but how good is the DangerMouse collaboration with SparkleHorse & Julian from the Strokes??? Now that works!

Of course MJ’s demise is a huge story and was always going to get saturation coverage. The whole thing, his life, death and the whole media and fan frenzy is so much larger than life. I think people feel so strongly about it because he really was iconic, in so many ways, and not all of them pretty. If Salman Rushdie or Gore Vidal invented this story it would be regarded as far fetched, overblown caricature. It’s a compelling modern tragedy of mythic proportions and his story will endure, because there is so much symbolism packed into it. Peter Pan becomes Dorian Grey. The death of the inner child, the loss of innocence to the forces of greed. Add to that the real world certainty of some serious mental health problems/addictions mixed with utterly unscrupulous medical whores.

I think you were bang on the money, Mystic, when you said that his life sorely lacked any integration of the Saturn lessons. Chaotic family structure, tyrannical, whacked father, seemingly unlimited $$$, inability to accept the word no, resistance to aging, no trust, no boundaries.