GP's song of the day: Michael Jackson

Far be it for me to write too many more words to the millions that have already been written about Michael Jackson, but he did have some nice tunes.

That doesn't make him the King of Pop, not least because I don't think pop music is a monarchy. I can't listen to much of his music without separating it from the bombast he brought to it from the mid '80s onwards (the statue of himself floated down the Thames, the god-awful Brits routine so well disrupted by Jarvis Cocker) but his early stuff at least had a real joie de vivre.

Apart from some of the early Jacksons hits, I really like Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough, though it is telling that it comes his last really great album (Off the Wall) and that's 30 years old.