Michael Jackson: Life, Death and Legacy (FULL MOVIE)

[Music] ever since I was born daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine as Michael Jackson's daughter broke down at his memorial service millions of fans around the world shared her pain and the pain continued as debate raged over what was the cause of the singer's premature death two years on and after a six-week trial in Los Angeles Michael Jackson's personal physician Conrad Murray was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of the 50 year old singer refinery the court found Murray guilty of giving Michael Jackson a fatal dose of propofol a powerful anesthetic normally only administered in hospital no competent physician would give these drugs without having emergency airway equipment present during the trial 49 witnesses and more than 300 pieces of evidence were presented to the court we the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant Conrad Robert Murray guilty of the crime of involuntary manslaughter Conrad Murray was jailed for four years and labeled dangerous by the judge he will lose his medical license it brings to an end the final chapter in the extraordinary saga of Michael Jackson's life and unexpected death this is a look at the true story behind the singer who's been officially recognized as the most successful Entertainer of all time nobody de mom's the attention that Michael Jackson does you're talking about someone who's not just a great artist great writer great performer but he was a visual list as well he was incredible there was something that just radiated life in his work life in all of its extremes we'll be examining Michael Jackson's extraordinary life and shockingly premature death and what made him the man he was over the past 40 years no other celebrity has been as respected or as reviled as Michael Jackson probably the most famous pop star of all time Michael Jackson had exceptional talent but he lived a controversial life and died a controversial death during dr. Conrad Murray's trial an audio tape of Michael Jackson sounding heavily sedated a month before his death was played in court it was discovered on Murray cell phone and was used by the prosecution to prove that Michael had put his life in the hands of his doctor [Music] no one I'd ever seen in his closing argument the prosecution said the doctor caused the stars death on June 25th 2009 through negligence depriving Jackson's children of their father and the world of a genius the defense argument that Jackson was a drug addict who caused his own death by giving himself an extra dose of propofol was overthrown of course I think that his death could be prevented if he had a good physician I just believe he was in the wrong hands my friends in the medical profession were shocked when they heard that Michael had been using this drug because they told me they'd never let it be used outside of hospital conditions to take it in a domestic situation is to invite a tragedy dr. Murray violated the most basic aspects of the the doctor-patient relationship it was gross neglect someone like Michael Jackson should have had a proper doctor with dr. Murray behind bars for some anger about what happened in the stars final hours was combined with a feeling of relief that allegations that Michael had taken his own life had been thoroughly disproved he had so much going for him he wouldn't have done it for a for his children which meant everything to him he there's no question that Michael would ever have killed himself of course despite his tragic early death the legend of Michael Jackson the man who became known as the King of Pop is destined to live on so what was it about Michael Jackson's contribution to music dance and fashion and his much publicized personal life that caused him to be such a global phenomenon Michael Joseph Jackson was born in the industrial city of Gary in Indiana on the 29th of August 1958 the seventh of nine children his father Joseph Jackson a steel mill worker recognized his children's musical talents and organized a family band made up of Jackie Jermaine Tito and Marlon in 1963 when Michael was just five he also joined the group Joe was a firm disciplinarian who scheduled a strict regime for Michael and his brothers and their relentless hours of practice left very little time for normal childhood activities did you meet Joe I've met Jerry few times and well he's he's the father of Michael but they are so totally different like chalk and cheese if you look at his background he's come from basically he was a weld and in a very poor town in Mid America and has been catapulted through on the back of his children into some it's a huge stardom Michael is is is probably like the complete opposite Michael described his relationship with his father as turbulent Joe was so determined his sons would be successful that in rehearsals a fumbled note or a misstep could lead to harsh physical punishment Michael himself talked of the horror of being beaten by his father whipped was the word and how his father would sit there as they were rehearsing with a belt waiting to smack them if they got it wrong but then on the other hand he called his father a genius for instilling in them the discipline to present this slick stage act for my analysis I believe that Michael was a very sensitive very very sensitive kind of individual so even though you have a really strict strict parents there are some children that can handle that strictness but there are other children it really affects them people respond to that kind of abuse differently and with some of the other brothers I think that you know it didn't impact them in the same way psychologically that it did Michael it really hurt him and he carried it throughout the rest of his life you know that his father drove him and pushed him but never treated him like a son every time he would speak about his father his face would contort you could see that he was really really stressed about his