[Music] why why tell them that is human nature why why do they do me that way Michael Jackson was definitely one of the biggest performers in the80s we will always remember Michael Jackson Michael Jackson was born on August 29th 1958 in Gary Indiana he joined his brothers as the lead singer of the Jackson 5 when he was 5 years old and the group quickly Rose to fame with an unprecedented four consecutive number one hits here's what's really important about the early Michael Jackson he had a voice and a performance style that we had never seen
before he wasn't a little cute boy singing little cute songs he was a superstar of Epic Proportions at 9 in 197 2 Jackson had his first solo hit with the song Ben 7 years later he released off-the-wall and became the first solo artist to have four top 10 singles off-the-wall sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame the off thee wall era was really a defining time the album was a commercial success but it wasn't big enough for Michael Jackson he swore that his next album was going
to be something that the world could not ignore Jackson topped the charts in 1982 with Thriller which won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards and later became the best selling record of all time with his styled defining single silver glove zipper jackets and dances that defied gravity Jackson was dubbed the King of Pop I mean the costumes the hairstyles the dance moves amazing the80s were a mix of hits and controversy for Jackson a headb bur suffer during a Pepsi Cola commercial shoot started a string of plastic surgeries in addition Jackson was rumored to be whitening his
skin and sleeping in an oxygen chamber inside his fantasy retreat called Neverland Ranch when Michael Jackson was at the top of his game selling millions and millions of albums he seemed to be even more nutty the chimp the sleeping in the oxygen chamber all this was part of the myth of the King of Pop although Jackson's followup Al ALB s bad and dangerous were both successes his life became tabloid fodder he was hit with molestation charges in 1993 and the next year married Lisa Marie Presley Jackson later divorced and had two children through artificial insemination
Michael Jackson's children literally came out of nowhere it made so many people want to buy magazines watch television shows Michael Jackson reinvented himself when he had those children because we all wanted to know how did this happen and who was the mother in 2005 Jackson was again arrested for Luda upon a 13-year-old boy although he was acquitted Jackson was in financial ruin in 2009 he planned to recoup losses through a series of concerts which sold out in only 4 hours this is it I mean this is the final curtain call on June 25th 2009 Michael
Jackson died after suffering a cardiac arrest from acute profal intoxication administered by his personal physici Michael Jackson is one of the most talented and probably one of the only multi-generational Superstars we've ever had there were so many controversies about Michael Jackson that just will be with part of who he was his legacy
