Price of fame

SO the king of pop Michael Jackson has departed abruptly liked so many other high-octane pop/rock performers – Dean, Presley, Holly, Orbison, Darin, Joplin, Moon, Morrison, Hendrix, Lennon, Carpenter, Cobain, Darin, Mercury, Hutchence, etc, etc.

In Wacko Jacko’s case, we can only hope for one positive outcome: his three children might – just might – now get the chance to have something resembling a normal life, without veils, ending in ripe old age.

John O’Driscoll