No more Blood on The Dance Floor

Michael Jackson defined my whole decade as a DJ.

The same year I became professional the acclaimed album Off the Wall was released, produced by Quincy Jones. There wasn’t a single track on the album that we DJ´s couldn’t use. The music was bigger than life and the only thing I can compare it too is The Beatles. “Don’t stop til You Get Enough” still gives me the chills and it still ranks as one of the best dance tracks ever.

In 1982 our lives would be changed forever when Thriller was released. Thriller was the closest thing to a dance version of Sgt Pepper, if there ever was one. There wasn’t a single night when Billie Jean couldn’t wake up the dullest crowd from the sofas.
Well through my ten years as a DJ I must have played the songs Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad a thousand times. So I think it is fair to say that I owe him.

I always loved Michael’s music and still do.

Michael Jackson was my oldest daughters first idol. It was great when all these old songs came back to live at our home. And I long back to the days when she was standing in front of the mirror making her MJ dance routines. It was magic.

I sat up late at that night when they were reading his verdict from the molestation trials back in 2005. The family was asleep and my wife couldn’t understand that I was bothered. How could she understand?
As they read ”not guilty” I was so happy that I woke up my daughter to tell her. We did a mini celebration the next day.

I was looking forward to his comeback and just yesterday evening I was making plans to take my kids up to London for one of his O2 concerts.

I got the message first via Twitter last night as I was going to sleep well after midnight. I then went online when there still wasn’t any news reported more than on TMZ.com. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when John Lennon and George Harrison died, now the same goes for Michael Jackson.

Yesterday wasn’t a great day. First Farrah then Michael. I guess all good things come to an end.