experience with his father it definitely had a damaging effect on him it really did Michael later said he was made to work too hard for a child but also recalled singing and dancing with real joy as a youngster he did discuss and his childhood with me and I think that he's been quite open about his childhood in terms of his relationship with his father I think what the public doesn't know is that he forgave his father for some of the hurt that was caused and at the end of his life he was very much on good terms with his father so I think that a lot of the things that they happened a long time ago and you know Michael forgave I think if Joe didn't do what he did there would have been no Michael Jackson I'm not one of these people that say it you know point the finger at the father he took a very poor family took a Talon that he saw and he gave it to the world by the time he was eight Michael had emerged as the group's lead vocalist the Jackson brothers changed their name to the Jackson 5 and toured clubs all over the American Midwest Joe Jackson was always very very certain that he was going to turn his children into stars think it was probably pretty disturbing to him in many ways that Michael was the brother who very clearly was the most talented because he was never particularly close to Michael and he always probably gave Michael the harshest treatment Michael was already showing a remarkable range in depth for such a young performer impressing audiences with his great dancing and ability to convey complex emotions after winning a major local talent show with renditions of Motown hits and James Brown's I got you the Jackson 5 were signed by Berry Gordy to the legendary Motown record label when I first heard him saying smokey Robinson's whose loving you at 10 years old he sung it like he felt he had been here uh-huh he had known the song for 50 years the pain the torture he could put that into music in lyrics and feeling you know Michael was just absolutely brilliant brilliant the group was an instant sensation their debut single I want you back rocketed immediately to number one in the States and sold over a million copies when you put the needle down and I want you back you were floored first of all the thrilling piano glissando and then that wailing melisma from Michael so charismatic and then he lands on the first word wet and he had us at the first word we already were owned by this extraordinary young talent I want you back is just the classic pop song you know just burst right out of the speakers and there's so much vibrancy to the to the record it was a little bit a little bit of soul but also what was referred to as bubblegum pop when you heard that song you completely started singing along you couldn't it was infectious it wasn't just it about it being catchy but it was also the vocal delivery was fantastic by this little man with his brothers behind him it was just like wow how do they do that [Music] everybody was just fanatical about them I mean he wanted your hair like them you wanted to wear the same clothes I mean you just didn't even want to go to school anymore I mean that's how it was for us we were obsessed [Music] he transcended color all barriers everybody just loved them [Music] Michael the youngest and the lead was only 11 years old but the record label claimed he was even younger saying he was just 9 to make him appear even cuter the Jackson 5 demonstrated the traditional paradox of child stars kids energy combined with unbelievably professional dance moves it was obvious that Jo the father had instilled in them the necessity to be visually as well as musically appealing and of course those giant afro is helped and the colorful shirts and the bell-bottom trousers they were the real deal and they were instantly imitated across the culture Jackson mania swept the nation and within a year of their debut the Jackson 5 were among the biggest names in popular music all four of the Jackson 5's first singles reached the number-one spot in the United States and were also international hits most agreed that it was Michael with his extraordinary versatile voice and smooth dance moves who is the principal reason for the Jackson 5's amazing international appeal Michael even at that early age had emotional insight whether this was because he was the youngest brother and had been subjected to what we are told were brutalities by the father whether he had this loneliness that he said he did he was emotionally aware before most young people and he could invest a lyric with an emotional delivery as a kid Michael was always beyond his years he was an innovator he was a genius at what he did having the experience of being a child star led to his strong friendship with Mark Lester who had made his name as a child actor in the title role of the 1968 film Oliver Michael steps started at the age of five I started at the age of five so you know we're always comparing obviously Michaels Fame was infinitely more than mine but you know having being in the in the spotlight at such an early age and we used to share memories about our early times he said you know when when these teeny bopper magazines came out were in the States there's one called Tiger Beat I think in seventeen there were four people that used to feature and one on one was Michael who obviously dominated Donny Osmond David Cassidy myself oh and Jack Wilde so there was five who not always but were kind of the ones that were was shown most in these magazines and Michael would pick up these magazines and quite often there'll be a page of Michael and the next page would be me so he kind of thought there was some some sort of parallelism between us he did tell me that he enjoyed the film Oliver and it was his favorite musical and it remained his favorite musical all his life which was kind of odd coming from Michael who has dominated the pop charts for so long and made so many wonderful records for him to tell me that this was his favorite