Almost a year after his sudden shutdown on Indie 103.1, ex-Pistol turned radio DJ Steve Jones is tentatively back on air with Jonesy’s Jukebox shows pencilled in for every Monday-Friday at noon-1pm (LA time).
By coincidence, I was watching the news last night just as the story broke that Michael Jackson had died.
To begin with, like most people I guess, my reaction was mainly; “How? Why?”, and then…”Wow”.
I wasn’t really expecting to have much more of a reaction than that, I’m pretty realistic, and people die. That’s the way it goes.
Yet I did have much more of a reaction, and I was surprised at myself by just how deeply saddened I was at the news. So I thought about it some more, and only then I realised that, at forty-five years old, I have known of, listened to, and danced with Michael Jackson for forty years.
Forty years. Since I was just a mere five years old. No wonder I found his death such a genuinely sad event.