If I Only Had a Brain

When you think the Michael Jackson story can't get any weirder, along comes this:

Michael Jackson will be buried this week– without his brain.

As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests.

They faced the grim choice of waiting up to three weeks for Jackson’s brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it – which they have decided to do.

Los Angeles Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey confirmed that neuropathology tests will be carried out to see if it holds any clues to the exact cause of his death.

But the examination cannot begin until at least two weeks after the death when the brain has hardened sufficiently to slice it open.

In 1978 Jackson played The Scarecrow in the black adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, called The Wiz. In the original 1939 Wizard of Oz, The Scarecrow's featured song was "If I Only Had a Brain".

Funny how history repeats itself.