musical was something else that was quite an honor really in 1972 Michael got his first taste of solo success with the title song to the film Ben which was a hit worldwide throughout these early days it was clear Michael was using every opportunity to prepare for his future when he wasn't performing he was to the side of the stage and the Apollo and the Regal and he was watching people like James Brown and people like Smokey Robinson and Jackie Wilson and he was watching and learning and picking things up and so he was such a student of his craft that when it was time for him to branch out on his own he had a lot of ideas by 1975 after 13 albums and countless top-ten hits Motown and the Jacksons were two part company with a fresh start at Epic Records and renamed simply the Jacksons the journey was far from over the hits just kept on coming in 1977 Michael Jackson starred in a feature film The Wiz a remake of The Wizard of Oz featuring in all black cast Michael played the Scarecrow and Diana Ross played Dorothy it was on the set of The Wiz that Michael was introduced to Quincy Jones which led to Jones producing Michaels first astonishing and original solo album off the wall the first single released was don't stop till you get enough [Music] don't stop till you get enough went straight to number one there's just so much energy and it rhythmically it's so complex and it's just amazing the kind of craftsmanship his mother actually was concerned about the title of the song because it could be interpreted sexually and Michael told her you know people will think what they want to think you know and so he kind of wanted to leave it open like that and just kind of be a bit coy with them don't stop till you get enough was a really significant turning point for Michael Jackson because it proved that he was the solo Jackson now when that song came out and he was just on his own and that that video you can never forget that video because there's nothing else in the video except for him in a Seuss dancing [Music] off the wall established Michael as an artist of undeniable talent and a star in his own right it went platinum selling over seven million copies the album's success led to Michael's nine-year partnership with Quincy Jones their next collaboration was the album Thriller in 1982 the first single released the girl is mine did not suggest great things it was a nice pop song I duet with Paul McCartney got to number two I think million seller but not a classic then Billie Jean and the ground moves beneath us Billie Jean is is probably Michael's most famous song it became as big hit with a very unusual theme it's a darker song it's a song about distrust and anxiety and paranoia [Music] Michael was beginning to write songs that that maybe got people to dance still but also that we're exploring some of the things that he was experiencing the Billie Jean story from my memory was to do with all the fans that used to come to see them it was specially know Jackson five time and I think Michael was really shocked at the way people were so sick of fighting about them [Music] amazing amazing created mind that he would take his fanaticism that was aimed at him and turn it into this kind of story in the song with Billie Jean you just got this classic bassline and then you just have this amazing the strings and the kind of atmosphere of it sometimes Michael doesn't get the credit that he deserves as a composer but this was a song that Michael had very close to finished at his home studio but then they brought it in and just polished that and perfected it [Music] the Billie Jean video was impressive because he could see it was an actual film set and he every time he would walk on the steps the lights would come on he's practiced these dance steps till he knows him in his sleep he mastered everything the timing was impeccable it was incredible how he was able to take a set and turn it into something that you couldn't get your eyes off from the time he was walking down the street past the buildings you were captivated I'm it's quite a simple idea when you think about it but he executed it in a way that I had you mesmerized [Music] it's a historic hit for variety of reasons it forced MTV to play videos by black artists walter yetnikoff who was the head of CBS at the time said if you don't put Billie Jean on you're not getting our videos because Billie Jean was such a big hit and MTV had to recant and ever since then of course there have been black artists on MTV beat it the third single from thriller with its van Halen guitar solo managed to broaden Michael Jackson's appeal bringing in rock fans the title track Thriller was released as the fourth single written by Rod Tim Burton the writing talent behind several of Michael Jackson's songs it was in a class of its own this an 18 you've got rod Templeton who's an amazing writer you've got Quincy Jones the most incredible producer of all time then you've got this incredible artist Michael Jackson three incredible musicians who are who are just at the top of what they do this is what created that's really you knew from the very first introduction did the minute you hear that you're hooked [Music] it's just incredible it's such a powerful intro the video was unprecedented for its time with a duration of over 14 minutes john landis who's this renowned director comes in he's done horror but with kind of a satiric edge to it and so he comes in combines his talents with Michael Jackson and you get you get this video that becomes a phenomenon prosthetics created by visual effects artist Rick Baker and dazzling choreography made for an impressive video it was so popular that a documentary the making of Michael Jackson's Thriller became the world's largest selling home video everybody was obsessed were you walking down the streets everyone was dressing like Michael Jackson everyone had the same clothes on I mean we're talking everyone was Thriller everyone became Michael Jackson that's how big