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Sway “The King Full Stop” **OFFICIAL VIDEO** (Michael Jackson Tribute From London Fan)
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Jackson, Jackson,
The legend Michael Jackson,
Forever remember where you was when it happened,
Everybody staring at phones reading their flashes
In hope it was just a rumour and sooner well get the facts in.
Ill always remember the spot where I was standing
Exact same spot where I felt like collapsing.
Our relationship with music he has always been the captain
Even after confirmation it sunk, it never sank in.
The same year I was born Michael brought you Thriller.
Funny the 1st ever album that I was brought was Thriller.
Out of this world his moonwalk done brought us all together.
An important figure cant figure a human force thats bigger.
It wasnt right how the media handled Mike
Disgusting how theyre always discussing if he was black or white.
His mum was black, his dad was black so it aint rocket science to say hes black alright.
But that didnt matter to him, cause he was not racist.
Self proclaimed Bad thus he caught cases
There aint a smooth criminal without court cases.
Said he was touching, I said he was touching all nations,
Even before Dangerous hes like a thousand times bigger than rest
Rewind his tape like a thousand times Elvis was a great and Lennon was a Legend and Michael J was like both over a thousand times.
They said that his sales declined but after about 750 million whats left to yell about?
There aint a music act that doesnt owe Jacko, jack
So hes always gonna sell as long as theyre about
Watching his life was an honour and I dont mean no kinda disrespect to Madonna
But Michael was on a different level, and he adopted all of us in his songs
While he was trying to heal the world like a doctor.
I hope the money goes to the kids, as I hold these two O2 tickets. For his 50 date tour less than 50 days away so from his death at 50 wish he had 50 days more but never got half, pasted on the 25th of June and we should remember this day as his.
I believe he never left and he would never leave, never been a legend that lived that can ever breathe, never been a martyr that fought that can forever bleed, never been a leader that walked, that can forever lead, God will give him to us same God will to take him from us. Now hes in his rightful place cause he was so heavenly. All for one and one for all he made a song for all, so I put a copy of his Off The Wall on the wall.
My town misses him, your town misses him, everybody since motown misses him. Now when you think of him picture him standing on a stage with his hand up one glove glistening, whole world at a standstill listening anticipating his next move the King is him.
From age 5 and the days of J5 hes never took a break, no rest to take 5, therell never be a next the rest just aint Mike.
Time to pay our respects and watch the angels take flight
Out into the sky and never ever land, cos his house was in the sky and never, never never land.
Under all the pressure he never ever ran, hes the best forever damn, who dressed forever glam.
The biggest man on the planet, not just a brother to Janet, our thoughts go out to his family,
He gave his hearts to the fans and he paved the way for the future, still his flame is in you, cos he inspired song writers, record labels, producers,
They saying Michael Jackson was the King of Pop.
But Im saying he was the King full stop.
People saying Michael Jackson was the King of Pop,
but Im saying he was the King full stop.
Michael Jackson’s personal chef has spoken out about the day the King of Pop died.
Posted by: | CommentsMichael Jackson’s personal chef has spoken out about the day the King of Pop died.
Celebrity chef Kai Chase, who had been invited to London to cook for Jacko during his series of comeback concerts at the O2 Arena, said she first knew something was wrong when Michael’s doctor, Conrad Murray, failed to pick up Michael’s breakfast of juices and granola as usual.
She said: “I thought maybe Mr Jackson is sleeping late; at about 12:05 or 12:10 Dr Murray runs down the steps and screams, ‘Go get Prince!’”
She continued: “He’s screaming very loud. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Prince (Michael’s oldest son) runs to meet Dr Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change.
“I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs.”
At that point, Kai, 37, said the children, their nanny, a housekeeper and her all held hands and began to pray.
At about 1:30pm, she said, security guards told her and other staff to leave the mansion because “Mr. Jackson was being taken to the hospital.”
When she came outside ambulances were in the courtyard and a crowd had gathered.
The chef added that Dr Murray sometimes joined them for dinner, that he conferred with her about the 50-year-old pop singer’s food and made sure that he ate.
The only oddity was the oxygen tanks the doctor brought downstairs after staying the night, Kai said. She said she never asked about the purpose of the oxygen and she saw no sign that Michael was on drugs or was in failing health.
Authorities have searched Dr Murray’s Las Vegas home and medical office as part of an investigation that included raids last week of his clinic and storage in Houston.
The request for Kai to accompany Jacko to London was personally made to her by his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael II.
“Prince said, ‘Daddy wants me to tell you he wants you to go to London with us,”‘ she said. “I said, ‘Tell your daddy that I’m pleased and honoured.”
Kai had already filled out paperwork and submitted a copy of her passport to the Jackson staff and expected to leave for London on July 3.
On June 23, she said Jackson told her: “I’m packed and I’m ready to go.” Two days later, he was dead.
