Michael Jackson - One day in your life

If ever there was a day in your life to look back and remember the musical genius of Michael Jackson, it has to be today. Beyond all the hype and the weirdness and all the way back to an abnormal childhood, to say the least, Michael Jackson's songs were the background to so much of my own early life.

I have always loved this song, remembersing it as part of the early Jackson 5 repertoire in 1975 but, particularly, from a time in 1981 when I had just finished my Finals at Leeds. I travelled to Aberystwyth via five trains and seven hours of a glorious summer day to stay with a friend who became my first lover. As I left her at the station a few days later I had this song in my head - it had been re-released - and the words were never so poignant as then:

"You'll remember a place,
Someone touching your face..."

My friend died three years later. She was just twenty four years old. When our eldest son told us in the early morning that Michael Jackson had died I was taken back twenty eight years to that other summer morning and I did remember.

It's a song I'd like to be played at the end of my funeral and many people should remember Michael Jackson for songs such as this:

"You'll remember me somehow,
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart and,
When things fall apart,
You'll remember one day..."