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I grew up in the late 70s and 80s (only slightly older than Ohchan lol).
Charlie's Angels was on TV.
My cousin sisters whom I grew up with, three of us used to 'role-play' Charlie's Angels.
I was the smart brunette one lol.
It was silly. But we were mere pre-schoolers lol.
Black and white Ultraman was also on TV,
so was "Once upon a time.. space", one of my brother and my fave animations.
銀河鉄道999, 宇宙戦艦ヤマト, and old school gundam were on video tapes.
Kimisawa, a Japanese shopping mall back then, was still in Damansara Jaya.
A time when there's only one Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant (it wasn't KFC) and only one A&W in town.
Going to these two "restaurants" were like family weekend outing event.

Michael Jackson's "Ben" was on one of our family cassette tapes.
We also had "Off the Wall" album on cassette tape.
"Rock with you" was my fave fave song on that tape, I was a kiddo.
At the time, there were also "Saturday Night Fever", The Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder, The Carpenters and many more; including old school showa japanese songs and HK songs (old school Samuel Hui, and those TVB dorama songs composed by 顧家輝) among the many cassette tapes / vinyls my family owned.
I can't call myself a hardcore fan of MJ, but I grew up listening to his songs.
He was part of my happy childhood memories.

I was just getting into elementary school when "Thriller" was released.
I can recall the whole song and arrangement of "Billie Jean" in my brain.
That killer bass line. The beat. The intensity. The moon walk.
Of course, MJ went on to release "Bad" and created more hits.
But my faves songs of his still remained from the "Off the Wall" and "Thriller" albums.
Perhaps old school MJ reminds me of my own happy childhood growing up in KL.
A time and space that I long to return, but could never return, except when I close my eyes.

So thank you, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett; thanks for the happy memories. R.I.P.

PS:
I was reading digg.com on one of the MJ thread..
I like this comment by EtherealSOC:
"The greatest performer who ever lived. It's strange, but I'd be happier if he died at the age of 80, old and broken and giving society enough time to view his work through the passage of time and eras. I'd even be happier if he died at the height of his fame, in the late 1980's, and he would have been immortalized as a hero of epic proportions. Now he dies a spectacle, loved by many but destested by many as well, and this spectrum is so wide and yet so polar that it doesn't reflect the kind of creative genius and visionary philanthropist that he became. At his root he was a very sad and scared man, living a twisted existence on the verge of reality, and even more than grieve at his passing, I feel sorry that the world might not understand what it just lost..." 

PS again:my internet bandwidth is exceeded for this month, so won't be able to reply/catch up until July D:can't wait 'til July.. I can catch up with more old school MJ songs and videos and of course Arashi shows too.