CNN also reported that 3 days back he got cancer removed from his nose..
he completely abused his body.Most of us have grown up listening to his songs..God bless his soul.

MJ's private doctor is absconding
Mystery surrounds his death, steroid overdose ? Drugs everything is doing te rounds.
He was under $500 million debt which he hoped to pay back from his upcoming London tour.
His life is an ideal example of how playing with biology and human physiology can kill>
I can bet if he hadn't gone for skin change, nose repair, estrogen therapy ....etc he would have been completely normal. He earned so much of wealth,money why was he not comfortable in his skin..??????
This Q Will always beat me

He was a man shrowded with controversy all the time.
Somehow I never liked any of his songs...

May he rest in peace now.

R.I.P MJ!!

May his soul rest in peace.

Article about his visit to India

He was the easiest artiste to work with


Sabbas Joseph and Viraf Sarkari, directors of the event management agency Wizcraft, remember the man and the musician

By Namrata Bhawnani
Posted On Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 03:04:26 AM


In 1996, Michael Jackson flew to India in a private jet. The entire airport had to be shut down and the staff lined up to catch a glimpse of the King of Pop.

India was to witness a historic concert on a scale never seen before. Sabbas Joseph, director of Wizcraft, the event management agency that pulled this off recalls, “Michael met the CM and Raj Thackeray.

This was followed by an aarti by Sonali Bendre. And then, as he was walking out, a strange incident occurred. A child fell down and Jackson immediately glided over and picked him up. He held him and hugged him with such care like he was the child’s mother.”

Sabbas was reminded of the incident years later when the controversy about child molestation broke out.

He says, “The allegations seemed all wrong. Michael even shot with 100 children in India for a calendar that he was producing.”

On his way from the airport, he stopped the car several times to dance with the poor. There was a sense of excitement of him being in India. Sabbas adds that Jackson was even willing to postpone his visit for a day or two in India to meet Mother Teresa. But that didn’t work out.

Interestingly, Jackson needed a specific car with a roof that could open. At that time, the car wasn’t available in India. So, the event managers had to borrow the Toyota Privera from Anil Ambani.

Viraf Sarkari, co-director at Wizcraft, recalls that all the celebrities and industrialists wanted to meet him.

“We arranged meet-and-greet sessions with him. Michael kept all his commitments. He was a gentle person and met everyone respectfully.” Sabbas echoes the sentiment that Michael was the easiest international artiste to work with as he was very humble and the staff very professional.

Both directors acknowledge that Jackson had a great spiritual connect with India. Viraf says, “We first met him in Los Angeles to confirm the concert. We were told he is very keen on performing in India. We’d presented him with a Ganesha, a Nataraj and a sherwani. And without requiring any explanation, he said, “Yes, that’s Ganesha, the god of luck.”

Even when Bal Thackeray presented a silver statue of Nataraj to Jackson, the star didn’t need the politician’s explanation and said, “Yes, I know that’s the god of dance and art.”

Finally, it was the famous sound byte from the legendary pop star that won many hearts in India when he said, “Main Hindustan aa raha hoon.”


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Jackson did the mumbai show for free: Wizcraft

Viraf Sarkari said, “It was a charity show. Not even a penny was charged.’’ Advocate Shirish Deshpande who filed a writ petition against entertainment tax exemption to the show reacted by stating that he had never heard about Jackson not charging for the show in the last thirteen years. ‘’It must be some internal arrangement between them,’’ he said.





Viraf Sarkari, co-director at Wizcraft, with Jackson

Thank you for the music

By Meenal Baghel
Posted On Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 02:34:33 AM




Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest on Friday. He was only 50. The greater tragedy is that he had been reduced to a husk nearly a decade before that: a paranoiac playing peek-a-boo with the public, sometimes ‘showing up’ in Bahrain in a burqa, at another time in Los Angeles with his three children, their faces masked, and his own covered with a kerchief in an eerie grotesquerie.

Relentless media scrutiny drove the troubled superstar further into his shell leaving him a diminished man, reduced from a supreme talent to a tabloid kicker: Wacko Jacko.

But for those of us in India who grew up in the cusp between Doordarshan and MTV, Jackson’s falsetto, the 16-track music overlays, his stunningly sinuous moves, and that clothing - epaulettes and all - were our lifeline to modernity. Thriller sold 48 million copies world-wide and we were a part of that swell. The stylised music videos that paved the way for the acceptance of rap and hip-hop, led to a slew of pimply, baggy-trousered boys trying to impress the girls with moonwalk and even the oh-so-daring breakdance.

