Daily Telegraph rock critic Neil McCormick said he was "utterly shocked" at her death.

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The Daily Telegraph's pop critic Neil McCormick notes that Michael Jackson - "among the greatest self-dramatists in the history of pop" - is certain to use his acquittal as a springboard for a comeback.

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And yet most tracks of this ilk function perfectly well on another, more innocent level - ambiguity being a necessary function of addressing such themes while also hoping to get played on the radio, according to the Daily Telegraph's chief rock critic Neil McCormick.

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