26 June 2009

the legend.

This is not a fake news. it's 100%ly true.
PETALING JAYA:
The entertainment world suffered a double blow when it was reported
early Friday morning (Malaysian time) that both pop giant Michael
Jackson and 1970s TV star Farrah Fawcett had died in Los Angeles.

Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked above the music world,
died as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of
sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.
He died
Thursday at UCLA Medical Centre after being stricken at his rented home
in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for
nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital,
where doctors continued to work on him.
“It is believed he
suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is
unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine
said. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in
high-profile cases.
In
this Aug. 29, 1993 file photo, pop singer Michael Jackson performs
during his "Dangerous" concert in National Stadium, Singapore. (AP
Photo/C.F. Tham, file)
Jackson’s death brought a
tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak
in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer,
a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on
MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
His 1982 album Thriller -- which included the blockbuster hits Beat It, Billie Jean and Thriller -- is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.
At
the time of his death, Jackson was rehearsing hard for what was to be
his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows
at a London arena, with the first set for July 13.
As word of
his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from
Jackson’s heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital.
In New York’s
Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed
that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by
cellphone.
“No joke. King of Pop is no more. Wow,” Michael
Harris, 36, of New York City, read from a text message a friend had
sent him. “It’s like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always
remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died.”
The
public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the
precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he
formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Indiana. Among their
No 1 hits were I Want You Back, ABC and I’ll Be There.

Michael
Jackson is seen in file pictures from top left, 1971, 1977, 1979, and
bottom left, 1983, 1987, and 1990. Jackson has died in Los Angeles at
age 50 on Thursd
Source: Star Online
P:S MJ, may you rest in peace. you are the star and you rockk!

No comments:

Post a Comment

Comments? Questions? Thoughts? They are always welcomed here :)

Photobucket