Time magazine has announced that they are rush producing a special commemorative issue of their magazine in honor of the late Michael Jackson. This special edition of the mag will be available on newsstands on Monday and is the first such mid-week issue of the mag since September 11, 2001. Here is our first look at the commemorative issue of Time magazine honoring Michael Jackson along with the text of the new press release:
TIME will publish a special commemorative issue on Michael Jackson to hit newsstands on Monday, June 29. This special edition of the magazine will be published in addition to TIME’s regular weekly issue and will retail for $5.99. For the special commemorative issue, TIME spoke with Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Nancy Reagan, Lenny Kravitz, Jesse Jackson, Tommy Mottola, Berry Gordy, Spike Lee, Sheryl Crow, Anjelica Huston, Clive Davis, Al Sharpton, Deepak Chopra, Kobe Bryant, Lance Bass, Oscar De La Hoya, Savion Glover, A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, John Mayer and more. Stories from the commemorative issue will appear on TIME.com Sunday. Read TIME.com’s ongoing coverage of Jackson’s death at http://www.time.com/time/specials/michael-jackson/ TIME last published a special edition in between weekly issues in the days following 9/11. The issue sold more than 3.25 million copies in the United States.
A tribute like this should come as no surprise considering the massive impact that Michael Jackson has had on the world. This will be but the first of many, many tributes to the late King of Pop. This weekend, the BET Awards will pay special tribute to his memory … as I’m sure many other awards shows will in due time. Michael Jackson‘s death will resonate with people for a long time to come.
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Rich wrote: “[t]hat’s how much of an impact he made to the WORLD”.
Hyperbole much? Did he have an impact on remote tribes in the Amazon jungle? Starving children in Darfur? Political prisoners in North Korea? His impact was primarily in modern liberal democracies in North America, Western Europe and Australasia.
Don’t get me wrong: he was a massively influential artist, and such albums as “Thriller” as rightly held in such high esteem, but the man had no real success for a decade or more and had all kinds of sleazy allegations relating to his conduct with children, which, for me, tarnish his legacy. I wonder what the reaction would be if he *had* been found guilty of child abuse? “Oh good, the pervert’s dead”, perhaps?
As for those complaining about people writing negative things about Jackson, deal with it. It’s called freedom of speech. In Iran, people don’t really get this privilege: surely that’s more important than the death of some pop star? In a month or so, people will have moved on, and we’ll be reading about Lindsay Lohan’s newest meltdown, or Michelle Bachmann’s latest rantings. People are fickle, and forget easily.
Oh, and Terri, fix your keyboard. It appears to be broken. And I would have thought that someone so devoted to this individual as you appear to be could actually spell his name correctly.
Love the picture they used – that was about the last time he looked ‘normal’ and still had some sex appeal. I think a lot went wrong after that & I felt bad for him.
RIP – I hope he’s more at peace now & at least now he’s not in so much pain.
Maybe you could take this as a cue and stop paying so much attention to media, to go out and enjoy your own life. You and VV are merely stuck in your own egos, otherwise you’d easily understand that this is OBVIOUSLY what will happen when Michael Jackson dies, whether it appeals to you or not- it’s not going to go any other way. Do you believe that someone is going to yell “WAIT! Stop the presses- some random people said they’re tired of us mourning this icon who just died FOUR DAYS AGO”. It’s been four days- what does that say about YOU? Seriously, I think it’s creepy how so many kids who are growing up (and “adults”, of course) in a culture that’s gotten so advanced that they actually expect varied forms of entertainment to happen constantly, no matter what. There are ALWAYS other things happening in the world- always horrible things to obsess over, things that you will never lift a finger to do anything about. Do half of us even lift a finger to do anything about the horrible things that go on around us all the time? You can point your finger at any atrocity or war that happens to be going on at any time, and use it for your own ego, but does that make you a better person or more intelligent? You are pretending to care about something else for you own ego purposes, but you are just bored of people mourning after a few days. There is probably someone in your life whom you would mourn for much longer than a few days, so look at it that way. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been at wars for years and years and years. The aftermath of Michael Jackson dying won’t go any other way, and you’ll just waste your own energy with complaining.
Lisa, my thoughts exactly. Great pic of him, looking happy and healthy…and normal. That’s an image I would like to keep as a memory of him, and the cute “original” Michael from the J5 days.
That was to Elle, btw, and any other people who are baffled about a public mourning.
Serena, I could not have said it better.
Hey Serena, did you miss the part where I said I was talking about THE ACTUAL NEWS? I very clearly said a gossip blog doesn’t count. Christ. Read much? And how does caring about several people instead of just one mean I have a raging ego?
And I do go out and enjoy my own life. I’ll be on a nice long vacation out of the country for two weeks. And yet, despite that, I like being informed about what’s going on in the world. The whole world. Not just Hollywood. And I’d like to not have to scour the internet for hours to find out what’s going on.
And yes, there are people I would mourn for a long time. My best friend died ten years ago, it’s not something you get over in a matter of days. BUT I ACTUALLY KNEW HER. She isn’t some musician I’ll never meet. I wouldn’t even mourn any of the musicians I HAVE met.
So what does it say about me? That I give a shit about more than one person on the planet, that’s what.
Moron.
you sound like a child, elle- shush, already
I really don’t see what the fuss is about. While the news HAS been featuring MJ, I noticed in intervals they would break to cover the day’s news. Sunday programming on CNN was pretty much back to normal. And for those who did not want to sit around waiting for their news, we have this wonderful invention called the internet that allows us to get ALL stories ALL the time. So hop off the “I’m sick of MJ talk” bandwagon, he was a massive musician with a legacy that reached several generations. Trust me, life will go on without him, but he deserves this recognition.
@ Serena–I couldn’t agree with you more.