I spent yesterday in London celebrating Michael's birthday, and it was amazing.
We started early by blasting his music all the way there - 3 hours of Michael!
First, we went to the NPG for the On The Wall exhibition, which was fantastic. There were so many beautiful photos and portraits, and there was a room that played the Bucharest performance of Jam on a loop, and a huge Dangerous photo that took up the whole wall, and it was the entrance to the next room (the part under Michael's eyes was an archway).
When you got tickets, there was someone handing out posters if your moonwalk was good. I got a poster
There were so many people there; I've never seen so many MJ shirts in my life, and there were people wearing Thriller and Beat It jackets, and loafers, and fedoras; it was amazing to see.
There were also lots of young kids, who were having the time of their lives; it was adorable. And it was great to see that Michael's legacy has lived on.
After that, we went to the Moonwalker screening at the BFI. I managed to get seats in the front row, almost centre, and from what I saw, it was almost a full house. They had his music playing while we waited for the film to start, and when it did, the experience was amazing. It was so great to be with my people, you know? These weren't casual MJ fans; these were the ones who know every "hee-hee," grunt and vocal hiccup.
From the moment the film started, there was cheering; when Michael's feet walked out, cheering, Man in the Mirror, cheering, the retrospective, cheering with every song change.
It was so nice to know that I'm not the only person that know Moonwalker word for word; most everyone was quoting it, and laughing out loud "would ya autograph my tummy?"
"Aw, I love that smile," at the end of Speed Demon.
More cheers when he turned into the car, when Smooth Criminal started, and when he did the lean, and when he turned into the robot and the spaceship.
When Katie said "I wish he would come back," there was a collective "me, too." More cheers when he returned, and yet more for "Come Together."
Everyone even stayed throughout the credits, singing along to The Moon is Walking, and for the short version of Smooth Criminal.
There was an after party, but we sadly couldn't stay for it, as we had a long drive home.
It was a fantastic experience, and I really felt the love for Michael yesterday.