a phenomena it was one memorable part of the single is the distinctive spooky voice of horror movie actor Vincent Price they had begun recording and Quincy Jones said you know what if we brought in Vincent Price and Michael didn't know who he was at the time but once Quincy kind of familiarized him Michael was all on board and they brought in Vincent Price and I think it took one or two takes the album Thriller became a huge hit reaching number one in the United States and the United Kingdom at the same time it remained in the top ten in the US Billboard chart for an entire year an incredible seven of the nine songs were top-ten singles Michael's ability to fuse different musical influences was unique he was drawing from such a rich diverse background so he was fusing things that normally wouldn't be fused it's one thing for for Michael to be mimicking James Brown it's another thing for Michael Jackson to be fusing James Brown with you know Fred Astaire Charlie Chaplin when you see it in his short films and when you hear it in his music you can kind of see how he's bringing different elements together today thriller retains its position as the world's best-selling record of all time with an estimated 110 million copies sold worldwide during the 1980s Michael Jackson was as famous internationally as many of the world's leading political and religious figures by the age of only 25 the New York Times summed him up as a musical phenomenon stating that in the world of pop music there is Michael Jackson and then there's everybody else Michael Jackson is one of the few artists who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice his awards include eight Guinness World Records including one for Thriller as the world's best-selling album thirteen Grammy Awards and 13 number-one singles in his solo career Michael was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard and received a further accolade when he was presented with the greatest artists of the decade award by President Bush at the White House those who performed or recorded with Michael often spoke of how impressive he was to work with Michael was looking for three males and a female and so four of us went in together and the four of us had worked together in studio situations before we had auditioned for him and we were videotaped and he liked us he's completely tuned into what he's doing as well as being tuned into what you're doing behind him and that's nice for a singer because he can appreciate what we do because it's what he does and he has an ear for that and and if you do something that he likes then he comments on it and you don't always get that with really big people you know he could be just in in what he's doing and then split but he's not you know he knows exactly what's going on and he appreciates what's making his show exactly what he saw in the very beginning it was at the 25th anniversary of Motown in 1982 that Michael singing Billie Jean unveiled his now-famous moonwalk he was reinterpreting the song in new ways and allowing people to experience it both sonically and visually it received worldwide media coverage by this time MTV which had in the past been reluctant to give airtime to black artists was scoring its top ratings with Michael's videos a bizarre firework accident in 1984 when Michael was performing Billie Jean with his four brothers for a Pepsi Cola commercial resulted in Michaels suffering second-degree burns to his head plastic surgery was required to restore his appearance Bryan Oxman the Jackson family lawyer claims the medication prescribed to Michael Jackson during this time led to his long-term addiction to painkillers when he burnt his hair at the Pepsi commercial he started using painkillers then he then fell from a stage and broke his leg he also cracked a vertebra in his back and those things have caused him terrible pain in 1987 the album bad was released bad is the last of the trilogy produced by Quincy Jones by the time bad comes around Michaels self-image has changed with off the wall he wanted to make an important hit album after off the wall he felt the work under-recognized and was hungry for mass acceptance across the pop world he achieved that with thriller so now he's beginning to worry about his personal image and so he poses on the sleeve of bad looking like a tough guy in that respect bad was the beginning of the personality cult of Michael Jackson the title track bad was actually intended as a duet with Prince Michael had already written the song and Prince really liked it and Prince said that he you know it would be a number-one hit but he felt like it was set up for Michael to win you know cuz they're gonna do this big music video where they're kind of having a dance-off and you know all these kind of drama to it so Prince backed out and Michael ended up doing it as a solo and it was a number one hit [Music] Michael's new edgier look took some admirers by surprise it was a huge change for everyone we couldn't believe his image had changed that much gone with the suits and his hair had like jheri curl you know like a wet look and he had on this leather jacket you know with you know very rock star we'd never seen Michael look hard like that you know it was like he'd looked like he was this at the time I have to be honest when I heard bad I was a little bit like mm I don't know if I'm feeling him doing that but what made me change my mind was the video cuz when I saw the video I was just like wow this is great cuz they're in the subway you can't help but watch that and that made the song better for me by now Michael Jackson was at the peak of his fame with the bad tour attracting huge media attention the world over before taking to the stage in the UK Michael presented Prince Charles and Princess Diana with a 300 thousand pound cheque from the proceeds of his Wembley concerts for the Prince's Trust a charity supporting disadvantaged children Michael presented Princess Diana with two custom-made