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Elvis of Generation-X AKA Michael Jackson  So by now, you know
that Jackson is dead. Or you should, unless you're completely
unplugged.  I hope he did not really molest children, as was
alleged many times over the past 20 years or so. But he was
never convicted of it, so unless and until I learn in the next
life that he did it, then that R.I.P. stands. If I learn "later"
that he did it, I'll posthumously rescind the R.I.P.  At any
rate, for people born between 1962ish and 1982ish, he was Elvis.
Trust me, when I tell you that in all my travels abroad, the one
famous or infamous American that locals always bring up to me in
casual conversation is Michael Jackson. When I lived in the UK
11 years ago there were still fans walking around my Sunny
Brixton neighborhood in London wearing that stupid, puffy-
shouldered red leather jacket, long after Eddie Murphy had made
it a laughingstock in Beverly Hills Cop.  The second person I'm
asked about most often