BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 7:46 p.m. ET June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted “King of Pop” who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world’s most influential singer and dancer before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50.
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told the newspaper.
Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.
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Пару часов назад умер Майкл Джексон. Шок? Да, именно.
Я отношусь к той генерации, для которой этот человек означал многое. Он показал насколько чёрная музыка уникальна, открыл уши всей Европе и показал, как танцуют настоящие короли денц-пола. Нельзя никого идеализировать, он был человек.. со своими плюсами и минусами, но дерево судят по плоду.
Его уникальное влияние на шоу биз помогло открыть двери Хип-Хапу.. проявило уважение и интерес слушателя к чёрной музыке. Я ждал его возвращения, оно бы оживило мировую музыкальную сцену. Теперь скорее всего этот крест понесёт Канье и его подруга Гага... но мы все осознаём, что это уже не то.
Даже не верится, что это могло случится.
Майкл жив.
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R.I.P.
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