bad world tour jackets one each for her young sons Prince William and Prince Harry a 1988 Michael Jackson set up built and conceived I guess Neverland which is obviously the place where he would go on to live for most of the rest of his life here was a growing man at the peak of his success who felt the need to live and a huge amusement park named after the mythical island in JM Barrie's novel Peter Pan Neverland was Michael's fantasy theme park it had a zoo ferris wheel and other over-the-top amusements built on a 3,000 acre ranch in Santa Barbara California Neverland was maintained by 54 full-time staff it was a child's dream world Michael even had a pet chimpanzee I was invited to Neverland the gates open the wooden gates open just like this yellow brick road Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Disney World all combined you know it was just it was an escape there was a time we went over to Neverland my little girls were about 6 and 7 then and we spent a week with my Neverland and we went on all the rides we went around the zoo we had our own cinema we could head to see whatever films we wanted to see and at the end of the at the end of the week that we were there I said to the girls I said oK we've been here for a week what's the best thing you like about neverland and my two girls both at exactly the same time said Michael this was a man who having the money to do anything with his property shows to make it look like a child's home obviously he had created a paradise for children but not just other children him the child as well Michael would invite children especially sick children to spend the day there hoping to create warm childhood memories for his many young visitors the thing that struck me about Neverland is packed with underprivileged children from around the world and there was coach Lodz and it cost so much millions to run throughout his life Michael Jackson was a passionate supporter of charity in 1992 he set up his own charity foundation that he called heal the world the name of a track from dangerous the album he had just released are we blind to the fact that our children are raging against the indifference crying out against the abandonment of thundering against the neglect he'll the kids is about doing something about making a difference in trying to help adults and parents realize that it is our power to change the world that our children live in he did so much for charity I mean this was a tireless Giver he was a total absolute Giver what they were try to do in the media would try they would try to say that you know his charity ran out of money and he'd hear stories like that it's not being run properly they haven't really gone into how much he has done regarding terminally ill children cancer stricken kids I mean this is someone who's done so much you don't see that side of him very often they don't say much about it in the media and I think that said Michael gave so much I think he's the most generous entertainer it's ever lived I think that's in the Guinness Book of Records he's second to Bill Gates as a person for all that he's given it's no to present you with a check for 1 million dollars this represents the money pepsi-cola pledges to raise in Europe at this summer with our best wishes in America the song black or white was the most successful track from dangerous [Music] what people often forget with the black or white video is that it was Michael's most controversial video and it was censored you have this main part of it that most people are familiar with you know where it's kind of a celebration of diversity after the end of the main music video is a Black Panther sneaks off of the stage and then Michael's conveying kind of the darker side of the song and of racism and Michael Jackson just unleashes this raw expression of indignation and you know conveys violence he's breaking in windows you know it was just like sexuality to it but it's an aggressive sexuality and so people didn't know what to make of it when we first saw dangerous and saw Michael's image completely change again and he had become even whiter I think everyone was very very concerned and everyone was starting to think he didn't like being black anymore then he comes out with the soul from dangerous called black or white and we suddenly went oh for goodness sake you've gone whiter and then you've put out a song called black or white what's going on here many people thought that Michael Jackson over a period of time had been bleaching his skin so this was a real statement for him because he was essentially responding to those criticisms through song and saying why does it matter if I'm black or white it's only later on obviously way down the road that what 15 years later you find out that he had vitiligo which is a serious skin condition where you completely lose pigment he definitely had vitiligo which you know the interesting thing about that is that a lot of people didn't believe him and you know it took really until he died in the autopsy report actually indicated that he had vitiligo stars were all about mystery then is like now where you know everything about an artist the artist was supposed to be an enigma and I don't feel that they thought it was the right thing to tell the public what was really going on with Michael imagine being somebody that grows up in front of the world and you have this pretty unusual skin condition and people are saying things like you are ashamed of your race you know and you don't want to be black you're trying to be white Michael's appearance had altered so much it was clear the changes weren't all to do with his skin condition if you're going to understand why Michael Jackson would have plastic surgery you've got to understand that he was a human being and he was subject to the insecurities that we all have and when at an early age he was frequently criticized by his father it hurt him and having been told numerous times his nose was too big when he