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ever since I was

born Daddy has been the best father you

could ever imagine

and I just wanted to say I love him so

much as Michael Jackson's daughter broke

down at his memorial service millions of

fans around the world shared her

pain and the pain continued as debate

raged over what was the cause of the

singer's premature

death 2 years on and after a 6 we trial

in Los Angeles Michael Jackson's

personal physician Conrad Murray was

found guilty of the involuntary

manslaughter of the 50-year-old

singer refine

your the court found Murray guilty of

giving Michael Jackson a fatal dose of

propol a powerful anesthetic normally

only administered in

hospital no competent physician would

give these drugs without having

emergency Airway equipment present

during the trial 49 Witnesses and more

than 300 pieces of evidence were

presented to the court we the jury and

the above entitled action find the

defendant Conrad Robert Murray guilty of

the crime of involuntary manslaughter

Conrad Murray was jailed for 4 years and

labeled Dangerous by the judge he will

lose his medical license it brings to an

end the final chapter in the

extraordinary Saga of Michael Jackson's

life and Unexpected death

this is a look at the true story behind

the singer who's been officially

recognized as the most successful

entertainer of all time nobody demands

the attention that Michael Jackson does

so you're talking about someone who's

not just a great artist great writer

great performer but he was a visualist

as well he was incredible there was

something that just radiated life in his

work life and all of its extremes we'll

be examining Michael Jackson's

extraordinary life and shockingly

premature death and what made him the

man he

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was over the past 40 years no other

celebrity has been as respected or as

reviled as Michael Jackson probably the

most famous pop star of all time Michael

Jackson had exceptional

talent but he lived a controversial life

and died a controversial death

during Dr Conrad Murray's trial an audio

tape of Michael Jackson sounding heavily

sedated a month before his death was

played in court it was discovered on

Murray's cell phone and was used by the

prosecution to prove that Michael had

put his life in the hands of his

doctor you

believe my show I want say I never seen

nothing like this in my life in his

closing argument the prosecution said

the doctor caused the star's death on

June 25th 2009 through negligence

depriving Jackson's children of their

father and the world of a genius the

defense argument that Jackson was a drug

addict who caused his own death by

giving himself an extra dose of propo

was

overthrown of course I think that his

death could be prevented if he had a

good physician I just believe believe he

was in the wrong hands my friends in the

medical profession were shocked when

they heard that Michael had been using

this drug because they told me they

never let it be used outside of Hospital

conditions to take it in a domestic

situation is to invite a tragedy Dr

Murray violated the most

basic um aspects of the of the doctor

patient relationship it was gross

neglect someone like Michael Jackson

should have had a proper

doctor with Dr Murray behind bars for

some anger about what happened in the

Stars Final hours was combined with a

feeling of relief that allegations that

Michael had taken his own life had been

thoroughly

disproved he had so much going for him

he wouldn't have done it a for his

children which meant everything to him

he he there's no question that that

Michael would ever have have killed

himself of course despite his tragic

early death the legend of Michael

Jackson the man who became known as the

King of Pop is destined to live on so

what was it about Michael Jackson's

contribution to music dance and fashion

and his much publicized personal life

that caused him to be such a global

phenomenon Michael Joseph Jackson was

Bor born in the industrial city of Gary

in Indiana on the 29th of August

1958 the 7eventh of nine

children his father Joseph Jackson a

steel mill worker recognized his

children's musical talents and organized

a family band made up of Jackie Germaine

Tito and

Marlin in 1963 when Michael was just

five he also joined the

group Joe was a firm disciplinarian

who scheduled a strict regime for

Michael and his brothers and their

Relentless hours of practice left very

little time for normal childhood

activities did you meet Joe I've met Joe

a few times and um well he's um he's the

father of Michael but they are so

totally different um like J and cheese

if you look at his background he's come

from basic he was a welder in a very

poor town in Mid America and uh has been

catapulted through on the back of his

children into some huge stardom Michael

is is is probably like complete opposite

Michael described his relationship with

his father as

turbulent Joe was so determined his sons

would be successful that in rehearsals a

fumbled note or a misstep could lead to

harsh physical

punishment Michael himself

talked of the horror of uh being beaten

by his father whipped was the word and

how his father would sit there as they

were rehearsing with a belt waiting to

smack them if they got it wrong but then

on the other hand he called his father a

genius for instilling in them the

discipline to present this slick stage

act from my analysis I believe that

Michael was a very sensitive very very

sensitive kind of individual so even

though you you have a really strict

strict parents there are some children

that can handle that strictness but

there are other children it really

affects them people respond to that kind

of abuse differently and with some of

the other brothers I think that you know

it didn't impact them the same way

psychologically that it did Michael it

really hurt him and he carried it

throughout the rest of his life you know

that his father drove him and pushed him

but never treated him like a son every

time he would speak about his father his

face would contort you could see that he

was really really stressed about his

experience with his father it definitely

had a damaging effect on him it really

did Michael later said he was made to

work too hard for a child but also

recalled singing and dancing with real

joy as a

youngster he did discuss um his

childhood with me um and I think that

he's been quite open about his childhood

in terms of his relationship with his

father I think what the public doesn't

know is that he forgave his father

father for some of the hurt that was

caused and at the end of his life he was

very much on good terms with his father

so I think that a lot of the things that

they happened a long time ago and you

know Michael forgave I think if Joe

didn't do what he did there would have

been no Michael Jackson I'm not one of

these people that say you know point the

finger at the father he took a very poor

family took a talent that He Saw and he

gave it to the

World by the time he was was eight

Michael had emerged as the group's lead

vocalist the Jackson brothers changed

their name to the Jackson 5 and toured

clubs all over the American

Midwest Joe Jackson was always very very

certain that he was going to turn his

children into Stars think it was

probably pretty disturbing to him in

many ways that Michael was the brother

who very clearly was the most talented

because he was never particularly close

to Michael and he always probably gave

Michael the harshest treatment Michael

was already showing a remarkable range

in depth for such a young performer

impressing audiences with his great

dancing and ability to convey complex

emotions after winning a major local

talent show with Renditions of mtown

hits and James Brown's I got you the

jackson5 were signed by Barry Gordy to

the legendary mtown record label

when I first heard him saying Smokey

Robinson's uh who's loving you at 10

years

old he sung it like he felt he had been

here he had known the song for 50 years

the pain the torture he could put that

into music and lyrics and feeling you

know Michael was just absolutely

brilliant brilliant the group was an

instant sensation their debut single I

want you back back rocketed immediately

to number one in the states and sold

over a million

copies when you put the needle down and

I want you back you were

floored first of all the thrilling piano

gando and then that wailing melisma from

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Michael so charismatic

and then he lands on the first word

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when and he had us at the first word we

