MJ

Here's my first memory of Michael Jackson, aside from my dad bringing "Thriller" home (on tape!) and my way-cool classmates having MJ folders for their papers at school.

I was on a bus, probably on some school trip, watching a few of my (3rd grade?) classmates try to sing 'Billie Jean'. Someone had written the lyrics out on a piece of paper, and they were gathered around in the back of the bus, singing along. Quite innocently. Until a teacher confiscated that sheet of paper + proceeded to lecture all of us on the evils of that music. (Thank you, Christian school! Remind me to refrain from lecturing Leah too much. It REALLY doesn't work.)

And that is when I first became a fan.