GRIEF ACROSS THE WORLD AS MICHAEL JACKSON DIES
Jun 27th, 2009 by admin
I was not going to blog about the passing of Michael Jackson but i got a mail saying i should say something. What can i say…..Indeed, he left an indelible legacy which will remain forever. I remember listenining to those wonderful lyrics as a child. His immense contribution to music was felt all over the world. He set a pace and truly the world has lost a gem.
Michael Joseph Jac-kson, the man who gave the world the bt break dance and the biggest selling record in human history, has been reported dead two months to his 51st birthday.
He died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital in the United States , closing the chapter on the story of a man who became world-famous as a child, charmed the world with his dance steps and hit songs – and left the stage with more myths and puzzles in his trail.
The Los Angeles Times reported on its website yesterday that “Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.”
The TMZ entertainment website had broken the news which shocked the world, coming a month to his scheduled comeback tour.
TMZ said on its website that “Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.”
Earlier, the Los Angeles Times said the singer had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by fire department paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived at the singer’s home.
The newspaper said paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene before taking him to the UCLA Medical Center hospital.
Jackson had been due to start a series of concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past two months.
The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.
His lifetime record sales tally is believed to be around 750 million, which, added to the 13 Grammy Awards he received, makes him one of the most successful entertainers of all time.
He lived as a virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on charges of child molestation.
There were concerns about Jackson ‘s health in recent years but the promoters of the London shows, AEG Live, said in March that Jackson had passed a four-and-a-half hour physical examination with independent doctors.
Culled from This Day