![]() Michael Jackson may have been gone for five years now, but his legacy lives on through his music. His children - Michael Jr., who was 12-years-old at the time, Paris (11) and Blanket (7) – had lost their father, and the world lost The King Of Pop. A little over two hours later, Michael was pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. However, three weeks before the first show was due to take place, tragedy struck.Īt 12:21PM on Jparamedics were called to Michael Jackson’s home in the Holmby Hills of Los Angeles after receiving a 911 call the singer had suffered a heart attack. It would set new world records for the biggest audience to ever see an artist in one city, and the most amount of people to attend a series of arena shows. These 50 shows would see him play to an estimated audience of more than one million fans during a nine month residency at the iconic London venue. ![]() On July 13, 2009, Michael Jackson was set to kick off his This Is It series of comeback concerts at London’s O2 Arena. As a tribute to Michael Jackson, here’s the Top 10 songs his British fans have been buying since his tragic death in 2009. It's not hard to see why its popular.It’s been five years since we lost The King Of Pop. They also offer a free iTunes app that lets you stream music on the move, and have launched a nifty DJ tool at /dj/ that allows you to mix between tracks with virtual decks. Meanwhile, users can listen to music – including entire albums – without adverts. It seems unlikely that YouTube or the big labels will put up with that much longer and founder David Nelson has admitted to being "engaged in discussions with many groups". That's because it pulls audio from YouTube videos (using YouTube's own API tools), thus presumably leaving YouTube responsible for royalty payments. Yet, although the site claims to supply its streams "100% free and legally", it doesn't pay a penny in licensing fees. Spotify might grab most of the headlines, but another free service,, has just served its 250 millionth audio stream, barely a year after its launch by a father-and-son team in Iowa. Billie Jean is extremely well suited to the spiralling grooves of Shakara, while the squalling horns of Who're You add a terrific vibrancy to Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough. But although Jackson's mawkish Earth Song sounds even more awful against a Kuti backdrop, and some tracks have too much going on, the album has its highlights. As he concedes on, where you can download the 10-track album for free, Kuti made "ever changing records, the complete antitheses of modern beat-machine music – not exactly prime candidates for blending". ![]() But NYC DJ/producer Richard Medina set the bar high for himself by attempting to mash the king of pop's vocals with the instrumentals of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. A year on from Michael Jackson's death, it's not too surprising that a new bootleg album based around his songs has appeared online. ![]()
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