The Ups and Downs of Michael Jackson… Life through pictures (60 pics)

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Michael Jackson from 1958 to 2009

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Michael Jackson’s Life and Career:

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Michael Jackson was just 12 when this picture was taken in May 1971, but his career was already stratospheric. Berry Gordy had signed the Jackson 5 to Motown Records in 1968, and Michael and his brothers had already topped the charts with "ABC" and "I'll Be There." It was a bright start for the boy from Gary, Ind.

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Michael Jackson, far left, and the rest of the Jackson Five in 1972. The five brothers from Indiana were signed to Berry Gordy's Motown record label.

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The Jackson 5 perform in Los Angeles on a 1970s Bob Hope TV special. Michael continued to front the band, but his solo career was already on the rise, starting with 1971's "Got to Be There."

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Michael Jackson at the opening of "The Wiz." The 1978 movie musical was the first time the pop star worked with legendary producer Quincy Jones, who would soon produce Jackson's breakout solo album "Off the Wall," and eventually the "Thriller" album as well. Jackson's "Wiz" co-star was friend and mentor Diana Ross, who had introduced the world to the Jackson 5 back in 1969.

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Michael Jackson and Diana Ross hold their American Music Awards in L.A. Jackson won for favorite soul album and Ross won for favorite female soul vocalist.

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Michael Jackson stands with a group of dancers dressed as zombies while filming his 1983 video "Thriller." "Thriller" was revolutionary in the music industry. The zombie-themed minimovie put MTV on the map and essentially confirmed music videos as an art form of their own. The album sold 25 million copies in the United States alone.

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Michael Jackson performs the moonwalk during "Billie Jean" for the first time on television's "Motown 25," a tribute to Berry Gordy. The dance move that would become Michael's trademark stunned viewers and the crowd, and marked his imminent crowning as the King of Pop.

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With Quincy Jones at his side, Michael Jackson holds six of the eight awards he won for "Thriller" at the 1984 Grammy Awards. His outfit, complete with epaulets, sequined glove and dark shades, became a quintessential Michael look.

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During a May 1984 ceremony at the White House, Michael Jackson accepts a Presidential Award from President Reagan as first lady Nancy Reagan looks on. Jackson was honored as a model for American youth, and for lending his hit song "Beat It" to a new campaign against drunk driving.

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Michael Jackson, background, is seen with his hair on fire during a taping of a Pepsi TV commercial in Los Angeles on February 1984 as brother Jermaine Jackson, foreground, continues to perform, apparently unaware of the situation.

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Michael Jackson is lead through a crowd by policeman on a 1985 promotionial tour of Great Britain in London.

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In January 1985, a who's who of the music and movie worlds came together to sing "We Are the World," written to benefit famine victims in Ethiopia. Michael Jackson can be seen front and center, along with Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor and dozens of other stars. Michael's sister Janet can be seen bottom right.

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Guitarist Eddie Van Halen, left, makes a July 1984 guest appearance during Michael Jackson's Victory Tour concert in Irving, Texas. Van Halen had recorded the now immortal guitar riff on "Beat It," to the displeasure of bandmate David Lee Roth, but to the delight of nearly everyone else.

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Michael Jackson and his dancers in concert during a 1987 Tokyo concert on Jackson's "Bad" tour. The previous year, he had starred in the 3-D film "Captain EO," one of the most expensive short films ever. But Jackson had begun to draw more criticism as his albums and videos grew costlier and more infrequent. His next album, "Dangerous," wouldn't arrive until 1991.

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A cameraman photographs Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey in January 1993. This was the year Jackson was first accused of child molestation, and he took an opportunity on a 90-minute Oprah TV special to address the charges. The criminal allegations eventually were dropped, but Jackson reportedly paid as much as $25 million to settle the claims.

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Michael Jackson gives a performance with 30,000 children during the Super Bowl XXVIII halftime show on Jan. 31, 1993, in Pasadena, Calif. Despite allegations against him, Jackson's career had regained momentum with hits such as "Black or White" and "Remember the Time," and the "Dangerous" album was a multiplatinum seller.

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Michael Jackson and French mime Marcel Marceau clowning for the cameras at the Beacon Theatre in New York on Dec. 4, 1995.

