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THURSDAY JUNE 25 2009 6:30 PM

The King of Pop Is Dead

Submitted by Clio

Edited by Clio

Tags: Michael Jackson, heart attack, Los Angeles, death

Reportedly, pop icon Michael Jackson has passed away after suffering from cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home earlier today. The singer was rushed to the hospital in a coma but paramedics were unable to revive him, after which he was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. The King of Pop was 50 years old.

With a career starting as early as age eleven with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson is widely considered one of the most influential artists of the past century, and remains one of the world's best-selling musician of all time. The singer was in Los Angeles rehearsing for his upcoming sold-out performances next month which have obviously been canceled.

Jackson is survived by his three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.

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Comments

Jena

New York, NY

June 2003

JUN 27, 2009 01:02 AM

hatefulerin said:

Jena said:
Pretty young things, repeat after me

Say: na na na

Na na na!

Na na na na na, na na na na na

I'll take you there. ♥

Crivelli

United Kingdom

January 2005

JUN 27, 2009 02:48 AM

You're all na na's.

KISS

Homestead, FL

November 2006

JUN 27, 2009 07:43 AM

justplainleonard said:
Well, he stopped being a musical genius years ago. His stuff was great, especially Off The Wall. Thriller was an iconic album, like it or not (I don't).

After those two albums his musical genious DID NOT just stop. Although his albums after did not make as much noise and singles didn't become as big as before, his music was still beautiful and had all the right notes of what made him a start in the first place and he still sang about what he believed in as far as changing the world. To this day there is not ONE song I do not absolutely love.

(then again thats a matter of opinion, but just because the whole world didn't go ape shit over his last pieces of work doesn't mean it wasnt great)

Fabrizia

SUICIDEGIRL

New York, USA

JUN 29, 2009 05:26 PM

Sound said:

silversoul7 said:
A fitting obituary here

There are two things to say about him. He was a musical genius; and he was an abused child. By abuse, I do not mean sexual abuse; I mean he was used brutally and callously for money, and clearly imprisoned by a tyrannical father. He had no real childhood and spent much of his later life struggling to get one. He was spiritually and psychologically raped at a very early age - and never recovered. Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life.

But he had no compass to find one; no real friends to support and advise him; and money and fame imprisoned him in the delusions of narcissism and self-indulgence. Of course, he bears responsibility for his bizarre life. But the damage done to him by his own family and then by all those motivated more by money and power than by faith and love was irreparable in the end. He died a while ago. He remained for so long a walking human shell.

I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.

I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours' and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.

I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.

amazing piece.

Very well said.

Fabrizia

SUICIDEGIRL

New York, USA

JUN 29, 2009 05:27 PM

lil_tuffy said:

BIGBLAQ said:
I hate how some people are still trying to take some cheap shots at him. Although he must be responsible for the inappropriate acts that he committed, some folks refuse to understand what may have cause such behavior.

The cause of his actions do not justify his actions.

This is true.

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I'm lost

February 2006

JUL 03, 2009 11:20 PM

He was a great singer and entertainer.

I think professional song writers wrote most of the jackson five and solo material for mike.

He got to fucking wierd for me the last 25 yrs of his life.

RIP

Zephyria

USA

February 2009

JUL 07, 2009 07:13 PM

I will miss him. This makes me so sad....

JimmyAro

Savannah, GA

August 2007

JUL 08, 2009 12:26 PM

I can't stop laughing at this! It's more of a mass shuffle than a moonwalk.

Crivelli

United Kingdom

January 2005

JUL 08, 2009 12:48 PM

Is he still dead?

yumchen

Klamath Falls, OR

August 2002

JUL 08, 2009 01:04 PM

I am sad that he died right when he was trying to get his life and career back on track. I am really sad for his family, friends and children who loved him, and I am sad that we will get no new music from him.

That being sad, maybe angelina or madonna could adopt his kids?