Such was our complicity with the world out there that when his subsequent album Bad was panned by the critics in the West, we too would make jokes like, “Why did Michael Jackson call his album Bad? Because he could not spell pathetic.” Ha ha and so forth.

But even as his fans were growing up and getting cynical, Jackson, who had an abusive childhood, was retreating into an infantile state, consorting with children in his vast estate at Neverland, blowing up his millions on shopping trips and plastic surgery. John Updike once described celebrity as a mask that eats into the visage. In Jackson’s case it seemed literally so. His nose crumbled, his skin peeled, going from black to white, as if bleached to the bone, and his perma-kohled eyes grew rounder, bigger, acquiring the look of a confused child stunned by the world’s callousness.

He was tried for paedophilia, but never convicted, though the taint remained. He kept a chimp called Bubbles for company and when he tired of that he married the daughter of another troubled legend, Lisa Marie Presley. In between was the music and the videos: Remember The Time with Iman, Keep It In The Closet with Naomi Cambell, Blood On The Dance Floor, Heal The World, and his earlier initiative for Ethiopian famine victims, We Are The World - he co-wrote that song with fellow black artist Lionel Richie.

This July he was scheduled to revive his dormant career with a world tour but his reliance on prescription pills and the blurring of boundaries between reality and fantasy had begun to take a toll. The man who ensnared the world with his limber grace could barely walk.

In a 1983 interview Jackson said he loved Steven Spielberg’s alien, ET, “‘cos it reminds me of me. Someone from another world coming down and you becoming friends with them...and he’s filling you with all kind of wisdom and he can teach you to fly. That whole fantasy thing which I think is great. I mean, who don’t wanna fly?”

Well, Jackson’s gone, into the Great Beyond. Away from the world that weighed him down. His fans can only pray for him: Thrust In Peace.

I cant believe what he has done .It is so sad how his face has been difigured.I wonder what got into his head to do all the obnoxious things he did.
Its like you cant hate the man and yet you cant love him either.You only feel bad for him.

All the King’s robes


Gold and glitter, epaulettes and ropes, Michael Jackson dressed as per his title, says Mitali Parekh

By Mitali Parekh
Posted On Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 02:14:33 AM


MJ started out staid, posing in a black bow-tie and tux on the cover of his first solo Album Off the Wall. By Thriller, he'd unbuttoned his shirt, lost the tie and his life-long addiction to glitter was beginning to show.


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The thriller Jacket

He took James Dean’s leather motorcycle jacket a bit further for Thriller, adding black accents and styling that belonged more on the Starship Enterprise than a movie theatre; paired that with blood red jeans which only the undead would dare to wear, in the middle of the night. We all loved it; We all coveted it.


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Sock ‘em

MJ sanctioned pants that stopped just before the ankles to show off white socks and loafers.

A nifty trick to draw the eye to his spectacular foot work, the style trickled down to every man, even if he had two left feet.


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Regalia

The King Of Pop liked to dress the part. He had a penchant for military style jackets with ropes, epaulettes and self-appointed badges of honour.

Most often in red, black or gold, these jackets bordered on circus territory and were not restricted to stage.

They slowly merged with his love for rhinestones and regalia. Striking armbands, in gold, red or just iridescent sequins was another one of his strange trademarks.


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The Olodum tee

The snipped-at-the-collar Olodum T-shirt, which he rips as They Don't Really Care About Us progresses, spawned copies all over the streets of Mumbai, with fans gladly taking to scissors to provide the cut at the collar.


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Aviator glasses

He looked at the world through mirrored aviators, a style he kept consistent all through his career. The fedora came in a little later and by the time Black or White climbed the charts, you could buy a one off the street that came attached with a wavy fringe to dangle on your forehead.


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King of bling

Never mind the gold and the silver, no-one loved bling like him. Starting with his diamond-encrusted glove, down to the socks, belts and in once case, his button-fly.

He rarely wore loose pants and brought in the skinny jean before fashion houses had a name for it. Slowly, he slipped into androgynous territory.


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Masked man

As he retreated further away from the spotlight, his alternate ego, Wacko Jacko took charge of the wardrobe. He appeared in outlandish clothes that rather than disguise him, did just the opposite.

He wore surgical masks in public, over-sized hats and in one case, an abaya - a kind of billowing burqa worn by Arab women - on a shopping trip.