already were owned by this extraordinary

young talent I want you back is just the

Classic pop song uh you know just bursts

right out of the speakers and there's so

much vibrancy to the to the record it

was a little bit a little bit of soul

but also what was referred to as

bubblegum pop baby give me one more

chance when you heard that song you

completely started singing along you

couldn't it was infectious it wasn't

just it about it being catchy but it was

also the vocal delivery was fantastic by

this little man with his brothers behind

him it was just like wow how did they do

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that everybody was just fanatical about

them I mean you want to your hair like

them you wanted to wear the same clothes

I mean you just didn't even want to go

to school anymore I mean that's how it

was for us we were

obsessed he transcended color all

barriers everybody just loved

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them

but Michael the youngest and the lead

was only 11 years old but the record

label claimed he was even younger saying

he was just nine to make him appear even

cuter The Jackson 5 demonstrated the

traditional Paradox of child stars kids

energy combined with unbelievably

professional dance moves it was obvious

that uh Joe the father had instilled in

them the necessity to be visually as

well as musically appealing and of

course those giant afro

helped and the colorful shirts and the

bell bottom trousers they were the real

deal and they were instantly imitated

across the culture Jackson Mania swept

the nation and within a year of their

debut The Jackson 5 were among the

biggest names in popular music all four

of the Jackson 5's first singles reached

the number one spot in the United States

and were also International

hits most agreed that it was Michael

with his extraordinary versatile voice

and smooth dance moves who is the

principal reason for the Jackson 5's

amazing International

appeal Michael even at that early age

had emotional Insight whether this was

because he was the youngest brother and

had been subjected

to what we are told were brutalities by

the

father whether he had this loneliness

that he said he did he was emotionally

aware before most young people

and he could invest a lyric with an

emotional delivery as a kid Michael was

always Beyond his

years he was an innovator he

was uh a genius at what he did having

the experience of being a child star led

to his strong friendship with Mark

Lester who had made his name as a child

actor in the title role of the 1968 film

Oliver Michael St started at the age of

five I started at the age of five so you

know we were always kind of comparing

obviously Michael's Fame was infinitely

more than mine but um you know having

being in the in the spotlight at such an

early age and we used to share memories

about our early times he said you know

when when these tetiny bot magazines

came out were in the states there's one

called Tiger Beat I think and 17 there

were four people that used to feature

and one of them was Michael who

obviously dominated ated Donnie Osmond

uh David Cassidy myself oh and Jack Wild

so there was five who not always but

were kind of the ones that were were

shown most in these magazines and

Michael would pick up these magazines

and quite often there would be a page of

Michael and the next page would be me so

he's kind of thought there was some some

sort of parallelism between

us he did tell me that he enjoyed the

film Oliver and it was his favorite

musical and it remained his favorite

musical all his life which was kind of

odd coming from Michael who has

dominated the pop charts for so long and

made so many wonderful records for him

to tell me that this was his favorite

music was something else it was quite an

honor really in 1972 Michael got his

first taste of solo success with the

title song to the film Ben which was a

hit

worldwide throughout these early days it

was clear Michael was using every

opportunity to prepare for his

future when he wasn't performing he was

to the side of the stage in the Apollo

in the Regal and he was watching people

like James Brown and people like Smokey

Robinson and Jackie Wilson and he was

watching and learning and picking things

up and so he was such a student uh of

his craft that um when it was time for

him to Branch out on his own he had a

lot of ideas by 19 1975 after 13 albums

and countless top 10 hits mtown and the

Jacksons were to part

company with a fresh start at Epic

Records and renamed simply The Jacksons

the journey was far from Over the hits

just kept on coming in 1977 Michael

Jackson starred in a feature film The

Whiz a remake of The Wizard of Oz

featuring an all black cast Michael

played the Scarecrow and Diana Ross

played Dorothy

it was on the set of the whiz that

Michael was introduced to Quincy Jones

which led to Jones producing Michael's

first astonishing and original solo

album off thewall the first single

released was Don't Stop Till You Get

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Enough Don't Stop Till You Get Enough

went straight to number one there's just

so much energy in it rhythmically it

complex and it's just amazing the kind

of

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craftsmanship his mother actually was

concerned about the title of the song

because it could be interpreted

sexually uh and and Michael told her you

know people will think what they want to

think you know and so he kind of wanted

to leave it open like that and just kind

of be a bit Koy with him

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where we

are Don't Stop Till You Get Enough was a

really significant turning point for

Michael Jackson because it proved that

he was the solo Jackson

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now when that song came out and he was

just on his own and that that video you

can never forget that video cuz there's

nothing else in the video except for him

in a suit dancing

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off the- wall established Michael as an

artist of undeniable talent and a star

in his own right it went platinum

selling over 7 million copies the

album's success led to Michael's 9-year

partnership with Quincy

Jones their next collaboration was the

album Thriller in

1982 the first single released the girl

is mine did not suggest great things it

was a nice pop song a duet with Paul

McCartney got to number two I think

million Celler but not a classic then

Billy Jean and the ground moves beneath

us Billy Jean is is probably Michael's

most famous song it became this big hit

with a very unusual theme um it's a

darker song It's a song about distrust

and anxiety and paranoia she was more

like a beauty queen from a movie scene I

sh don't mind but what do you mean I am

the one Michael was beginning to write

songs that that maybe got people to

dance still but also that were exploring

some of the things that he was

experiencing the Billy Jean story from

my memory was to do with all the fans

that used to come to see them especially

in the Jackson 5 time and I think

Michael was really shocked at the way

people were so psychopatic about

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them he had an amazing um amazing