On most days, she said, Dr Murray would bring Jackson the special fruit juice drinks she had prepared for him, followed by granola with almond milk. For lunch, Jackson would eat with the children from a menu that included spinach salad and chicken. Dinner would consist of a dish like seared ahi tuna.
“I came to the house and the first people I met were the kids. They started interviewing me,” she said. “They told me: ‘We’re into healthy eating.”
“We developed a really great bond,” she added.
Most days, she said, Jackson made a point of having both lunch and dinner with the children, Prince, 11-year-old Paris; and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, and each meal was preceded by Paris saying grace.
After weeks of healthy food, she said she wrote Jackson a note with a suggestion: “I said, ‘What about doing comfort-food Saturdays? We could do barbecued chicken and corn on the cob, maybe Mexican food or soul food.”‘
She said he loved the idea, but as the concerts approached, healthy eating returned full time.
“He said, ‘I’m a dancer,’ and he wanted food that would not make him cramp up while he was dancing.”
The chef, who has also worked for Macy Gray, Jamie Foxx and catered a fundraiser for President Barack Obama, now treasures little notes she received from the children and from Jackson and a present he gave her.
“One day he handed me a little gift bag and said, ‘This is for you from me and the children.’ He had given me an iPod Touch because the children told him I still had a Walkman. It had the 25th anniversary ‘Thriller’ album loaded on it.”
She said she has visited with the children since Jackson’s death and they are doing well. “They have so many cousins to play with.”
As for her future, she said Jackson encouraged her to write a cookbook and she has written one tentatively titled, “Fit for a King.” It includes recipes she cooked for Jackson and the story of the time she worked for him.
“He was an inspiration to me,” she said.
La Toya Jackson seen visiting cemetery
Posted by: | CommentsSeveral carloads of people, Michael Jackson’s sister La Toya among them, came and went from a heavily secured Los Angeles cemetery after sunset Monday, but it was not immediately clear whether they were there for a private viewing.
Shortly before the cars began arriving, a hearse drove up to the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn cemetery with at least five police cars.
The hearse pulled partly in through the door of the Hall of Liberty — a 1,200-seat auditorium on the grounds — so that any casket unloaded and loaded would not be visible to the media helicopters overhead.
The main Michael Jackson memorial service at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday will be a star-studded affair, with singers Mariah Carey, Usher and Stevie Wonder among the participants, according to an announcement released Monday on behalf of the Jackson family.
Also participating in the event will be basketball stars Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, and singers Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Smokey Robinson, the family said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III will be among others taking part.
Meanwhile, the Jackson family would not comment on the after-hours gathering that took place Monday evening. Cemetery officials, likewise, have been tight-lipped about plans to bury the singer.
CNN learned that relatives will hold a private gathering at the cemetery at 8 a.m. Tuesday (11 a.m. ET) — two hours before the massive memorial service at the Staples Center.
The California Highway Patrol will escort members of the family from the Encino, California, home of Jackson’s parents to the cemetery.
Afterward, police will escort the family to the Staples Center, sources close to the planning said.
Jackson lawyer Burt Levitch said Monday that the singer’s funeral will be Tuesday, but did not say what time or place.
On Sunday, Los Angeles Assistant Police Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters that Forest Lawn officials were working with the Jackson family on their plans, which were part of “a package” of events Tuesday.
“It’s a package, basically,” McDonnell said. “Forest Lawn has their staff that are also working on their needs relative to the cemetery with them.”
Though there are five Forest Lawn cemeteries in the Los Angeles area, a long line of media trucks and crews have been parked at the gate of the Hollywood Hills facility for several days in anticipation of Jackson’s possible interment there.
Ken Ehrlich, known for producing the Grammy Awards, is producing the public memorial show, his company said. Kenny Ortega, who was to have co-directed Jackson’s series of concerts in London, England, this summer, will direct it.
Mayer posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon saying “I’m going not to ‘perform’ but to contribute.”
“I’m honored to have been asked to play at MJ’s memorial service. I will be representing all of us who can’t be there,” Mayer tweeted. “Going to say goodbye from all us kids.”
One notable who won’t be attending: longtime Jackson friend Elizabeth Taylor, who put out a message on Twitter that she “cannot be part of the public whoopla.”
“I just don’t believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others,” Taylor tweeted. “How I feel is between us. Not a public event.”
“I love him too much,” she added, “and I cannot guarantee that I would be coherent to say a word.”
Debbie Rowe, Jackson’s former wife and the mother of his two oldest children, will not attend the memorial service, her lawyer Marta Almli said Monday.
“Although Debbie had originally planned to attend [Tuesday's] Staples Center memorial service, we have concluded with Debbie that she will not be attending,” a statement from Almli said. “The onslaught of media attention has made it clear her attendance would be an unnecessary distraction to an event that should focus exclusively on Michael’s legacy. Debbie will continue to celebrate Michael’s memory privately.”
