music in the 1980s and watching him perform his famous moon walk on television. The public cannot say how Michael Jackson's childhood (or lack of it) derived him of a stable adulthood. It appears that the young Michael Jackson was used for his voice as he became the family's lead singer at a young age.
Personally I wasn't a fan of his music, yet it seems sad that a grown man had to create his own fantasy land so he could have the sort of life he was denied as a child. Allegations of pedeophillia were rife during the 1990s, which he was cleared of after great deliberation by the courts. The allegations tarnished his reputation both as a man, and as a singer. Speculation of his guilt is still debated world wide.
To all intents and purposes, he had some success with hits such as Thriller and Bad, which were popular in the United States and internationally, I cannot understand why his music was so successful, yet I acknowledge that it must have been as there were images on signs, and television, of people attending his concerts, as well as, buying his CD's were prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
In conclusion whatever people may think of Michael Jackson as a man and a singer, he was arguably deprived of childhood which influenced his behavior in later life.
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