creative mind that he would take this

fanaticism that was aimed at him and

turn it into this kind of story in a

song

just that I am the one with Billy Jean

you just got this classic Baseline and

then you just have this amazing the

strings and the kind of atmosphere of it

sometimes Michael doesn't get the credit

that he deserves as a composer but this

was a song that Michael had very um

close to finish at his home studio but

then they brought it in and just

polished that and perfected

it my son

the Billy Jean video was impressive

because he could see it was an actual

film set and he every time he would walk

on the steps the lights would come on

he's practiced these dance steps till he

knows them in his sleep he mastered

everything the timing was impeccable it

was incredible how he was able to take a

set and turn it

into something that you couldn't get

your eyes off from the time he was

walking down the street past the

buildings you were captivated I it's

quite a simple idea you think about it

but he executed it in a way that had you

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mesmerized it's a historic hit for a

variety of reasons it

forced MTV to play videos by black

artists Walter yetnikoff who was the

head of CBS at the time said if you

don't put Billy Jean on you're not

getting our videos because Billy Jean

was such a big hit and MTV had to recan

and ever since then of course there have

been black artists on MTV beat it the

third single from Thriller with its Van

Halen guitar solo managed to broaden

Michael Jackson's appeal bringing in

Rock Fans the title track Thriller was

released as the fourth single written by

Rod temperton the writing Talent behind

several of Michael Jackson's songs it

was in a class of its own it's an 18

you've got Rod temperton who's an

amazing writer you've got Quincy Jones

the most incredible producer of all time

but then you've got this incredible

artist Michael Jackson three incredible

musicians who are who are just at the

top of what they do this is what created

Thriller you knew from the very first

introduction D the minute you hear that

you're

hooked it's just incredible it's such a

powerful intro it's

clil

the the video was unprecedented for its

time with a duration of over 14 minutes

John Landis who's this renowned director

comes in he's done horror but with kind

of a a satiric edge to it and so he

comes in combines his talents with

Michael Jackson and you get you get this

video um that becomes a phenomenon

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Prosthetics created by visual effects

artist Rick Baker and dazzling

choreography made for an impressive

video it was so popular that a

documentary the making of Michael

Jackson's Thriller became the world's

largest selling home video everybody was

obsessed you walking down the street

everyone was dressing like Michael

Jackson everyone had the same clothes on

I mean we're

talking everyone was Thriller everyone

became Michael Jackson That's how big a

phenomena it was youit

the realiz there's nowhere to

run one memorable part of the single is

the distinctive spooky voice of horror

movie actor Vincent

Price they had begun recording and

Quincy Jones said you know what if we

brought in Vincent Price and Michael

didn't know who he was at the time but

once Quincy kind of familiarized him uh

Michael was all on board and they

brought in Vincent Price and I think it

took one or two

takes for no moral can

resist the evil of the

Thriller the album Thriller became a

huge hit reaching number one in the

United States and the United Kingdom at

the same time

it remained in the top 10 in the US

Billboard Chart for an entire year an

incredible seven of the nine songs were

top 10

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singles Michael's ability to fuse

different musical influences was

unique he was drawing from such a rich

diverse background um so he was fusing

things that normally wouldn't be fused

it's one thing for for Michael to be

mimicking James Brown it's another thing

for Michael Jackson to be fusing James

Brown With You know Fred aair or Charlie

Chaplan when you see it in his short

films and when you hear it in his music

you can kind of see how he's bringing

different elements together today

Thriller retains its position as the

world's bestselling record of all time

with an estimated

110 million copies sold worldwide during

the 1980s Michael Jackson was as famous

in interally as many of the world's

leading political and religious figures

by the age of only 25 the New York Times

summed him up as a musical phenomenon

stating that in the world of pop music

there is Michael Jackson and then

there's everybody else Michael Jackson

is one of the few artists to have been

inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame twice his Awards include eight

Guinness world records including one for

Thriller as the world's bestselling

album 13 Grammy Awards and 13 number one

singles in his solo

career Michael was honored with a star

on Hollywood Boulevard and received a

further Accolade when he was presented

with the greatest artist of the decade

award by President Bush at the White

House those who performed or recorded

with Michael often spoke of how

impressive he was to work with Michael

was looking for three males and a female

and um so four of us went in together

and the four of us had worked together

in studio situations before we had

auditioned for him and we were

videotaped and he liked us he's

completely tuned in what he's doing as

well as being tuned into what you're

doing behind him and that's nice for a

singer because um he can appreciate what

we do because it's what he does and he

has an ear for that and and if you do

something that he likes then he he

comments on it and you don't always get

that with with really big people you

know he could be just tuned in what he's

doing and then split but he's not you

know he knows exactly what's going on

and he appreciates what's making his

show exactly what he saw in the very

beginning it was at the 25th anniversary

of mtown in 1982 that Michael singing

Billy Jean unveiled his now famous

moonwalk he was reinterpreting the song

in new ways uh and allowing people to

experience it uh both sonically and

Visually it received worldwide media

coverage

by this time MTV which had in the past

been reluctant to give air time to black

artists was scoring its top ratings with

Michael's

videos a bizarre firework accident in

1984 when Michael was performing Billy

jeene with his four brothers for a Pepsi

Cola commercial resulted in Michael

suffering second deegree Burns to his

head plastic surgery was required to

restore his appearance

Brian oxman the Jackson family lawyer

claims the medication prescribed to

Michael Jackson during this time led to

his long-term addiction to

painkillers when he burnt his hair at

the Pepsi commercial he started using

painkillers then he then fell from a

stage and broke his leg he also cracked

a vertebrae in his back and those things

have caused him terrible

pain in 1987 the album Bad was released

bad is the last of the trilogy produced

by Quincy Jones by the time bad comes

around Michael's self-image has changed

with off-the-wall he wanted to make an

important Hit album after off the- wall

he felt the work underrecognized and was

hungry for Mass acceptance across the

pop world he achieved that with thriller

so now he's beginning to worry about his

personal image and so he poses on the

sleeve of bad looking like a tough guy

in that respect bad was the

beginning of the personality Cult of

Michael Jackson the title track bad was

actually intended as a duet with Prince

Michael had already written the song and

Prince really liked it and Prince said

that he you know it'd be a number one

hit uh but he felt like it was set up

for Michael to win uh you know cuz they

were going to do this big music video

where they're kind of having a dance off

and you know all this kind of drama to

it so Prince backed out and Michael

ended up doing it as a solo and uh it

was a number one

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hit Michael's New edgier Look took some

