OK, so I was watching the final 10 countdown of THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENTS IN MUSIC HISTORY, which was on some cable channel. MTV? E? VH1? I don't know, one of them anyway.
What would your guess be for THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENT IN MUSIC HISTORY be? Altamont? The murder of John Lennon? The Who Concert in Cincinnati? Maybe even Elvis dying on his toilet?
I'm sure, whatever you guess, you'd be wrong. According to MTV/E!/VH1/whatever, THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENT IN MUSIC HISTORY, YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE WHEN YOU HEARD THE NEWS was...
The death of Michael Jackson.
Also in the top 10:
Ozzy biting the head off a dove
Brittany shaving her head (I'm not kidding)
OK, and the murder of John Lennon and the Great White nightclub fire and Marvin Gaye getting offed by his own dad were all on there, too. But still...Michael Jackson killing himself with pills? This is THE MOST SHOCKING MOMENT IN MUSIC HISTORY? WTF?