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"John Mayer says it was an honor performing at Michael Jackson&amp;apos;s memorial Tuesday.  \r\n\r\n&amp;quot;The first thing I said was a question &amp;#x2013; does this really come from the family?&amp;quot; he said on Larry King Live Tuesday night. &amp;quot;I think that was essential to me sort of processing the honor. And when I found out that, in fact, it had, it took me about 48 hours to sort of strike the balance in how I was going to approach being &amp;#x2013; you know, being invited to this unbelievable event without actually having the proximity to Michael Jackson, personally. I&amp;apos;d never met him.&amp;quot;\r\nMayer performed an instrumental version of Jackson&amp;apos;s hit &amp;quot;Human Nature&amp;quot; at Tuesday&amp;apos;s memorial. He said he is glad he didn&amp;apos;t end up singing.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;The decision to not sing is just out of knowing what&amp;apos;s best for me,&amp;quot; he said, adding that he doesn&amp;apos;t have a strong vocal range. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;apos;s quite a mine field to go into trying to in any way replicate vocally what Michael Jackson has done.  And in a way, it was sort of respectfully leaving an absence, you know, sort of the presence of his absence.&amp;quot;\r\nHe added that Usher&amp;apos;s rendition of &amp;quot;Gone Too Soon&amp;quot; was &amp;quot;unbelievable.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLooking back on Tuesday&amp;apos;s memorial, Mayer said he is amazed at how &amp;quot;humanizing it was. You know, Michael Jackson wasn&amp;apos;t super human.  He was extra human.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAdded Mayer, &amp;quot;I think everybody who watched the service, I think by the end of it &amp;#x2013; the best service of all was the service done to Michael Jackson to sort of render him finally as being a human being.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;How do I resume Twittering after a day like yesterday?&amp;quot; the singer wrote &amp;#x2013; on Twitter &amp;#x2013; today. &amp;quot;My cells feel different. Thank you to you all for your kind of loving replies.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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