admirers by

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surprise it was a huge change for

everyone we couldn't believe his image

had Chang that much gone with the

suits and his hair had like Jerry curl

you know like a wet look and he had on

this leather jacket you know with you

know very rockar and we' never seen

Michael look hard like that you know it

was like he' looked like he was this

rock

man at the time I I have to be honest

when I heard bad I was a little bit like

I don't know if I'm feeling him doing

that but what made me change my mind was

the video cuz when I saw the video I was

just like wow this is great cuz they're

in the subway you can't help but watch

that and that made the song better for

me

visual by now Michael Jackson was at the

peak of his Fame with the Bad Tour

attracting huge media attention the

world over before taking to the stage in

the UK Michael presented Prince Charles

and Princess Diana with a

300,000 check from the proceeds of his

Wembley concerts for the prince's trust

a charity supporting disadvantaged

children Michael presented Princess

Diana with two custommade bad World Tour

jackets one each for her young Sons

Prince William and Prince Harry

in 1988 Michael Jackson set up built and

conceived I guess Netherland which is

obviously the place where he would go on

to live for most of the rest of his life

here was a growing man at the peak of

his success who felt the need to live in

a huge amusement park named after the

mythical Island in JM Barry's novel

Peter Pan Neverland was Michael's

fantasy theme park it had a

Ferris wheel and other over-the-top

amusements built on a 3,000 acre ranch

in Santa Barbara California Neverland

was maintained by 54 full-time staff it

was a child's dream world Michael even

had a pet

chimpanzee I was invited to Neverland

the gates open the wooden gates opened

you it's like this yellow brick road

Charli and the Chocolate Factory and

Disney World all combined you know it

was just it was an escape there was a

time we went over to to Netherland my

little girls were about 6 and seven then

and we spent a week with Michael and

Neverland and we went on all the rides

we went around the zoo we had our own

Cinema we could see whatever films we

wanted to see and at the end of the um

at the end of the week that we were

there I said to the girls I said okay

we've been here for a week what's the

best thing you like about Neverland and

my two girls both exactly the same time

said Michael this was a man who having

the money to do anything with his

property chose to make it look like a

child's

home obviously he had

created a paradise for

children but not just other children him

the child as

well Michael would invite children

especially sick children to spend the

day there hoping to create warm

childhood memories for his many young

visitors the thing that struck me about

nland it was packed with underprivileged

children from around the world and there

was coach loads and it cost so much

millions to

run throughout his life Michael Jackson

was a passionate supporter of

Charity in 1992 he set up his own

charity found found a that he called

Heal the World the name of a track from

dangerous the album he had just

released are we blind to the fact that

our children are raging against the

indifference crying out against the

abandonment of thundering against the

neglect heal the kids is about doing

something about making a difference in

trying to help adults and parents

realize that it is our power to change

the world that our children live

in he did so much for charity I mean

this was a tireless Giver he was a total

absolute Giver what they would try to do

in the media would try they would try to

say that you know his charity ran out of

money and you'd hear stories like that

it's not being run properly they haven't

really gone into how much he has done

regarding terminally ill children cancer

stricken kids I mean this is someone

who's done so much you don't see that

side of him very often they don't say

much about it in the media and I I think

that's sad Michael gave so much I think

he's the most generous Entertainer

that's ever lived I think that's in the

Guinness Book of Records he's second to

Bill Gates as a person um for for all

that he's given Michael it's now my

great pleasure to present you with a

check for $1

million this represents the money

pepsicola pledges to raise in Europe

this summer with our best wishes for

Heal the World

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in America the song Black or White was

the most successful track from

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dangerous what people often forget with

