Michael Jackson died Thursday afternoon (June 25) at the age of 50 after suffering cardiac arrest.
Reports say the legendary pop singer collapsed and suffered cardiac arrest at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills. A doctor present at the time of the incident performed CPR on the singer but could not revive him. He was not breathing and had no pulse when paramedics arrived after a 911 call around 12:26 p.m. PT. They administered CPR and took Jackson via ambulance to UCLA Medical Center but were unable to revive him.
At the hospital, a team of doctors, including emergency physicians and cardiologists, attempted to resuscitate him for more than an hour, but were unsuccessful. According to Jermaine Jackson, the singer's brother, Michael was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m.
During a brief press conference on Thursday evening, a visibly shaken Jermaine stepped in front of cameras and said, "This is hard."
After describing details about the incident's timeline, Jermaine closed by saying, "Our family requests that the media please respect our privacy during this tough time. And may Allah be with you, Michael, always."
The exact circumstances surrounding Jackson's death continue to remain unclear. Jackson's brother Marlon told CNN that Michael was not feeling well Wednesday night and a doctor was called to the house. Jackson family attorney Brian Oxman speculated to CNN that the singer's death might be related to the abuse of prescription medication.
Los Angeles Police Department robbery/homicide detectives have begun an investigation into the death, though there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Detectives will interview relatives, friends and Jackson's doctors. The L.A. County coroner's office will conduct an autopsy Friday.
From his early career in the 1970s with his family group the Jackson 5 to his decades-long career as a solo artist, Jackson stood as one of the most successful and beloved pop artists of all time, selling more than 750 million albums worldwide. He won 13 Grammy Awards.The Jackson 5's first single, 1969's "I Want You Back," hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and the Motown group went on to become one of the most popular acts during the '70s with hit singles like "ABC," "I'll Be There" and "The Love You Save."
In 1978, Jackson joined Diana Ross in the big-screen musical "The Wiz," an adaptation of the Broadway musical based on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." His career as a solo artist took off with 1982's Thriller, which stands as the biggest-selling album of all time. Over the course of his career, with hit albums like Bad and Dangerous, Jackson scored five #1 Billboard 200 albums and seven #1 Billboard Hot 100 singles.
But Jackson's career faltered as he suffered several scandalous legal battles. In 1994, he settled a civil suit stemming from child-molestation accusations. In 2005, he was acquitted on 10 felony counts in a child-molestation trial brought against him, including four counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 and four counts of administering alcohol to enable child molestation.
Still, he released a greatest-hits album in 1995, which hit #1 on the Billboard chart, and embarked on a hugely successful world tour. His 2001 album, Invincible, also reached the top Billboard slot; it would prove to be his final studio album.
At the time of his death, Jackson was gearing up for a comeback, rehearsing for a series of 50 sold-out shows in London's O2 arena that would jump-start a world tour, a new album and possibly a movie. In what is believed to be his final public appearance, Jackson showed up at a press conference in London wearing one of his signature quasi-military outfits and announced the initial plan for the concerts. Describing the shows as a "final curtain call," Jackson told the assembled crowd of fans and media, "This is it. This is it! I just want to say these will be my final shows, performances in London. ... When I say this is it, it really means this is it."
Jackson eventually postponed by several days the July start of the O2 shows, raising questions about his health. But after his death, a source close to Jackson told MTV News, "Michael has been in rehearsals. He's been in good spirits. He's been rehearsing eight hours a day for the London concerts."
On June 9, TMZ caught Jackson sitting in a black SUV. Asked if could still do the moonwalk, his signature dance move, Jackson replied, "Why wouldn't I be able to?"
Born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, Jackson was the seventh of nine children. He married Lisa Marie Presley — Elvis' only child — in 1994, but they divorced in 1996. The same year, Jackson married Debbie Rowe and had two children before splitting in 1999.
The singer is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.
How to have faith in his 1Malaysia whilst he says he cannot micro manage and he:-
* stays silent whilst the public is banned from uttering the name of a certain Mongolian lady
* stays silent whilst the police bans residents of this country from wearing black, previously it was the orange Hindraf;
*stays sillent whilst the police ‘tangkap’ candlelight vigilers
*stays silent whilst the polist ‘tangkap’ the lawyers who volunteer their legal aid to the arrested candlelight vigilers;
* stays silent when Awang Selamat of Utusan makes racist comments to stoke racial fires
* personally and publicly encourages PAS to continue with the unity-govt agenda knowing fully well that this unity thing is only about Muslim-Malay unity and not Malaysian unity.
* will not take responsiblity for the 1987 ’soak the keris in chinese blood’ incident eventhough those words may not have come out from his lips but he was head/deputy head of UMNO Youth at that time and people all across the nation had watched TV that fateful night and saw him and other UNMO Youth leaders standing in front of racist crowds surrounded by banners with those ugly racist words.
here i am, writing blog again. today so strange, i should be having class at 9.30am, i set my alarm at 8.30am, but today i wake up 7am already, the funny things is i don't even watch the phone or clock and straight away run to the toilet and bath. coming out then i only realize is 7am in the morning. so strange.
now is week 3 already in utar, got Advanced Financial Accounting(AFA), Accounting Information System(AIS), Audit, English for Management and Pengajian Malaysia(PM).
