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To accompany its Michael Jackson package of articles, the Village Voice put a 1976 photograph of the music legend on its cover. The Voice's Runnin' Scared blog explains that the picture of a dynamic Jackson against the city was "taken on a balcony on the Upper East Side by music photographer Michael Putland. Whatever brought him to town, Jackson was a tough subject, Putland says. He could hardly believe that someone who projected such a giant personality on stage could be so fragile and soft-spoken in person. 'I felt almost sorry for him while taking the photos. I wanted to say, "It's OK, Michael."' Putland also said that it was hard getting Jackson to show his personality, noting that he seemed "very child-like." Also: "It was Jackson's request to wear the deerstalker. Putland remembers thinking that it was a silly hat, but he didn't have the heart to say no." Also check out the Voice's archives of Jackson reviews and articles. In other MJ news, tickets for Jackson's memorial in LA next Tuesday will be randomly drawn (enter here), the powerful sedative Diprivan was found in his home, and he will be buried in a $25K casket.
Village Voice On Its Michael Jackson Cover
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Michael Jackson. Wasn't he the brother of Jermaine Jackson? Or was it Andrew Jackson? I thought he died back in the early nineties.
Such a great photo! It's especially heartbreaking to see him in photos like this when he was so young and handsome before all the surgery.
he seemed "very child-like."
That seems to be a common observation of MJ. I'm sure many a professional and amateur psychologist believes that he wasn't the pedophile some money-grubbing parents made him out to be, but just someone who yearned for the childhood he never had, thanks to his overbearing father's aspirations.
It's true what you say, but where would he have gone without his idiot father's aspiration?
His dancing talents for the most part were orchestrated by professional choreographers and I must assume a lot of the songs were written for his voice. A voice that I think was a castrato voice.