the black or white video is that it was

Michael's most controversial video and

it was

censored about my baby it don't matter

if you're black

you have this main part of it that most

people are familiar with you know where

it's kind of a celebration of diversity

and I told about equality and it's

either

or what happens after the end of the

main music video is a black panther

sneaks off of the stage and then

Michael's conveying kind of the darker

side of the song and of racism and

Michael Jackson just unleashes this raw

expression of indignation and you know

conveys violence he's breaking in

Windows you know there's this like

sexuality to it but it's an aggressive

sexuality and so people didn't know what

to make of

it when we first um saw dangerous and

saw Michael's image completely change

again and he had become even whiter I

think everyone was very very concerned

and everyone was starting to think he

didn't like being black anymore then he

comes out with the song from dangerous

called Black or White and we suddenly

went well for goodness sake you've gone

whiter and then you've put out a song

called Black or White what's going on

here many people thought that Michael

Jackson over a period of time had been

bleaching his skin so this was a real

statement for him because he was

essentially responding to those

criticisms through song and saying why

does it matter if I'm black or white

it's only later on obviously way down

the road what 15 years later you find

out that he had Vitiligo which is a

serious skin condition uh where you

completely lose pigment he definitely

had Vitiligo um which you know the the

interesting thing about that is that a

lot of people didn't believe him and you

know it took really until he died and

the autopsy report actually indicated

that he had Vitiligo stars were all

about mystery then it's not like now

where you know everything about an

artist the artist was supposed to be an

enigma and I don't feel that they

thought it was the right thing to tell

the public what was really going on with

Michael imagine being somebody that

grows up in front of the world and you

have this pretty unusual skin condition

and people are saying things like you

are ashamed of your race you know and

you don't want to be black you're trying

to be

white Michael's appearance had altered

so much it was clear the changes weren't

all to do with his skin

condition if if you're going to

understand why Michael Jackson would

have plastic surgery you've got to

understand that he was a human being and

he was subject to the insecurities that

we all have and when at an early age he

was frequently criticized by his father

it hurt him and having been told

numerous times his nose was too big when

he could afford to not have it so big he

made it smaller all of those experiences

when he was young contributed to this

kind of desire to change his physical

appearance and he was also an artist and

he kind of began to treat his face as a

work of art you know he had this kind of

various ideals of perfection that he was

trying to achieve um physically Michael

Jackson's dramatic change in appearance

prompted all sorts of media

speculation there were rumors that he

and his sister Latoya were the same

person and that he was trying to make

himself look like Diana Ross It's been

said that Michael Jackson underwent

plastic surgery to make himself look

more like you I don't think so is that

true no I well I don't think he has no

one's ever told me he's never told me

that I don't think so but is it

unnerving for you to have a young man

that's undergone plastic surgery to make

himself look like you well I don't think

he's trying to look like me I really

don't I think he wants to look like what

he perceives as makes him feel happy

about himself you know I don't think

he's trying to look like me I do think

he's quite beautiful though by the way

so many people really don't know him and

they don't give him a chance and they're

so ready to criticize and I think what

happens is when you see genius and when

you see a talent that is just

Unstoppable and

Untouchable the first reaction people

have is to criticize it because it

scares them it threatens them and it

sort of it um in order to augment their

own selfworth they feel that they have

to belittle him back up you get all you

want in the summer of 1993 Michael

Jackson's life was turned upside down

when he was accused of sexually abusing

a 13-year-old

boy the accusations of child abuse at

his Neverland Ranch were immediately

denied the case was settled out of court

for a reputed $20 million and no formal

charges were

brought now if if this really went on do

you think a father would accept money

that that would make it okay that that

would make everything all right it

doesn't make any sense I know that if

that were my son I'm sorry I don't care

if you gave me a billion

dollars I want to see you either behind

bars are dead for doing that to my son

or my daughter it it's crazy the guy was

after money is what he

wanted it was just after this in May

1994 that he married Lisa Marie Presley

whose father was one of the few men who

could rival Michael's worldwide Fame the

marriage to Lisa Marie prisley was

completely fascinating I mean it

dominated the Tabloid agenda both in the

UK and in the US here was the biggest

music star of the last decade

undisputedly marrying the daughter of

the biggest music star of all time Elvis

Presley at the time he was in the midst

of these allegations all of a sudden

people were very very concerned about

the way that he looked he was incredibly

gaunt incredibly white looked IC Ally

enhanced and not in a good way so why

would this young beautiful upand

cominging daughter of a famous celebrity

decide to enter into this marriage

someone who's Michael Jackson the

biggest star in the world he can't

really just walk down the road and go

out with anyone can he you got to think

about it his demographic would have to

be someone like you know Lisa I think

that's probably why in his mind it would

have been okay cuz she would get his

level of Fame and notoriety and

everything else I mean it was completely

fascinating and I think to this day no

one really knows what the situation was

between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie

Presley she hasn't spoken about it much

and it was a very bizarre chapter in

both of their lives despite media

speculation about The credibility of the

relationship Lisa Marie and Michael

publicly denounced rumors and declared

their love was

genuine the marriage was short-lived and

ended on amicable terms in 1996

within a year of the separation

Michael's association with his

dermatologist's assistant Deborah row

led to an announcement that she was

pregnant with his first

child Michael had wanted kids for a long

time in fact he wanted kids with Lisa

Marie Presley which is one of the

reasons why they got a divorce and with

with Debbie row she came to Michael and

said that she would give him a child um

and that she would essentially be a

surrogate mother and and provide Michael

what he always wanted which was uh to

have children soon after this the couple

were married in

Australia Deborah gave birth to a son

Prince Michael Jackson Jr followed by a

daughter Paris Michael

Catherine but the relationship was not

to last by Autumn 1999 the couple

announced their intention to divorce

with full custody of the children going

to Michael in 2002 Michael announced the

birth of another son Prince Michael II

also known as blanket and to this day

the mother's name remains a

mystery

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anotherone the single You Are Not Alone

from Michael's album history released in

1995 remains commercially one of Michael

Jackson's most successful

songs goodbye

the lyrics to You Are Not Alone from his

first album since the child sex abuse

allegations managed to link the

incidents of Michael's recent past and

media obsession with him with a feeling

of

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isolation You are not alone as one of

those songs that can be interpreted in a

variety of ways I think a lot of people

when they heard it interpreted it as a

love song but it was also a song where

it conveyed a certain degree of

isolation the toll of a life in the

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spotlight I here to

stay it was a real Michael Jackson

ballad in the true sense of the word and

it did become a huge hit for him I guess

really Against All Odds because the

music video was incredibly strange I

mean it featured Michael Jackson almost

naked under the sheets with his wife

Lisa Marie Presley and it was a very odd

music video but the song has been one of

Michael's most enduring

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years Michael's Music was increasingly

