FOREVER THE KING: MICHEAL JACKSON
MICHAEL JACKSON R.I.P** On June 25, 2009, Jackson collapsed at a rented home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles. Attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician were unsuccessful.[163] Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics received a 911 call at 12:21 pm (PDT),[164] and arrived nine minutes later at Jackson's location. He was reportedly not breathing and CPR was performed.[165] Resuscitation efforts continued both en route to the UCLA Medical Center, and for an hour further after arriving at approximately 1:14 pm (20:14 UTC).[163] He was noted to have already been in cardiac arrest by the paramedics who attended his house.[165] Jackson was pronounced dead at about 2:26 pm local time (21:26 UTC).[166] Many news organizations were generally very cautious about the initial reports of his death.[167]
Media and a crowd outside the UCLA Medical Center following his death
The death was transferred to the Los Angeles County Coroner for investigation.[163] Jackson's body was transported by helicopter from UCLA to the LA Coroner's offices in Lincoln Heights.[168][169] The autopsy was scheduled for Friday, June 26, 2009.[166] A final verdict on Michael Jackson's autopsy will only be possible after the toxicology test results are confirmed, which could take six to eight weeks.[170] It has been reported that police are preparing to interview Michael Jackson's personal doctor after the star's family suggested he died because of a drug overdose of Demerol, an opioid similar to morphine.[171]
Jackson's death caused a large-scale outpouring of grief among fans, as they gathered outside the UCLA Medical Center and his Holmby Hills home.[172] Fans also gathered in New York City outside the Apollo Theater[173] and in Detroit outside Hitsville U.S.A., the old Motown headquarters now the Motown Museum where fans created a shrine.[174] A small crowd which included the city's mayor also gathered outside of Jackson's childhood home in Gary.[175] In the U.S. House of Representatives, Representatives Diane Watson and Jesse Jackson Jr spoke about Michael Jackson, before asking members to observe a moment of silence in his honour.[176] In the United Kingdom, writers for the BBC soap opera EastEnders added a last-minute scene for the June 26 episode of the show where Denise Wicks (Diane Parish) tells Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) of Jackson's death. A spokesperson claimed the last-minute scene was added to "reflect to some extent the impact Michael Jackson's death has had".[177]
News of Jackson's death spread quickly online, causing many websites to experience technical difficulties following the unanticipated swell of users. Google announced technical difficulties after a sudden increase in searches for "Michael Jackson", which led the company to believe it was under attack from malicious hackers. Social networking site Twitter reported a crash after a record number of users used the site, spreading the news of Jackson's death.[178] AIM, an instant messaging service operated by America Online, went offline for forty minutes.[179] The company called it a "seminal moment in Internet history" and added "We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth."[179] Wikipedia also experienced technical difficulties, and crashed at 3:15 PDT, reportedly due to excessive edits and user overload.[167]
In the hours following Jackson's death, his record sales increased dramatically. Thriller climbed to number one on the American iTunes music chart, while another eight have made it into the top 40.[180] In the UK, where Jackson would have performed in less than three weeks, his albums occupied 14 of the top 20 places on the Amazon.co.uk sales chart with Off The Wall topping the chart. Nine of his albums were featured on the American iTunes Top 10 chart, including Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, and three compilations. In the UK iTunes store on June 26, thirty-nine of Jackson's songs were in the Top 100 best selling songs list, in addition to four Jackson 5 songs. Eight of his albums took over the top ten downloaded albums and the top five video downloads were all Michael Jackson videos. Along with this he also entered into the top ten single downloads with "Man in the Mirror".[181]
Less than four months before Jackson's death, one of his biographers, Ian Halperin, revealed that Jackson had a library of over 100 unreleased songs which he planned to have released after his death to support his children.[182]- Wikipedia.com
ALl of these photos were taken before mj passed, jus some of the many items in Neverland Ranch
