I was a fan until he got too weird
Thriller remains, I believe, the best selling album of all time.
He was unquestionably an artistic genius and the biggest pop star of this era.
I think the child psychologists will be studying this man's life for a long time. He clearly suffered in many ways from having been thrust into the limelight at a very early age, and basically deprived of a normal childhood. Perhaps that's why he later bought Neverland and tried to recreate what he had never experienced.