dealing with the world issues he saw as

important you you start to see with the

Dangerous album with the history album A

lot of the songs you know it's no longer

about relationships or dancing you know

Michael's tackling big social themes was

very interesting actually because the

release of History did not go down well

it was a greatest hits package combined

with a new album and there are a whole

load of stunts which were really derided

for example Michael Jackson deciding to

send a massive statue of himself down

the river Tim in London despite him

being still caught up in all of these

allegations of child abuse but actually

I always felt like history was probably

his most underrated album ever I mean

some of the songs to come from history

are completely iconic They Don't Really

Care About Us Earth song Scream You Are

Not Alone it was a huge album but by

that point it almost didn't matter what

Michael Jackson released there were

enough questions about him as a person

that

actually his music was again

overshadowed all through his life the

more Michael tried to protect his

privacy the more fascinated the Press

became with him and the more absurd the

stories became 99.9% of what's written

about him is was false I read that his

nose went missing I think it was in The

Daily Mirror that's I me it's absolutely

crazy but I think what it is is that

perhaps there's an ounce of Truth in

what's written but it's totally

embellished you know what the media is

like it's called propaganda they take

anything and they blow it out we're

family you saw the way we grew up in the

two-bedroom house family is more

important than all the success in

anything and we're always going to hold

on to to that their whole thing is to

divide and conquer and to separate us

we're family we're family we have

children we hurt just like everyone else

he was very hurt by um the misreport

reportings in the Press but I think he

his defense mechanism was actually was

not to read them don't let it you know

they can say they're going to say

whatever they're going to say anyway so

just don't read don't get involved with

it cuz I said to him one day I said why

don't you just sue them and he said Mark

if I was to sue everyone that wrote

something about me that was untrue I'd

be in caught every single day so it just

wasn't worth it for him so he just

decided to let it

go in 200 W Invincible became the last

album of new material that Michael

Jackson released during his

lifetime though it received mixed

reviews and suffered from The Fallout of

a dispute with Sony it still managed to

make it to number one in 11 countries

including the

US But as time went on Michael's Life as

a musician was almost eclipsed by the

endless gossip surrounding his

lifestyle curiosity and controversy were

were his constant companions an incident

in 2002 which was circulated around the

world showed Michael holding his baby

out of a Berlin hotel window for his

chanting fans to

see it created uproar I was in the room

when it happened when I saw it on the

camera I thought oh God that looks

really awful but actually below the

window of the hotel is ledge that comes

out quite away and if Michael had held

the baby quite firmly anyway and it was

just a gesture of to say this is my new

child you and then it got he got

absolutely slammed for it but there that

baby was in no danger at all ever and in

fact when we didn't think anything of it

until after he' done it and the fans

were all clapping and cheering until

till the next day when um it came out in

the papers and we and then I saw the

news clip and I thought well yeah that

does look a bit um scary it was fool

Hardy therefore we must ask ourselves

why did he do it and the answer is that

the feelings he had which motivated him

to do it were greater than even his

concern for the child and that

is I want to present to you my new Cub

as in The Lion King at the beginning the

circle of life when the new Cub is held

up of course in this case it happened to

be over the balcony which was really

dumb but he didn't think about that he

didn't I'm sure he didn't look down and

think oh is there a balcony there or not

he was just holding the kid up the

incident naturally led to all sorts of

speculation in the Press about Michael's

abilities as a

father much worse was to come in 2003 he

was accused of sexually abusing another

boy and this time he was charged and

taken to court as Michael professed his

innocence on the surface he appeared to

be handling the situation well but the

lengthy trial took its

toll I would like to

thank the fans around the world can you

speak up please I would like to thank

the fans around the world for your love

and your support from every corner of

the earth my family who's been very

supportive my brother Randy who's been

incredible I want to thank the community

of Santa Maria I I want you to know that

I I love the community of Santa Maria

very much

it's my community I love the people I

will always love the people my children

were born in this community my home is

in this community I will always love

this community from the bottom of my

heart that's why I moved here thank you

very much when I first met Michael he

had control in his life and I think the

control started slipping away 2003

onwards when he sank deeper into despair

over the false accusations in the last

few few weeks a large amount of ugly

malicious information has been released

into the media about me the information

is disgusting and false it took a lot

out of him that I mean he didn't eat

very well sleeping very badly and uh

that probably took 10 years off him I

should think please keep an open mind

and let me have my day in court I

deserve a fair trial like every other

American citizen I will be acquitted and

Vindicated when the truth is told

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when the trial began hordes of Michael

