Keep on Rockin' in
the Freeworld

Michael Joseph Jackson died at age 50 in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009.
He spent a lifetime surprising people, in recent years largely because
of a surreal personal life, lurid legal scandals, serial plastic
surgeries and erratic public behavior that have turned him -- on his
very best days -- into the butt of late-night talk-show jokes and
tabloid headlines. But when his career began to take off nearly four
decades ago as a member of the pop group the Jackson 5, fans and
entertainment industry veterans recognized something else about the
pint-size musical dynamo that was unusual: He was in possession of an
outsize, mesmerizing talent.