Vale MJ
The Sunday Mail devotes the first nine pages and a ten page insert to the life and death of a weird, grotesque looking negro singer. Sure he had some good music in his day but that was more than negated by his weird behavior in his latter years.
The following comment, picked up from a US blog could well be his epitaph
Only in America can a Negro boy grow up to be a white woman.
Mark Steyn pretty well nails it for me.
He was a talented guy who couldn’t handle his loveless childhood or subsequent fame. He ended up being pretty weird, but that’s not a sin; that’s unless you believe he really did molest little boys which I don’t.
I agree but I choose not to view the extent of the weirdness – it was like watching a man melt..