No Rock And Roll Fun

ARE YOU BLUE OR ARE YOU BLIND?: If you're anything like us, you'll have spent much of the last month or so staring at the people who turn up outside the courtroom holidng placards and chanting in support of Michael Jackson, wondering "who the hell are they?" The New York Times has gone among the Jackson faithful to find out. The surprise is not that so many of them are clearly using Jacko as a prop for their own wobbly lives, but that so many of them seem aware that they are.
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