12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi singing “Who’s Loving You” at the Michael Jackson Memorial in the Staples Center, Los Angeles, Tuesday 7th July 2009, in front of an estimated global TV audience of one billion people.
+ Bonus: 10th september 2001, big concert at the Madison Square Garden to celebrate the 30th birthday of Michael Jackson’s career. Here’s a video of Michael with Usher singing “You Rock my World” (also with Chris Tucker). Amazing video!
+ Bonus 2: “You Rock my World”, the original video (with Chris Tucker and Marlon Brando):
This is the video, recorded by AEG (producers of the 50 “This is It” concerts at the O2, in London) only two days before Michael Jackson’s death. It shows the King of Pop quite fit, singing his song “They Don’t Care About Us”, during his final rehearsals.
Yesterday night, at The O2, in London, Madonna’s opening night had a special moment. Madonna paid tribute to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who she described as “one of the greatest performers the world has ever known”.
Michael Jackson died on Thursday 25th June 2009, in Los Angeles (California). The King of Pop has gone, leaving behind him an incomparable and unequaled musical and dance legacy.
Whatever opinion people had about his life-style and his plastic surgeries, it is impossible not to admit that Michael Jackson was a real genius.
Here are some of his best videos (including the famous Moonwalk in a Live Billie Jean and the amazing Thriller)…
Billie Jean (1983 – Live):
Thriller (1984):
They Don’t Care About Us (1996 – Salvador da Bahia, Brazil):
Bonus:
Addition: On Friday 26th June 2009, outside Liverpool Street tube station, in London, a crowd of people gathered together to spontaneously celebrate the memory of their idol.
Same thing happened in Paris, in front of the Cathedral Notre-Dame:
What happened on Bolivian TV over the weekend? Most people would probably answer “Who cares really?”, as there was certainly nothing more interesting there than anywhere else in the world… (except maybe in the UK, where Top Gear unveiled that former Formula 1 pilot, Michael Schumacher, is the Stig! or is he not?)
Well… something actually did happen! During the live news broadcast of Bolivian TV channel RED PAT, the female newsreader dared say that the channel had “exclusive” pictures that had be taken in the Air France Flight 447, between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, before it disappeared and crashed on 1st June 2009!
While the pictures were displayed on the screen, the journalist added to the story that the pictures had been taken by a passenger of Flight 447, at the exact moment the plane split in the air. The pictures, she said, had then been found by Brazilian militaries while searching for bodies and parts of the plane in the Atlantic.
The problem is that these pictures that the Bolivian TV channel called “exclusive” are in fact taken from the american TV series LOST!
The two pictures were even actually already circulating on the social network Facebook for days! Furthermore, when we look at the pictures carefully, we can clearly see a blue sky and some white clouds at the back of the plane… while Flight 447 crashed during the night!
Did RED PAT’s journalists do their job? Did they investigate the claim that these pictures were really from the plane? Did they double check their sources before showing the pictures live on TV? No. They just probably thought that they were going to be the only channel in the world to have access to these pictures and the first to show them live!
What happened with the Bolivian TV channel was more of a “Zub” (fake piece of exclusive news) than a “Buzz“: what was supposed to be a great and exclusive piece of news simply brought shame to them!
The Bolivians were not the only victims of the Zub, a Polish TV channel and a Dutch radio station also fell in the trap…
Here’s the video that brought shame to the Bolivian RED PAT TV channel:
Here’s a video of TV series LOST (stop the video at 0.43 so that you can see the exact same pictures used by the Bolivian TV):
The King of Pop has gone leaving behind him an incomparable & unequaled musical & dance legacy. Some of his best videos: http://bit.ly/T9RVv2 weeks ago
Michael Jackson pronounced dead after suffering suspected heart attack at home in Los Angeles: http://bit.ly/19a6mq2 weeks ago