> > > Yep. I guess their loss (so to speak) is our gain! Michael is still
with
> > > us, still writing, still recording, and I hope will be for many
years to
> > > come.
>
> > Why do they say "only the good die young," then? I suppose it is as
> > futile & evil as that nonsense about killing two birds with one stone
> > {shrug}.
>
> My guess is that with music critics, it's a false idea on their part
> that the artist would've gone on and lived up to *their* expectations.
> Better to have died young and become part of the *what might have
> been* than to have grown old and potentially become of less
> im****tance.
....& what about John Lennon's odd & eerie comment about Elton John
dying young, instead of the unfortunate reality of the reverse...
