Micheal Jacksons Death

On August 29th, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, The world's most talented pop singer was born, Michael Joseph Jackson. Michael was an American Singer/songwriter and dancer. Everyone knew MJ as the “King Of Pop” and is thought of by many, as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. He was a popular guy and his contributions to dance, style, and music have made a big statement and made him a global figure for about four decades. Michael was the 8th child out of his family. He made his first ever debut in 1964 with his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon and for the first time, the Jackson 5 was announced. He sang with his brothers in the Jackson 5 for about 7 years and then in 1971, he began his solo career with Motown Records. As he furthered his career into the 1980’s, he released songs that are very popular today, like, “Billie Jean”, “Beat It”, and the biggest one, “Thriller”. Those songs were all released in his 1982 album called Thriller. All three of those songs were “Hits” as you would call them, and their music videos were credited with ¨breaking racial barriers¨ and forming the music into an art. In the 1990’s, he began his touring career and through touring and music videos, he performed difficult dance moves like the robot and a move that he named, the moonwalk.

Around early 1993, Michael had been hanging out with a 13 year old boy, who he had shared a bed with and the boy accused MJ of sexual abuse and after many police investigations, there were no charges brought to Michael. In the meantime, MJ had been taking painkillers, valium, Xanax, and Ativan to calm the stress he had been under due to the allegations. Michael had been taking drugs for so long that by the end of 1993, he was addicted to drugs. At this point in Michael's life, he was very close to the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, her name was Lisa Marie Presley, Michael had depended and leaned on her for emotional support during this time and she was very concerned and worried about his health too. Lisa and Michael had known each other since she was 7 years old and had attended one of Jackson family engagements together, and since then, had remained close friends. During the time of the allegations, she sympathized and talk with Michael and believed that he was innocent and talked the boys family out of court and into rehabilitation. Michael proposed to Lisa over the phone in late 1993, they married secretly in May of 1994. They stayed married for two years and filed for divorce in 1995.

MJ went on the HIStory Tour from September 7, 1996 to October 15, 1997 and it was his most attended tour, it made about $165 Million, while on tour he married Debbie Rowe who was six months pregnant with his first child, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (known as Prince) was born February 13, 1997. His second child, Paris Michael-Katherine Jackson was born a year later on April 3, 1998. Michael didn’t have much luck with marriages and he and Debbie divorced in 1999 and after the second child abuse allegations against Michael, Debbie went back to court to claim custody.

June 25, 2009, Michael passed away in his rented mansion in Holmby Hills Los Angeles from a overdose of Propofol. Michaels personal Physician, Conrad Murray had been prescribing and giving Michael multiple medications like Propofol, Lorazepam, and Midazolam to help Michael sleep. The paramedics were called at 12:22 pm and arrived three minutes later. CPR was performed because MJ was not breathing. Resuscitation efforts were still being made after arriving at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center an hour before, but were unsuccessful. Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm. The news of MJs death spread quickly causing websites to shut down due to too many people being on the websites trying to find information. Sites like, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, and AOL Instant Messenger were all shut down at this point. Web traffic rose between 11% and 20%. Jackson's Music was all over the place, on TV´s all around the world. Jackson's memorial was on july 7, 2009 at the staples center in LA and after it was followed in a private family funeral service at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks Hall of Liberty.

When I was little, I grew up listening to Michael Jackson and we went the lake every summer and you wouldn’t ever hear any other music playing on our boat. Me and my dad loved him and to be honest, that was one of the only things we ever bonded over. I remember the first time I heard him sing and I was in the backseat of my dad’s truck and I asked my dad if it was a girl singing, I was probably like 4 or 5 years old. I also had this little MP3 player and literally every song I could find of Michael Jackson was on that IPod. it was my favorite thing ever and I loved it. When I was 7 it was summertime and I remember being at home and my dad telling me that Michael Jackson died and cried and cried because I was never going to see him in concert. So all summer I would hear people listening to MJ’s music at the lake and I remember my dad said “It sucks that people only get recognition when they pass away and are more appreciated after they are gone”. The november following Michael Jackson's death, i had my 8th birthday party and the theme was Michael Jackson and there was music videos playing on my TV in the living room and my cake had so many pictures of Michael and I had dressed like MJ and it was by far my absolute favorite birthday ever. My whole life, all i can remember is everyone loving Michael in my family, and that's something we all knew we agreed on. I still, to this day, have every song on my phone and many t-shirts with him on it.

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