Michael Jackson Tributes

It was a shock, the breaking news that Michael Jackson had been taken ill with a suspected heart attack, and then to hear confirmation that he had died was even more shocking. It's not easily explained the way that the public take a celebrity's death, such as Michael Jackson's, so personally, but I would guess that apart from being admirers of Jackson's legendary music and unique style, he is part of many people's lives in the fact that they grew up knowing Jackson as a worldwide icon. The troubled singer's fans did not seem to be swayed by the rumours and court case which clouded Jackson's life in his latter years, and the news of his death seems to have come very hard to many of them.

Yesterday in SL there were tributes being played, either by using his music at clubs and dance venues or by people setting up memorials where fans could light a candle in Jackson's memory. That is something in favour of SL, at least people can pay a tribute if they wish to, in spite of not being able to do so in real life, and it was touching to see the avatars arriving at one of the sites and just standing and trying to come to terms with the loss of such a familiar figure.