Singer Michael Jackson dead at 50

LOS ANGELES - Singer Michael Jackson dead , the "King of Pop", as the moon rose music world, died on Thursday to return a bid to defeat the nightmare years of sexual scandals and financial disaster. He was 50.

Singer Michael Jackson dead at UCLA Medical Center after emergency in their rented house sites in Holmby Hills. Ambulance staff tried to resuscitate him at home for almost three quarters of an hour, then he went to the hospital, the doctors working with him.

"It is of the opinion that he suffered cardiac arrest at home. But the death is not known until the results of the autopsy are known," says the brother Jermain. The police investigated that case, of Singer Michael Jackson dead standard procedures in the High Falls.

Singer Michael Jackson dead was a tragic end to a long and bizarre, sometimes grotesque decline since its peak in the 1980s, popular music, when he was prime minister Allround artist, a unit of black and white music, which destroyed the race barrier on MTV, and still dominate charts blank on stage.

1982-His album "Thriller" - including the best-selling hits "Stick," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide whole.

At the time of Singer Michael Jackson dead was rehearsing hard for its biggest reward: He went to an unprecedented 50 shows in a London stage, with the first on July 13.

As word spread death, MTV changed its program to play the video of Jackson's heyday. Radio stations started playing marathons of your hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York's Times Square, a low moan rose in the crowd when the screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began to send messages to friends via mobile phone.

"No joke. Singer Michael Jackson dead ,King of Pop left. Wow," Michael Harris, 36, New York, read a text message from a friend asked him. "It's like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember that in Times Square, where Michael Jackson has died."

The public knew him as the first of a boy in the late 1960, when it was early, spinning the singers Jackson 5, the group he sings with his four older brothers in Gary, Ind. His No. 1 hits were " I want you back, "" ABC "and" I'll Be There. "

He was perhaps the most exciting artists of his generation, known for his image Moonwalk retrospect, his fever, crotch-grabbing dance moves and rousing vocals, interspersed with a dog and chest. His single sequined glove fabric, narrow, military-style jacket and Aviator sunglasses are the trademarks of their constantly changing appearance surgically altered.

"For Michael, it away from us so suddenly at such a young age, simply do not have words," says Quincy Jones, who is "Thriller." "He was a great artist and his contributions and legacy will affect the world forever. Today I heard my younger brother, and part of my soul went with him."

Jackson Square next to Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. It combines two of the biggest names in music, when he was briefly married to daughter Lisa Marie Presley and Jackson's death triggered immediate comparisons to themselves Presley, died at the age of 42 years in 1977.

Over the years Jackson for an increasingly strange character - a man of middle age the child contact with the stranger in adulthood. His skin is lighter, narrow your nose, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He frequently Bar One germ mask while traveling, shops pet chimpanzee called Bubbles which one of his closest companions and surrounded with children in their own Neverland Ranch, a country with storybook toys games, competitions and animals. The tabloid press dubbed him "Wacko Jacko".

"It seems that the inner core was at war with the standards in the world. It is as if he is trying to be serious," says Michael Levin, a Hollywood editor who represented Jackson in the early 1990s. He called Jackson a student of PT Barnum "and said the star seemed fragile, but then was" very clever and smart about the industry than we knew. "

Singer Michael Jackson dead , led a rebellion in 2002, when he playfully dangled his baby son, Prince Michael II over a hotel balcony in Berlin, while a cluster of fans watched from below.

Singer Michael Jackson dead , born 29. August 1958 in Gary. He was 4 years old when he sings with his brothers - Marlon, Jermain, Tito and Jackie - Jackson at 5 After his early success with the bubblegum soul, he knocks on their own, new, explosive, stopped the music.

The album "Thriller" just mixed in the dark, bass and drums and Serpentine synthesizer strategy of "Billie Jean", the Eddie Van Halen shredding solo in "Stick" and hiccups and falsetto on "Want to Be starting something."