Michael Jackson

Last thursday I recieved the breaking news stating that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was death after suffering from cardiac arrest. To me, a huge fan, it was really hard to realize that a great idol of mine no longer excisted. A great singer, composer, dancer and producer - in other words a complete entertainter - is no longer with us.

Jackson was, as mentioned, without doubt one of the greatest artists of all time. Beginning his career as a five year-old, his musical repertoar spands over five decades, including 56 awarded songs, 13 number-one-hits and more than 750 million albums sold. His first studio-album "Thriller", provided the world with more than 7 number- one-hits, and is the world's most selling record being sold in more than 109 million copies.

Jackson's excentric personality has made him a target for the tabloids his entire life, causing him to have no private life. This situation finally made Jackson withdraw from his career, his last tour was the "HIStory Tour" which ended in 1997. He released the album "Invincible" in 2001, but was not an immediate success.

However, Jackson was scheduled to make the ultimate comeback with his tour "THIS IS IT", a series of 50 concerts which were intened to be held in 02 arena, London, premiering this summer on July 13th. I was lucky enough to get tickets to this event, and now it really hurts knowing that with the death of Michael, the world has not only lost an artist of outstanding character, but I will never have my dream of watching him perform live achieved. A dream which for many years seemed impossible to achieve suddenly became a goal possible to reach when I got the tickets. It was almost to good to be true.

And as it turned out, it was...