“Alas we are all human beings and sometimes we have to lose things before we can truly appreciate them.”

The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards took place on September 13, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The awards were held a few months after Michael Jackson died on June 25th, 2009. The VMAs dedicated the night to Jackson with a retro-music video (VIMEO) montage as a tribute, a performance that was followed by Janet Jackson and show closed with a spectacular look at This Is It, the film assembled from Jackson’s concert rehearsals. What’s interesting is that Madonna opened the show with a 6min. powerful moving testimonial about Jackson where she shares poignant memories in a away you never seen her before: One-for-the-books. Weird this speech never went viral. “Heal the World (VIDEO) and drop your gloves form Heaven MJ (VIDEO) and Make that change!" Watch Jackson performing ‘Man in the Mirror’ here, July 16,1988 Wembley Full concert here. Also recommend Bad 25, a 2012 documentary film about the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album Bad. The film was directed by Spike Lee who has previously directed Jackson in the music video for "They Don’t Care About Us. FULL DOC. HERE. "He even told us…look at yourself in the mirror. If you were gonna make a difference, look at the man or the woman in the mirror.” Jackson’s story, she said, was “a miraculous and wonderful story…if he was burned, he built a burn unit. If a hospital needed beds, he built those beds…Michael never stopped giving." Sheila Jackson Lee. (Memorial Service)