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Michael Jackson and then wife Lisa Marie Presley are seen at Neverland Ranch in preparation of the Children's World Summit in April 1995. Presley would file for divorce less than a year later, prompting speculation about just what had inspired the relationship.

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Michael Jackson performs on stage during is "HIStory" world tour concert at Ericsson Stadium in November 1996 in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Just months after his divorce from Lisa Marie, Michael Jackson walked down the aisle with Debbie Rowe. This wedding photo was released by Jackson's publicist minutes after the Nov. 13, 1996, ceremony in Sydney, Australia. But the pairing was less about romance and more about bearing Jackson a child, and the two would divorce three years later, with Rowe eventually ceding parental rights to Jackson.

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Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor arrive at a Sept. 7, 2001, concert celebrating the 30 years of Jackson's career. The two stars had been longtime friends, and Taylor is godmother to two of Michael's children.

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Michael Jackson testifies on Nov. 13, 2002 in Santa Maria, Calif. Superior Court in a trial in which he is accused of cancelling concert appearances, costing the promoter several million dollars.

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Michael Jackson poses for photographers during a November 2001 appearance in New York's Times Square. Jackson made his first ever in-store appearance to promote his new album "Invincible," which was released Oct. 30. "Invincible," at the time the most expensive album ever produced, fared better with critics and fans than 1995's "HIStory," but questions began to surface about the future of Jackson's career.

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Michael Jackson holds a towel-covered Prince Michael II over the balcony of a Berlin hotel on Nov. 19, 2002. Jackson later called the incident a "terrible mistake," but the image of him dangling his baby son out a window shocked even many die-hard fans. And his reputation was to receive far worse damage just a few months later.

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Michael Jackson is pictured in this Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department mug shot from Nov. 20, 2003. In a February 2003 documentary, Jackson acknowledged letting boys sleep in his bed. Soon after, Santa Barbara district attorney Tom Sneddon launched a probe into allegations that Jackson had molested a teen boy who appeared in the program. Authorities raided Neverland Ranch in November, and Jackson surrended for arrest days later.

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Michael, center, and sisters LaToya, left and Janet Jackson walk over to greet fans during a lunch break at a pretrial hearing in Santa Maria, Calif., in this Aug. 16, 2004, file photo.

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Michael Jackson wears pajama pants and is aided by bodyguards after arriving more than an hour late to court on Mar. 10, 2005, during his trial on the 2003 molestation charges. Jackson appeared after Judge Rodney Melville threatened to revoke his bail.

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Michael Jackson receives a letter of appreciation from Col. Robert M. Waltemeyer, the garrison commander of Camp Zama, on March 10, 2007, in Zama, Japan. Michael greeted thousands of U.S. troops and their family members at the U.S. Army base.

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Michael Jackson walks with kids Prince and Paris through a studio parking lot in Los Angeles in March 2009. The singer had been spotted with his entourage going to a studio on a cold rainy day in the city. The pop star stayed at the studio for more than two hours, and there were many production people working around him, suggesting that the star was filming.

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Fans take pictures of an electronic screen projecting a press conference by Michael Jackson at the O2 arena in London on March 5, 2009. The pop megastar announced he would play a series of comeback concerts in London in July, his first major shows in more than a decade

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Reaction of people to Michael Jackson’s death

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Crowds of fans gather outside of the Apollo Theater to remember pop star Michael Jackson on Thursday, June 25.

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Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, pauses for a moment before a news conference held after the death of Michael Jackson, Thursday, June 25.

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A woman cries on the phone as she tells a friend that Michael Jackson has passed away at UCLA Medical Plaza, Thursday, June 25, in Los Angeles. The iconic pop star, 50, was rushed to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest, according to reports.

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Tyson Stevens, center, joins other fans on Thursday to remember Michael Jackson at the star they believe belongs to the pop star, but actually belongs to a radio personality of the same name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks in front of the Apollo Theater to the media on Thursday about the death of Michael Jackson.

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Curator Curtis Huber, left, and curator assistant Eric Valencia lift a wax figure of Michael Jackson to put in the front display at the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on Thursday.

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Lana Brown, a tourist from Dallas, cries as she hugs her 10-year-old son Tovre as they mourn the death of pop star Michael Jackson outside the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Police tape hangs across the street near the emergency room dock outside the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Fans of Michael Jackson gather at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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People watch the news about Michael Jackson in New York's Times Square on Thursday.

