See? I’m getting emotional again.

Although I was older during his hey-day (in my 20’s and early 30’s) and listened to a different sort of music, I’ve always liked his music. He was so very talented, but like so many other artistically talented people, that talent came at the price of being wired differently than most normal people. As the years progressed, that wiring seemed to get further and further off track. It was sad to watch actually, and part of me is glad (?) that he does not have to face his upcoming ‘comeback’. If it would not have been all that he wanted it to be – because of his age, his drug problems, different audience – thousands of factors to consider – being the perfectionist he was, perhaps anything less than what he was hoping for would have driven him further off track. It would have been a shame for this generation to equate him to something less than what he represented to an earlier generation.

I just hope that people’s need to know everything, hash out everything, speculate about everything, doesn’t damage his kids. I hope wherever they end up, whoever they end up with, they are protected from the media crap.

We watched the service live, at the salon (on one side of our iMac monitor, while I worked in a window on the other side of it!). Though it was over the top, that didn’t surprise me. The parts that got to me the most were Brooke Shields, because she dated him when he was still considered sort of normal, and his daughter, at the end.

I am getting a little burned out on all the coverage, though. Let him RIP, you know?