supporters held vigil for him outside

the

courthouse when Michael arrived at court

he jumped on the top of his car and

started

dancing and the pressure was enormous

for him I mean of course we knew that he

was innocent of all charges but you know

a lot of innocent men have been found

guilty and evidence can fall one way or

the other so the stress of 3 months of

going to caught every single day

he looked thin he looked anemic almost I

mean he it was

just I think that really

was probably the worst thing in in his

life as far as his health goes and and

his mental state the child sex abuse

trial was something that Michael Jackson

had always wanted to avoid this was his

worst nightmare he was pretty clear to

those around him that he thought a trial

of this kind would kill him and the

effect on his health was really

significant I think we all remember

those pictures of Michael Jackson

turning up in court in his pajamas or

just not turning up at all he was in uh

terrible discomfort during the entire

trial proceedings he's going to go home

recuperate rest and relax and he'll be

back on Monday and he's looking forward

to being here he went to the emergency

and he went to the emergency room this

morning and he was given medications so

he'll be back on Monday and we all thank

you so very much you take care there was

very limited sympathy for him I mean the

Tabloid headlines the day he did turn up

to court in his pajamas was banana in

pajamas I think the world felt for the

first time at least the world of the

media that actually maybe these years

and years and years of of managing to

get around the law however he had done

that had finally caught up with Michael

like to let the world know that I'm

behind my son I don't believe any of

this stuff that's being written about

him cuz I raised him and I know him and

that's just a statement people are

making we support our brother

wholeheartedly and um um we stand by by

his side and there is we're in the

process of planning a trip with the

whole family to to visit

him on June the 13th 2005 Michael

Jackson was found not guilty and

completely cleared of all

charges there was no African-American on

the jury there was so many search

warrant so many months of Investigation

so many million dollars and they didn't

even get an alcohol charge they put it

in to get something they didn't even get

that it didn't go to show how guilty he

was it went to show how innocent he is

how clean he is they went through his

house with a fine comb and um the lady

that brought the charges later went

ended up in jail for fraud so you know I

mean Michael was a victim it's thought

that the anxiety caused by the trial had

a serious detrimental effect on

Michael's

health and this stress along with the

constant pain he felt with his back and

other ailments led to a dependency on

prescription

drugs the man was in pain and there was

no question about it he needed to have

certain medications but the problem

becomes the overuse of medications and

that something which people I think all

people find very difficult to control he

simply wasn't able to control it over

the years Michael's friends claim they

did their best to help him overcome his

dependency I warned him many times I

shouted at

him on several occasions and I actually

told him verbally Michael this will kill

you Michael you will die and when I went

into his bathroom I saw lots and lots of

pill

boxes um of various different medication

um in there there was demoral there was

paxel zolof demoral is a painkiller and

paxel and zoff they're

anti-depressants when I saw these things

in the bathroom I wasn't thinking oh you

know he's he's a drug addict or anything

like that I was thinking maybe he's sick

and I wanted to know but and I kept on

asking him what what's happening and he

was like and no everything's routine you

know it's all

okay in the Years following the sexual

abuse trial despite being cleared of the

charges Michael in many ways appeared a

Broken

Man there were then numerous reports

that Michael Jackson was having

financial problems and he was no longer

enjoying the same level of success with

his

music the world wasn't prepared to see

beyond Michael's eccentricity

and the scandals that had overshadowed

his life Michael Jackson is an

incredible artist you know and artists

aren't always normal you know in fact

some of the greatest artists are are

very eccentric very unique very

different and Michael was a great artist

he uh lived his life in a different way

in an unusual way but when we go back to

those songs when we go back to those

videos when we go back to those albums

we find uh just an incred incredibly

Rich diverse array of art that deserves

attention Michael's enduring appeal was

proved in March 2009 when he announced a

number of comeback concerts at the O2

Arena in

London London

welcomes the king of popop Mr Michael

Jackson

these will

be my final

show performances in

London this is it and see you in

July Michael Jackson's announcement of

10 concerts here is certainly a coup for

the O2 Arena and if those concerts go

well the expectation is that he'll add

many more dates the questions still

remain about whether the Michael Jackson

of today can still cut it live on such a

big stage it's a staggering show that's

what Michael Jackson does and so

therefore you're talking about absolute

the the top of of energy and he has to

be you know almost plugged into glucose

cuz that's the only way he's going to

get through it well money was a huge

factor for Michael Jackson over his

final years he was broke he had lived

well beyond his means so the idea behind

these farewell concerts that he was very

passionate about was not only that he

could go out in the way that he wanted

to on stage but also that he'd make the

millions and millions of dollars which

he desperately needed thousands of fans

from all over the world converged on the

O2 Arena to buy tickets proving that the

mega star's appeal was as strong as it

had ever been we came from the west of

Ireland yesterday or on Wednesday

morning and we've been queuing since it

was so hard to get the tickets I just

for I just took the risk and just come

down here spend the night and I just

don't care when you're looking forward

to something you don't really suffer

that we had rain our tent got flooded

but just cuz we knew that we were going

to see Michael none of that stuff

matters cuz we're here for Michael we'll

do anything let me State this the man

came back sold out a bigger tour than

he's ever done in his Heyday it sold out

50 dates I think something like a

million tickets in 4

hours so he was very loved and he was

very supported I don't think he has to

prove anything to pull it off I mean

he's a legend he is I mean Michael

Jackson's going to turn up and do his

shows and um everybody will see that you

know the next

chapter there were conflicting reports

on the state of Michael Jackson's Health

in the lead up to the

concerts the last time I saw Michael was

at the conference um at the O2 you know

they say he looked high they say he

looked sedated

I would say he looked that he

was focused the last time I saw Michael

was in March

2009 and to me he did look underway he

did he looked a lot thinner than I'd

ever seen him before and I don't think

he looked particularly healthy he just

seemed frail to me Michael Jackson

weighed the correct for his height he

had the best dietician that you can get

the initial announcement was of 10

concerts which were going to be held at

the O2 Arena a massive venue in East

London and after they sold out they just

kept adding dates I don't think it was

reasonable to expect somebody of 50 to

do 50 concerts in 6 months I just think

that that's too hard he just didn't have

enough time to prepare for it you know

and so much was writing on that and it

put an enormous strain on him enormous

strain and I just don't think it was

very fair on him and I think in some

respects it was quite

irresponsible very irresponsible after

Michael announced the concerts he stayed

in London and my family came up and we

spent the weekend with with Michael

before he flew back to the states he was

in a really good positive mood I mean he

was in such a positive frame of mind

best I've seen him for for a long time

he told me his children had never seen

him perform they'd seen obviously video

and DVD footage of him on stage but

they'd have never actually seen him live

so this was something he Not only was

doing for his fans but mainly for his

children I pulled him aside and said

Mikey why now okay and he said to me he

said cuz you know what my kids are old

enough and I'm still young enough to do

what I do and don't wanted them to see

me you know in my Prime when I when

I but the children never would see him

