…err…don’t quite agree with that one. I still, on occasion, hear “Rock With You,” “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough,” “Man In The Mirror,” “Bad,” “Black Or White” and “Thriller”…not “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin,” though.

I wanted to point out that plenty of Prince songs have been “forgotten” by that rubric too (for all I know the last couple of generations only knows “1999,” “Purple Rain” and a couple others) and at least Jacko’s discography from 1979 to his death only consists of six measly albums as opposed to Prince’s six hundred…but what I was really trying to point out was that his reputation for being a pedophile and a freak or whatever, which I thought was cemented, did not stop this critically lambasted film from grossing an ass-blasting load of money at the box office. And the public reaction? WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL MISS YOU MICHAEL. Like the kid-diddling stuff never happened. Just like Trump knocking up a 13 year old girl and throwing the baby in a lake didn’t happen.

When the Beatles compilation 1 came out, with all their #1 hits on one disc, I noticed someone claiming that the record company wanted it to be the biggest best seller of all time and beat Thriller, at which point it was asked if the sales figures were really necessary to prove the Beatles were a bigger cultural force than Michael Jackson, the Eagles and Boston.