could afford to not have it so big he made it smaller all of those experiences when he was young contributed to this kind of desire to change his physical appearance and he was also an artist and he kind of began to treat his face as a work of art you know he had this kind of various ideals of perfection that he was trying to achieve physically Michael Jackson's dramatic change in appearance prompted all sorts of media speculation there were rumors that he and his sister Latoya were the same person and that he was trying to make himself look like Diana Ross it's been said that Michael Jackson underwent plastic surgery to make himself look more like you I don't think so is that true no well I don't think he has no one's ever tell me he's never told me that I don't think so but is it unnerving for you to have a young man that's undergone plastic surgery to make himself look like you well I don't think he's trying to look like me I really don't I think he wants to look like what he perceives this makes him feel happy about himself you know I don't think he's trying to look like me I do think he's quite beautiful though by the way so many people really don't know him and they don't give him a chance and they're so ready to criticize and I think what happens is when you see genius and when you see a talent that is just unstoppable and untouchable the first reaction people have is to criticize it because it scares them it threatens them and it sort of it in order to augment their own self-worth they feel that they have to belittle him in the summer of 1993 Michael Jackson's life was turned upside down when he was accused of sexually abusing a 13 year old boy the accusations of child abuse at his Neverland Ranch were immediately denied the case was settled out of court for a reputed 20 million dollars and no formal charges were brought now if if this really went on do you think a father would accept money but that would make it okay that that would make everything alright it doesn't make any sense I know that if that were my son I'm sorry I don't care if you gave me a billion dollars I want to see you either behind bars are dead for doing that to my son or my daughter it's crazy the guy was after money is what he wanted it was just after this in May 1994 that he married Lisa Marie Presley whose father was one of the few men who could rival Michael's worldwide fame the marriage to Lisa Marie Presley was completely fascinating I mean it dominated the tabloid agenda both in the UK and in the US here was the biggest music star of the last decade undisputedly marrying the daughter of the biggest music star of all time Elvis Presley at the time he was in the midst of these allegations all of a sudden people were very very concerned about the way that he looked he was incredibly gaunt incredibly white looks surgically enhanced and not in a good way so why would this young beautiful up-and-coming daughter of a famous celebrity decide to enter into this marriage someone who's Michael Jackson the biggest star in the world he can't really just walk down the road and go out with anyone can he think about it his demographic would have to be someone like you know Lisa I think that's probably why in his mind it would have been okay because she would get his level of fame and notoriety and everything else I mean it was completely fascinating and I think to this day no one really knows what the situation was between Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley she hasn't spoken about it much and it was a very bizarre chapter in both of their lives despite media speculation about the credibility of their relationship Lisa Marie and Michael publicly denounced rumors and flared their love was genuine the marriage was short-lived and ended on amicable terms in 1996 within a year of the separation Michael's association with his dermatologists assistant Deborah row led to an announcement that she was pregnant with his first child Michael had wanted kids for a long time in fact he wanted kids with Lisa Marie Presley which is one of the reasons why they got a divorce and with with Debbie Rowe she came to Michael and said that she would give him a child and that she would essentially be a surrogate mother and provide Michael what do you always wanted which was to have children soon after this the couple were married in Australia Debra gave birth to a son Prince Michael Jackson jr. followed by a daughter Paris Michael Katherine but the relationship was not to last by autumn 1999 the couple announced their intention to divorce with full custody of the children going to Michael in 2002 Michael announced the birth of another son Prince Michael the second also known as blanket and to this day the mothers name remains a mystery [Music] the single you are not alone from Michael's album history released in 1995 remains commercially one of Michael Jackson's most successful songs the lyrics - you are not alone from his first album since the child sex abuse allegations managed to link the incidents of Michael's recent past and media obsession with him with a feeling of isolation [Music] you are not alone as one of those songs that can be interpreted in a variety of ways I think a lot of people when they heard it interpreted it as a love song but it was also a song where it conveyed a certain degree of isolation the toll of a life in the spotlight [Music] it was a real Michael Jackson ballot and the true sense of the word and did become a huge hit for him I guess really against all odds because the music video was incredibly strange I mean it featured Michael Jackson almost naked under the sheets with his wife Lisa Marie Presley and it was a very odd music video but the song has been one of Michael's most enduring yet [Music] Michael's music was increasingly dealing with the world issues he saw as important you start to see with the dangerous album with the history album a lot of the songs you know it's no longer about relationships are