perform the world would never see the

comeback Michael Jackson had

promised fire paramedic 33 would is yed

emergency yes sir I need to uh I need an

ambulance as soon as possible sir okay

sir what's your address it's 100 North

carolwood Drive Los Angeles California

90077 you said Carol Wood Carol Wood

Drive yes

yes on June 25th 2009 the Los Angeles

Fire Department responded to the 100

block of carolwood at 1221 and 18

seconds unfortunately at the time the

dispatcher answered the phone call and

and never once did the caller ever

identify to the Los Angeles Fire

Department that the person that needed

our help was Michael Jackson and what's

the prop time exactly what happened uh

sir I have a we have a a gentleman here

that needs help and he's not breathing

he he's not breathing and we need to

we're trying to pump him but he's not

he's not okay how old is he he's uh 50

years old sir 50 okay he's unconscious

he's not breathing yes he's not

breathing sir okay and he's not

conscious either he's not he's not

conscious sir

okay all right do you have any is he on

the floor where's he at right now he's

on the bed sir he's on the bed okay

let's get him on the floor okay okay

let's get him down to the floor I'm

going to help you with CPR right now

okay when our paramedic heard that it

was being cprs being conducted on the

bed gave explicit direct emphatic

direction for that patient to be moved

from the bed and CPR to be done on the

ground okay okay let's get him down to

the floor I'm going to help you with CPR

right now okay we need them get we need

yes we're already on our way there we're

on our way I'm going to do as much I can

to help you over the phone we're already

on our way did anybody see him yes we

have a personal doctor here with him sir

oh you have a doctor there Dr Murray

said that he would take full

responsibility for the patient what that

does for us is that now the doctor

becomes the highest level of a medical

Authority if he would have denied we

would have asked him to step aside and

the paramedics would have been the

highest medical authority to give care

to Michael Jackson he's not responding

to anything to no no he's not responding

to CPR or anything oh okay well we're on

our way there if your guys's doing CPR

you're instructed by a doctor he has a

high Authority than me and he's there on

scene um did anybody witness what

happened um no just the doctor sir the

doctor's been the only one here okay so

did the doctor see what happened uh um

doctor did you see what happened

sir sir you just uh um if you can please

uh we're on our way we're on our way the

question is why did it take Dr Murray so

long to dial 911 only Dr Murray can

answer that question obviously Fast

Response save lies why Dr Murray took so

long and whoever long he noticed that

Michael Jackson was down it's

unexplainable to us I'm just I'm just

passing these questions on to my

paramedic SP they're on way there sir

thank you sir he's pumping he's pumping

his chest but he's not responding to

anything sir please okay okay we're on

our way we worked 45 minutes because as

paramedics we call it the golden hour

obviously we try to tell the community

when someone is pulseless and non-

breathing you call 911 immediately

wherever you live we're less than a mile

away and we'll be there shortly thank

you sir thank you okay sir call us back

you need help thank you sir bye yes sir

the singer Michael Jackson is reported

to have died about 3 hours ago he was

not breathing when paramedics arrived

they performed heart massage and then

they took him to the UCLA Medical Center

in the city where he said to have gone

into a deep coma he was pronounced dead

a short time ago the singer had been due

in London for a series of concerts

during the

summer I am somewhat numb I shocked at

the passing of Michael Jackson you know

it's uh like a dream a bad

dream he was so much like a son to

me it's just hard to realize that

Michael Jackson is not

here unless you are a fan of Michael

Jackson in the way that so many millions

of people are and the way that I am you

you can't begin to understand the loss

that we're feeling I don't know I can't

stop

crying he meant so much to

me it's hard to deal with it and it's

still hard to believe I think you saw

when when Michael Jackson died uh

something that maybe certain people

didn't expect which is that there was

this huge

outpouring across the world there was

just the generations of Michael Jackson

that were celebrating his life because

his work resonated for them and it

resonated across cultures it resonated

across age groups across

Generations Michael's work was able to

cross divisions uh and and Reach people

after a small private funeral Jackson's

death triggered a global outpouring of

grief and it was reported that as many

as 1 billion people around the world

watched his public memorial service the

star studied emotional ceremony took

place at the Los Angeles Staples Center

it saddens me that there are so many

people in Los Angeles who when he died

claimed to be his friend and yet where

were they why didn't they help him I

think we drove him to a lot of things

the world could have done more to

appreciate him to let him know enjoy

yourself we love you you're good you're

very good it's sad that we wanted so so

much from the man that we kept saying

more and more more rather than saying

hey no more from you rest up enjoy your

life Michael had been rehearsing in LA

right up to the night before he

died getting set for his upcoming London

shows so there were serious questions

about what had caused him a man who

appeared so fit to die so unexpectedly

at the age of just 50 just the night

before he died Jackson was here at the

Staple Center in La rehearsing for his

upcoming London shows and by all

accounts it was a pretty energetic

performance running through 10 or 11

songs and dances after which Jackson's

manager says the singer came up and put

his arm around him and told him I am so

happy this is really our

time at these rather less glamorous

Studios Jackson had a tough schedule for

the last few months people here who

watched him rehearse said he was thin

and frail but he seemed fit he was you

know up to par he was at his best and he

was ready to um to come back and just

wow us all

away a documentary featuring Michael

preparing for the This Is It Tour The

Comeback that was never to be shows an

energetic performer he wanted to come

back badly in a great way he was a

perfectionist so he wanted these

concerts to be close to perfection

and that creates stress that creates

anxiety he reportedly had once said to

Lisa Marie Presley I have this terrible

feeling I'm going to go the way your old

man did meaning die young but

actually he really did go the way of

Elvis which is that they both had an

incredible number of drugs in their body

I thought that for the past 15 years

Michael had obviously been on a downward

trajectory in terms of his relationship

with reality and his perception of

himself what really was the Shocker was

the revelation of the extent of the drug

use which no responsible physician would

have allowed within hours of his death

from Cardiac Arrest police became

suspicious about the doctors Who

provided Jackson with a steady supply of

prescription

drugs though it was over 7 months before

Dr Conrad Murray was arrested

and another 18 months before he was

brought to

trial within 6 weeks Murray had been

found guilty of involuntary

manslaughter he was sentenced to the

maximum jail term of 4 years bringing

some kind of closure for Michael

Jackson's family and many fans the world

over the court has determined that the

appropriate term is the high term of

four years

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of course Michael's musical Legacy will

live on just as Dr Murray began his jail

sentence Cirus Le embarked on a 47 City

Immortal World Tour celebrating Michael

Jackson the most elaborate of many

tributes that have followed the singer's

death another sign that despite his

troubled life Michael Jackson will

always be remembered for his

extraordinary musical genius

you're talking about someone who's not

just a great artist great writer great

performer but he was a visualist as well

he was incredible

nobody creates the attention demands the

attention that Michael Jackson does

Michael Jackson doesn't just come along

once in a century or a

lifetime he only comes along once we had

the benefit of enjoying him while he was

here and we would enjoy him forever

through his music music there was

something genuine there was something

exuberant there was something that just

radiated life in his work life in all of

its extremes even when Michael Jackson

sang a cliche he could inject it with

life and that was his gift

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