Michael Jackson Dead

American Voices

June 26, 2009 | ISSUE 45•30

Singer Michael Jackson died yesterday at 50. What do you think?

Why do the really weird celebrities who probably already wish they were dead anyway always have to die so young?"

Jenny Wedo
Systems Analyst
I bet Janis, Jimi, Jim, Jerry, Kurt, Elvis, and Michael are having a jam session up in heaven right now. A horrible, cacophonous jam session because their styles clash too much.”

Harold Dray
Meat Packer
I'm really saddened by this, not as a music fan, but as an amateur theme park aficionado.”

Paul Wasserstrom
Pharmacist

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