dancing you know Michaels tackling big social themes was very interesting actually because the release of history did not go down well it was a greatest hits package combined with a new album and there are a whole load of stunts which were really derided for example Michael Jackson deciding to send a massive statue of himself down the River Thames in London despite him being still caught up in all of these allegations of child abuse but actually I always felt like history was probably his most underrated album ever I mean some of the songs to come from history are completely iconic they don't really care about us earth song scream you are not alone it was a huge album but by that point it almost didn't matter what Michael Jackson released there were enough questions about him as a person there actually his music was again overshadows all through his life the more Michael tried to protect his privacy the more fascinated the press became with him and the more absurd the stories became 99.9% of what's written about him is was false I read that his nose went missing I think it was in the Daily Mirror that's absolutely crazy but I think what it is is that perhaps there's an ounce of truth in what's written but it's totally embellished you know what the media's like it's called propaganda they take anything and they blow it out we're family you saw the way we grew up in the two-bedroom house family is more important than all the success in anything and we're always going to hold on to that their whole thing is to divide and conquer in the separators we're family we're family we have children we heard just like everyone else he was very hurt by the Miss reporting's in the press but I think his defense mechanism was actually was not to read them don't let it you know they can say they're gonna say whatever they're gonna say anyway so just don't read don't get involved with that as I said to him one day I said why don't you just sue them and he said mark if I was to sue everyone that wrote something about me that was untrue I've been caught every single day so it just wasn't worth it for him so he just decided to let it go in 2001 invincible became the last album of new material that Michael Jackson released during his lifetime though it received mixed reviews and suffered from the fallout of a dispute with Sony it still managed to make it to number one in 11 countries including the US but as time went on Michael's life as a musician was almost eclipsed by the endless gossip surrounding his lifestyle curiosity and controversy were his constant companions an incident in 2002 which was circulated around the world showed Michael holding his baby out of a Berlin hotel window for his chanting fans to see it created uproar I was in the room when it happened when I saw it on the camera I thought oh god that looks really awful but actually below the window of the hotel is ledge or that comes out right away and if Michael had held the baby quite firmly anyway and it was just a gesture of to say that this is my new child you know and then it got he got absolutely slammed for it but there that baby was in no danger at all ever and in fact when we didn't think anything of it until after he done it and the fans were all clapping and cheering until until the next day when it came out in the papers we would although I saw the news clip and I thought well yeah that does look a bit scary it was foolhardy therefore we must ask ourselves why did you do it and the answer is that the feelings he had which motivated him to do it were greater than even his concern for the child and that is I want to present to you my new cub as in the Lion King at the beginning the circle of life when the new cub is held up of course in this case it happened to be over the balcony which was really dumb but he didn't think about that he did I'm sure he didn't look down and think Oh is there about me there or not he was just holding the kid up the incident naturally led to all sorts of speculation in the press about Michael's abilities as a father much worse was to come in 2003 he was accused of sexually abusing another boy and this time he was charged and taken to court as Michael professed his innocence on the surface he appeared to be handling the situation well but the lengthy trial took its toll I would like to thank the fans around the world I would like to thank the fans around the world for your love you support from every corner of the earth my family has been very supportive my brother Randy who's been incredible I want to thank the community of Santa Maria I want you to know that I I love the community of Santa Maria very much it's my community I love the people I will always love the people my children were born in this community my home is in this community I will always love this community from the bottom of my heart that's why I moved here thank you very much when I first met Michael he had control in his life and I think the control started slipping away 2003 onwards when he sank deeper into despair over the false accusations in the last few weeks a large amount of ugly malicious information has been released into the media about me the information is disgusting and false it took a lot out of him that I mean he didn't eat very well sleeping very badly and that probably took ten years off how much I think please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court I deserve a fair trial like every other American citizen I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is towed when the trial began hordes of Michael's supporters held vigil for him outside the courthouse when Michael arrived at court he jumped on the top of his car and started dancing and the pressure was enormous for him I mean of course we knew that he was innocent of all charges Bart's you know a lot of innocent men have been found guilty and evidence can fall one way or the other so the stress of three months of going to court every single day he looked thin he