Tributes pour in for the late King Of Pop….
Four years on and almost all of us can still remember the exact moment when they discovered that Michael Jackson, the most influential artist of all time, had suddenly died just weeks before the star was meant to be playing a staggering 50 dates at London’s 02 Arena for his ‘This Is It’ residency.
And four years later, his loss is still as felt as fesh as ever as millions of fans have taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the legend that was Michael Jackson.
Unsurprisingly fans from across the world have flooded to the site today expressing how much the ‘Thriller’ icon changed their lives with @KateSangalang8 posting: “Michael Jackson, he was honestly my biggest idol since I was 6, till now im 17. Love him so much. The TRUE LEGEND <3”
While @WiLD_hOOligan tweeted: “RIP to the greatest entertainer of all time. The legendary MIchael Jackson. It’s been four years and your gone but never ever forgotten.?”(sic)
@TheMosMorales showed his devastaion four years on writing: “Four years since we lost an icon, was too young and too talented. R.I.P. king of pop Michael Jackson”
Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958. He was the seventh child of nine children to Joseph and Katherine Jackson and was born into a typical working class family. The city of Gary is 25 miles from downtown Chicago and is famous for its massive steel industry. It took its name from the chairman of U.S. Steel, Elbert H Gary, and is nicknamed ‘City of Century’ – we’re hoping for ironic reasons.
Michael showed a prodigious talent for music from a very early age, often singing in front of his classmates at school. In 1964, aged six, he joined the group his older brothers formed called The Jackson Brothers and performed backing vocals and congas. By 1966 the family collective had renamed themselves The Jackson 5 and Michael and Jermaine had assumed vocal duties. They toured the Midwest extensively, even playing in adult strip joints. (Image: WENN.com)
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After winning a local talent show, The Jackson 5 signed to Steeltown Records in their native Gary in 1967. Michael was nine years old at the time. During their brief time with the imprint they released tracks such as the above ‘Big Boy’ and ‘We Don’t Have To Be Over 21 To Fall In Love’. The still impossibly young Michael was fast becoming the perfect showman and was promoted to frontman at around the time they signed for legendary label Motown Records in 1968. (Image: WENN.com)
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As a PR stunt Motown Records decided to leak to the press the untruth that Diana Ross was the person who discovered The Jackson 5 (she was introduced to them). Ross formally introduced the family collective to the public at a Beverly Hills club called Daisy on August 11, 1969. Michael left the audience spellbound. Their first Motown release – and their only single from their album Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 - ‘I Want You Back’ reached number one in the US in January 1970.
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Released over a period of less than a year, The Jackson 5′s first four singles - ‘I Want You Back’, ‘ABC’, ‘The Love You Save’, ‘I’ll Be There’ - all went to number one on the Billboard Chart, setting a new record in the process. Michael’s soulful and emotive voice was undoubtedly the centrepiece of the songs. Motown Record execs allegedly lied that Michael was aged nine, two years younger than his real age of 11, to make him seem more endearing to the public. (Image: WENN.com)
Source: entertainmentwise / MJ-Upbeat.com
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