Dark Star

It has just been revealed that Michael Jackson was "an emotionally paralysed mess". It has also just been revealed that the Pope is most likely a Catholic, and bears have been known to... well, you get the idea.

Promoters, emails have shown, feared that Jacko was in such a terrible state that he wouldn't be able to carry off his string of comeback concerts. Which he didn't.

But hadn't we all suspected for some time that he was an EPM? He was, at his peak, one of the most phenomenal musicians, singers and dancers ever seen. And as is so often the case, the EPM was surely part of that formidable package; that splurge of genius had to come from somewhere pretty dark...