The Michael Poll (with a twist)

I couldn't decide ... with only one exception, although I did not vote because I was way too conflicted as to the choices ... 

Michael Jackson ... for one important detail that is COMPLETELY IGNORED ... I saw him a long time ago, during his time BEFORE the great big album, and there was one thing that was completely unmentioned and not discussed ... the week before I had seen EARTH WIND AND FIRE and the audience was probably around 95% black ... and on that day in LA, seeing MJ, the audience was 50% black and white ... and you and I know that we still discuss the many folks that played on his great album, and how many of us think a lot about the greatness of that amazing album (and how progressive it was for that time!!!!!) ... but we never really mentioned the wider appeal that he ended up having ... which was more important than a lot of his tabloid crap.

I sincerely doubt that any other Michael in that list came close to that kind of discussion and appeal to an audience ... I appreciate many of them, and MJordan specially ... since he also is able to blend the appreciation of the public for his great accomplishments, but in the end, MJ's, for me, is much more important at a time that things had been brewing since the 60's with segregation and such ... at least with MJackson, you saw the dream ... come alive, even if it was momentary and his candle burned itself out as well.

He had mine, too. I was the second person to vote for him! 🤗

Have you listened to his early band Blackjack? (1979-1980). 

and you say i got no respect...