AFA and AIS assignment is presentation which is at week 6 if not mistaken and a test. audit got two test, engish and PM is all presentation and assignment. so far as for now, i haven't start any assignment yet, so lazy.
yesterday night i when to walk to westlake's garden there to have jogging with my friends,the environment is very nice, i didn't take much of photo coz there is lots of people around, feel paise if keep taking pictures where there is lots of people around, here are the some photo, next timei will take some well-post picture to have a better view.
after jogging, i walk back have a bath then fetch my friends with 2 cars and go to ipoh have mcd.hehe..took half hour ride to reach mcd at ipoh.
then after come back kampar, i when out watch football with other friends, it was a boring was, coz spain only win 1-0 over iraq. the expectation was high on spain, but spain never fill up a full strength team.
at kampar utar life, just like a village life, but luckily still got a tesco around.
inside utar, the building look quite nice, in between building, it has lots of tree and flower which make the school look really nice.
here some other photo at tesco i took, look very nice too.
i do remember last week i got go back KL, to have some fun too.
friday and saturday i was staying at aaron's room, and sunday i go to boulevard hotel at mid valley city there to stay with my family as my family go to KL to have a short vacation at mid valley coz school holiday.
this picture is the picture taken from 28th floor. it is mid valley shopping complex.
this is the garden, i never though there got parking from top floor.
these are the other photo i taken.
when i go back kl that day, i was fetching kc and joshua, coz i miss out the kepong exit, i have to use the kl exit. Dam! lots of car.
then i drop kc at pudu, as usualy, pudu always traffic jam.
then go to sri gomabak drop joshua, took a lot of time just to drop them.
that friday nite, go out play pool and yamcha only and also find some old friends who come to kl study advanced.
the next day, go to mid valley with jian wen and her roommate, walk walk walk and play bowling too, the bowling environment at mid valley was dam cool.
i think that all for 2day coz i got class at 9.30am. next time i blog, i post some of the protest haven't around perak which i got taken some picture by myself..
Finally i got time to post.
After going UTAR, having problem to adjust my life at Kampar.
Lots of thing need to be done.
Submit form, knowing the area, what block is what block, where is block A, where is Department of Student Affairs. Need to register car sticker which cost me RM100 per semester, need to submit my detail, my IC, SPM, 6 semester result, all those kind of things.
Today, almost 90% of the problem is been solved, and finally, i going for the convocation after today last minute action. In the morning ask my father bank in money to me, afternoon go to bank buy bankdraft then quickly go pos malaysia to Pos Laju my mail which will take 1 working day to reach its destination which will be next Monday( the deadline). Then today need to submit my photocopy IC, passport size photo and form to office which is also today is the last day, and today is the first time i enter my own tutorial class after 1 week of ponteng and replacement class and finally i can see my own classmate. Then i only found out that i been elected as the class rep for my group 17.
Don't know to say i lucky or not but whatever la...just loss some time for playing only.
Today is also the day that i finally can on9 with my pc officially coz the tm net personnel finally come to my house and fix the problem after 1 week of no internet connection which my friend KC, mess up with the modem setting.
After a busy day, i feel free, coz i also finally collect all the printing fees and printing book fees from all my classmate today, so happy actually, that why i got mood to write blog even though i'm very tired.
UTAR life, need to go to school during Saturday as expected. Almost everyday need to wake up at 8am. 8am on monday, wednesday and friday plus saturday, 9am at tuesday and thursday. so cham...need to wake up so early
now at kampar, renting a room upsite shoplots. RM70 per month a room, but the room is quite small, but enough to fit me inside will all my stuff, so it is sufficient for me.
About the syllabus, each subject got part of it got study before, and some haven't study, so it won't be a much difficult for me as some i had study before.
gonna spend 2 year in Kampar. After 2 year in kampar, i'm definitely gonna going back kl to continue my life. To be honest, i don't live kampung area like kampar, but dad won't finance me to go uk top-up a degree in ktar, so no choice borrow ptptn go utar get a degree 1st. then work a while then continue with the professional paper, CIMA, after degree, i still got 5 paper leave. then become CIMA.
i don't want to live my life in a kampung or not happening life.
i want to challenge myself, i want to success, i want to achieve, dare to dream, dare to do it in ethical manner of course, please don't label me extremist. obviously u don't dare to dream, u don't have goal, life is meaningless.
next time if free , i post some photo and interesting story if possible, coz this group got lots of cars, enough to fetch every single of the 30 people to travel, there will be interesting event happen. but most of time should be happening at kl.
and to be honest, i don't like blogging actually, i keep blogging just to know what is my thinking, what is my though. what i had change.