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TJ Thomas and Marie Bouchard remember Michael Jackson at what they believe to be the singer's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday. Jackson's star was covered by the red carpet for Sascha Baron Cohen's premiere of the movie "Bruno" when the news broke.

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Signe Ravn, of Copenhagen, Denmark, center, takes a photo of the video board in New York's Times Square on Thursday as twins Omar, left, and Mike Felici of Staten Island, react to the news that Michael Jackson has died.

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The media gathers outside the emergency entrance at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after hearing the news that Michael Jackson passed away.

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Police block the entrance of the emergency room at the UCLA Medical Center after the reported death of Michael Jackson on Thursday.

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A Michael Jackson fan reacts to the news about the King of Pop outside the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Memorable Michael Jackson’s Auction

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In April, there were plans to auction off some of Jackson's possessions at Julien's Auction house. Jackson's production company sued to stop the sale and the judge wound up halting it on April 14. The items in this slideshow would have been on the auction block had the sale gone forward.

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Ralph Cowan painted this portrait of Jackson and his deceased chimpanzee Bubbles in 1991.

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A custom display Jackson's signature crystal glove in four different colors. They've been mounted to custom-posed mannequin hands and mounted to a black Plexiglass base with a clear Plexiglass cover. Each glove is covered in Swarovski loch rosen crystals.

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Jackson's brown wool uniform consists of pants, black belt, mock button-down and zip-front shirt with military pins and patches, including the star's name in both Thai and English.

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David Nordhal painted this triptych featuring Jackson as a knight being crowned, left, a crusader, center, and being knighted with a sword, right. The painting also contains the words: "I am the thinker, the thinking, the thought. I am the seeker, the seeking, the sought. I am the dewdrop, the sunshine, the storm. I am the desert, the ocean, the sky. I am the Primeval Self in you and I."

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Michael Jackson's Rolls Royce limousine

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The Michael Jackson's gold-painted bust from the "Thriller" era shows Jackson in in aviator shades and a military jacket.

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This set of four custom Michael Jackson dolls sported outfits from different iconic moments in his career. The outfits include those used in the "Beat It" and Billie Jean" videos.

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Michael Jackson's toys are seen on display in Beverly Hills, California, April 13, 2009. Thousands of items owned by Jackson will be auctioned off starting April 22, 2009 by Julien's Auction and could raise between 10 and 20 million dollars.The jewel-encrusted glove is the most iconic piece, it's estimate is between 10 and 15,000 dollars, but it could easily sell for something in the region of 100 to 200,000 dollars. The Beverly Hills exhibition of Jackson items going under the hammer give a rare insight into the pop star's former life at Neverland. Extraordinarily elaborate costumes, a customised Rolls Royce limousine, antique furniture, lifesize statues of superheroes and Star Wars villains, from Batman to Darth Vader, and a fully equipped computer game arcade are among the lots.

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A staff member shows the belt and costume worn by singer Michael Jackson during the filming of the song "Bad" from the "Thriller" album.

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Jackson's life-sized statue of Elvis Presley was inscribed by Sam Phillips in black Sharpie. He wrote, "If I can only find a white man with a black man's sound, I could make a million dollars."

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The pop star owned a limited-edition statue of Superman. Jackson had many, many video games including a "Simpsons'" pinball machine, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" game, "Indiana Jones" pinball, "Terminator 3" pinball, "Star Trek" pinball.

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Jackson had a life-sized replica of Darth Vader made entirely of LEGOs over a steel frame. When turned on, the figure breathes heavily and recites eight different lines of "Star Wars" dialogue, including "You have failed me for the last time."

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source: msn


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SONU (nagpur) [ Reply ] 2012-10-18 12:12:52
HEY MJ MISSIN UR POP,,N STILL M WAITING FOR UR NEXT BIRTH IN THE WORLD AND IT WILL HAPPENS I KNOW,,U WILL COME BACK SOON,,,,WELCOME : FROM: YOUR FAN MG,,,SONU
sam () [ Reply ] 2009-06-27 12:24:49
I was unable to sleep whole night he makes me cry whole night.. Miss you michael........ .. " All i wanna say that everyone cares about you"
kevin () [ Reply ] 2009-06-26 13:19:49
Hey Michael.... You always remain in our heart..... We Love You MICHAEL


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