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Dangerous album cover

In the summer of 1995, I snuck into my uncle’s room with keys to his bottom drawer containing his most precious special edition tape of Michael Jackson’s  ”Dangerous” album.  The album is said to be the last plateau of Jackson’s music career before it went downhill relative to the high standards he himself set with previously historic sales.  I played the tape every morning while I stayed at my grandmother’s house that whole summer.  Every morning the first song I’d play would be “Black and White”  which my uncle told me was my generations version of Stevie Wonder’s “Ebony and Ivory”.    I never understood it until much later, upon hearing Stevie’s song throughout my life.

Every legend or celebrity we tend to render some respect to are often intertwined to a personal memory that we could connect with their creations. It shows that some mementos are created not only by people we personally know, but who leave a mark through their art or performance.

RIP Michael Jackson.

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Michael Jackson – Gone Too Soon [Download] [Lyrics]