Fever Chapter 7

I particularly enjoyed the paragraphs that discussed Michael Jackson.  I love how Tim Riley talks about Jackson.  He says that he had so much soul and precocious sexual edge at just the age of ten, but he turned into doomed, beyond repair person.  He describes him as having so much potential to be a star and how he did capitalize on it, but only ruin himself in the end.  I was to young to remember when he got married to Lisa Marie Presley, but from the way it is described in the book, it seemed to be a farce.  Michael Jackson had major success in the 80s with albums like "Thriller", but he progressively became stranger.  He started getting plastic surgery to change how he looked and eventually, he bleached himself.  This is how he became Wacko Jacko.  He did many odd things like build a theme park for himself, bought the Elephant Man's bones, and settled out of court on the case of his pedophilia.  This seems to culminate in 2002 when he dangled his baby son out a window in Germany.  Jackson is the perfect example of what not to do with the later end of your career.