He never could say goodbye

In the daily I Kathimerini Maria Katsounaki writes on Michael Jackson the man: "It's very easy to talk about a great but deeply disturbed talent. But it's also true in part. However if we look back at the history of the star cult and the music industry, it's very difficult to find an idol without 'oddities'. Jackson personified showbiz in it's most extreme form. He reflected the absolute problem of experiencing the adventure of showbiz without losing himself in the process. In his delusion he attacked his face, his external appearance. Too weak to master the turbulence within him, he made changing his appearance part of an ongoing pop spectacle. A believer in supernatural gifts, he retreated into Neverland. And he lost, because he wasn't Peter Pan. He simply didn't want to grow up."

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