ABC News and KABC - Michael Jackson death - 2009-06-25
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[0:00] seduction.
[0:00] >> I'm probably
[0:03] >> This is an ABC [music] News special
[0:05] report.
[0:07] >> Good afternoon. I'm Charles Gibson at
[0:09] ABC News headquarters in New York. And
[0:11] we are interrupting our regular
[0:12] programming because there are reports
[0:14] that the singer and pop culture icon
[0:17] Michael Jackson has died. He was 50
[0:19] years old to cause cardiac arrest. He
[0:22] was rushed to the hospital in Los
[0:23] Angeles this afternoon after apparently
[0:25] suffering a heart attack. The reports
[0:28] that he has died are coming from the Los
[0:29] Angeles Times and from other
[0:31] organizations that cover entertainment
[0:34] news. Michael Jackson called himself the
[0:36] king of pop. He spent almost his entire
[0:39] life in the public eye. From his years
[0:41] as a child performer with the Jackson 5
[0:43] to the height of international
[0:45] superstardom in the 1980s and 90s to the
[0:48] scandal and mystery of his later years
[0:50] when he virtually disappeared from sight
[0:52] after being cleared of child molestation
[0:54] charges in 2005.
[0:57] This shows him in his younger years. He
[0:58] burst onto the national scene with his
[1:00] brothers in the late 60s. The Jackson 5,
[1:02] later just known as the Jacksons, a
[1:05] string of number one [music] songs like
[1:06] ABC and I Want You Back. His first solo
[1:09] album was in 1979, another huge hit. And
[1:12] then with Thriller in 1982, well, that
[1:15] was the largest selling album of all
[1:17] time. Seven top 10 hits. Billy Jean
[1:20] beated in Jackson's trademark
[1:21] moonwalking dance, defined the look and
[1:24] sound of the 1980s and actually made
[1:27] music videos what they are today. But
[1:29] his life and career took a turn after
[1:31] th