Fans claim tickets
Fans without tickets to the memorial are being asked to stay away from downtown Los Angeles and watch the service on television.
The family decided to provide a free live video feed to networks so it would be televised everywhere.
“Everything about the memorial has to do with accommodating as many fans as possible,” Ken Sunshine, the Jackson family spokesman, said.
On Monday, fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson’s memorial began arriving at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to pick up their tickets. Full story
Los Angeles Police Capt. Bill Murphy said the distribution process was going smoothly.
Each winner gets two tickets, bringing the number awarded in the lottery to 17,500.
Just 11,000 of those are for seats inside the Staples Center. The other 6,500 would be for viewing the memorial telecast at the adjacent Nokia Theater. AEG Live, the promoter of Michael Jackson’s London shows, owns and operates both venues.
Executors control Jackson’s assets
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted control of Jackson’s assets to the executors of his will Monday.
The executors — John Branca, Jackson’s longtime personal attorney, and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime friend — had sought immediate control of the entertainer’s assets at a hearing before Judge Mitchell Beckloff.
The judge appointed the men as special administrators until another hearing August 3. He said they will be responsible for protecting the state from immediate losses.
The men can enter into new ventures only with court approval, Beckloff said.
Jackson died June 25. Since the next day, his mother, Katherine, has been administering the assets.
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Michael Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe will attend the pop superstar’s memorial service.
Posted by: | CommentsMichael Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe will attend the pop superstar’s memorial service.
Former Jackson business associate Marc Schaffel said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Rowe was confirmed for VIP seats. Rowe is the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry said she’d “love it” if the Jacksons helped defray some of the city’s expected costs associated with Tuesday’s memorial, but that officials hadn’t heard from the family.
Perry said the city didn’t immediately have an estimate of those costs. More than 1.6 million fans registered online for a chance to attend the Staples Center ceremony, and only 8,750 names were chosen. Los Angeles officials are concerned about other fans clogging city streets.
“We’re encouraging people to stay away,” Perry said on CBS’ “The Early Show” on Monday.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, in an appearance Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” made no mention of whether the Jacksons would help the city with some of the expected costs.
“The city is trying to do what it should do to secure people,” said Sharpton, a family friend. “That’s what cities do. Clearly, no one in the family are happy that the city is incurring any expense at all. You’re talking about an historic figure that will have an historic celebration, probably one that we would not see similar in this generation.”
Meanwhile, lucky fans celebrated when they got an e-mail saying they had scored the hottest ticket in town. “Congratulations, your application was successful,” said the message sent to Deka Motanya, 27, of San Francisco.
She immediately Twittered: “OMG OMG OMG OMG i got tickets to the michael jackson memorial service!!!”
It was a real-life version of Willy Wonka’s golden tickets. Each selected person gets a pair of free tickets, with the odds of being chosen about 1 in 183.
Dozens of police officers and a fire truck were parked outside Dodger Stadium on Monday, where ticket winners could start picking up their coveted passes.
Nancy Kothari, 31, drove all night from Yuma, Arizona, to be at the stadium before the gates opened.
“I grew up with Michael Jackson, with his music,” Kothari said. “`Thriller’ was the first album I ever had.”
Kothari said she expected the service to be “extremely sad.”
“I’m kind of nervous in a way, but also excited,” she said.
Tickets were handed out in a drive-through process. Voucher holders had to get past a police checkpoint outside the stadium, then drive into a parking lot where orange traffic cones marked about 20 lanes. A police officer and an event staffer stood at the end of each lane. Drivers pulled up, handed over their vouchers, had a band placed on their wrist and were given tickets and another wristband.
Ticket winners were to show up with a unique code and instructions, and organizers were to check IDs to make sure those picking up wristbands were the same people who originally applied online, said Staples Center spokesman Michael Roth.
Fans must have both the ticket and the wristband to enter Staples Center on Tuesday. Wristbands that have been ripped, taped or tampered with will be voided.
But Roth acknowledged that high-priced scalping of the free passes was possible because winners were permitted to give anyone their second bracelet.
“Theoretically, the second wrist band can be sold,” Roth said.
Organizers were considering how to distribute any unclaimed seats, but had not immediately decided on a plan, Roth said.
The memorial service will be broadcast live on five television networks.
David Gobaud, 25, who studies computer science at Stanford University, said he didn’t believe his e-mail of acceptance was real at first. “It’s Michael Jackson, one of the greatest musical stars of all time,” he said.
Zach Moss, a 21-year-old ticket winner from Chicago who is working as a DJ in Las Vegas this summer, said clubgoers have responded strongly to Jackson’s music since his death.
“You can play two, three Michael Jackson songs back to back and people are going to have this huge jubilation celebration,” he said. “Everyone throws their drinks up and shouts, ‘MJ!’ It’s extremely powerful.”
