I did, I was first introduced to MJ through my sister who was a huge Michael Jackson fan when she was a kid and she would always watch his music videos all day. Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is the movie that I saw of him first and the music video for Smooth Criminal was the first one that I vividly remember watching a lot, and it was also a video game on the Sega Genesis. So my earliest memories of him came from that, of course we were confused as to why he looked different in his later years in comparison to his earlier videos (this was sometime after Thriller and he had not yet gone public with the vitiligo or the plastic surgery). As for all of the controversy over the child sex abuse allegations, I was too young to understand it at the time and when I did get old enough, I was already exposed to the older Michael Jackson, so whatever he did later on actually didn't matter to me. But it's a shame his reputation was tarnished for so long until his death. I'm glad I was able to appreciate him while he was here, through his music and the dancing and all of the videos, the sunglasses, fedora hat and the Versace dress shirts with the sparkly gloves etc. He was so cool.