The tickets will admit 11,000 people to the Staples Center plus 6,500 in the Nokia Theater overflow section next door. The streets around Staples Center will be closed to prevent those without tickets from trying to attend, police said.
Assistant Police Chief Jim McDonnell warned the ticketless to stay away. He would not say how many police would be on the job, but alluded to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the recent championship celebration for the Los Angeles Lakers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
“You’ll be standing in the hot sun on a city street with a lot of other people,” he said. “But not within eyeshot of Staples.”
The ceremony will not be shown on Staples’ giant outdoor TV screen and there will be no funeral procession through the city. No details were available about the actual memorial events.
The joyful anticipation among the chosen fans comes as the courts continue to untangle the future of Jackson’s estate and police probe the circumstances of his death.
Jackson died at age 50 on June 25 after going into cardiac arrest in the bedroom of his rented mansion. The cause of Jackson’s death has not been determined. Autopsy results are not expected for several weeks.
Jackson’s family was planning a private ceremony at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills, McDonnell said. He did not provide further details.
Television networks planning Jackson coverage
Posted by: | CommentsNBC executives changed their minds Sunday and decided to join other networks that will televise Michael Jackson’s memorial service live this week.
NBC joins ABC, CNN, MSNBC and E! Entertainment in offering the ceremony live. It’s set for 10 a.m. PDT (1700 GMT) Tuesday at Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
NBC had initially planned only a one-hour prime-time special on Tuesday night, but said Sunday it would also cover the event live. It was not immediately clear who would anchor.
Charles Gibson will anchor coverage for ABC, which is setting aside its typical daytime programming.
CBS anchor Katie Couric will be at the Staples Center, although the network had not yet said whether it was offering live coverage of the memorial.
CNN has seen its ratings soar with the Jackson story, and it will show the memorial on the main network and HLN (formerly Headline News). CNN International will air the ceremony to the rest of the world. Anderson Cooper, Larry King and Don Lemon are the anchors for CNN coverage. Robin Meade, A.J. Hammer and Jane Velez-Mitchell will anchor at HLN. CNN en Espanol also will cover it.
Chris Jansing will anchor live coverage of the memorial on MSNBC. Fox News Channel hadn’t announced its plans.
E! Entertainment will cover the ceremony on its television network and its Web site.
Why, Michael?!
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Why? Why? Why?
How can the sun still come up when your life has stopped?
How can it still shine so brightly when you are not here anymore?
How can we still get up every morning and „pretend” as „nothing” happened?
How can we just carry on and live our lives when you can’t?
…. can I just make the time stop, can I make the rain pour as my tears from my eyes?
…. can I just stand still for a while and remember you?
…. can I just scream and shout and not to accept that you are gone and want to know why, why, why?????
I’m very proud to say I lived in the days of Michael Jackson!!!
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I was in disbelief 1 week ago when I 1st heard the tragic news. I’m still wishing so much that it wasn’t true. Shortly after the numbness wore off my thoughts & prayers immediately went to his family/friends & the pain they must be feeling. Not to mention all his adoring fans worldwide. I also reflected on my 1st impression of MJ which came from the movie THE WIZ. His performance, as w/ everything he did, was unbelievable. He’s was so sincere as the Scarecrow. I found myself crying as I watched it again that night. My hope in his death is that everyone remember the wonderful music, talent & charity he has shared w/ us. Don’t let the media-frenzy influence YOUR unique individual relationship w/ Michael Jackson. That’s one of the greatest things about him. He’s the only person in history that everyone living now can say they had knowledge of whether you like him or not. Be proud of that & listen to his music often & DANCE because that is what he would want.
Thank you so much for all that you did, Michael Jackson, and may you be at peace.
Misha Estelle Smith (34yrs old, Phoenix, AZ)
Rest In Piece Michael! :(
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Devastated when I heard you had left us! My mum was also In tears! You had some really tough times (in which I always backed you!) but your music will live on forever! Nobody will have the impact that you have had on millions of people throughout the world like you have! you were a loving person who just wanted peace in the world and to have fun! I really hope you are happy now and at peace! We all Miss You! And You Are a massive loss to the world and it will never be the same again! 
R.I.P Michael Jackson (The True King Of Pop!)
Dale Gordon (Sheffield United Kingdom)
Rest in Peace Michael
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I´m still shocked somehow!!I still can not believe that this GREAT Musican and Friend died.I see myself crying every single day.Life is not the same without you,Michael!!
The only thing that keeps me up is the fact…that you are where you belong…in Heaven…with the Angels!!!Thou you are defenetly the biggest Angel there!!!!!!Like you were on Earth.Michael..WE ALL will NEVER forget YOU.
“WE WILL NEVER LET YOU PART….YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEART!!!!
Rest in peace
I love you Michael Jackson