looked anemic almost I mean he it was just I think that really was probably the worst thing in in his life as far as his health goes and and his mental state the child sex abuse trial was something that Michael Jackson had always wanted to avoid this was his worst nightmare he was pretty clear to those around him that he thought a trial of this kind would kill him and the effect on his health was really significant I think we all remember those pictures of Michael Jackson turning up in court and his pajamas or just not turning up at all he was in terrible discomfort during the entire trial proceedings he's gonna go home recuperate rest and relax and he'll be back on Monday and he's looking forward to being here and he went to the emergency room this morning and he was given medications so he'll be back on Monday and we all thank you so very much you take care there was very limited sympathy for him I mean the tabloid headlines the day he did turn up to court and his pajamas was banana in pajamas I think the world felt for the first time at least the world of the media that actually maybe these years and years and years of managing to get around the law however he had done that had finally caught up with Michael I'd like to let the world know that I'm behind my son I don't believe any of this stuff that's been written about him because I raised him and I know and that's just a statement people are making we support our brother wholeheartedly and we stand by it by his side and there is we're in the process of planning a trip the whole family to on June the 13th 2005 Michael Jackson was found not guilty and completely cleared of all charges there was no african-american on the jury was so many search warrant so many months of Investigation so many million dollars and they didn't even get an alcohol charge they put it in to get something they didn't even get that it didn't go to show how guilty he was it went to show how innocent he is how clean he is they went through his house with a fine comb and the lady that brought the charges later went ended up in jail for fraud so you know I mean Michael was a victim it's thought that the anxiety caused by the trial had a serious detrimental effect on Michael's health and this stress along with the constant pain he felt with his back and other ailments led to a dependency on prescription drugs the man was in pain and there was no question about it he needed to have certain medications but the problem becomes the overuse of medications and that's something which people I think all people find very difficult and to control he simply wasn't able to control it over the years Michael's friends claimed they did their best him overcome his dependency I warned him many times I shouted at him on several occasions and I actually told him verbally Michael this will kill you Michael you will die when I went into his bathroom I saw lots and lots of pill boxes and a various different medication in there there was general there was paxil and soul of Demerol as a painkiller and paxil zoloft there antidepressants when I saw these things in the bathroom I wasn't thinking oh you know he's he's a drug addict or anything like that I was thinking maybe he's sick and I wanted to know and I kept on asking him what's happening and he was like and now everything's routine you know it's all okay in the years following the sexual abuse trial despite being cleared of the charges Michael in many ways appeared a broken man there were then numerous reports that Michael Jackson was having financial problems and he was no longer enjoying the same level of success with his music the world wasn't prepared to see beyond Michael's eccentricities and the scandals that had overshadowed his life Michael Jackson is an incredible artist you know an artists aren't always normal you know in fact some of the greatest artists are very eccentric and very unique very different and Michael was a great artist he lived his life in a different way in an unusual way but when we go back to those songs when we go back to those videos when we go back to those albums we find just an incredibly rich diverse array of art that deserves attention Michael's enduring appeal was proved in March 2009 when he announced a number of comeback concerts at the o2 arena in London London welcomes the King of Pop mr. Michael Jackson these will be my final show performances in London this is it and see you in July Michael Jackson's announcement of 10 concerts here are certainly a coup for the o2 arena and if those constants go well the expectation is that he'll add many more dates but questions still remain about whether the Michael Jackson of today can still cut it live on such a big stage it's a staggering show that's what Michael Jackson does and so therefore you're talking about absolute the the top of art of energy and he has to be you know almost plugged into Luke glucose because that's the only way he's going to get through it well money was a huge factor for Michael Jackson over his final years he was broke he'd lived well beyond his means so the idea behind these farewell concerts that he was very passionate about was not only that he would go out in the way that he wanted to on stage but also that he had made the millions and millions of dollars which he desperately needed thousands of fans from all over the world converged on the o2 arena to buy tickets proving that the mega stars appeal was as strong as it had ever been we came from the West of Ireland yesterday or on Wednesday morning and we've been queuing since it was so hard to get the tickets I just watched to the rest and just come around here spend the night and it's don't care when you're looking for we had rain our tent got flooded but just because we knew that we were going to see mark or one of that semis we're here from there anything let me state this the man came back sold out a bigger tour than he's ever done in his heyday it's sold out 50 dates I think something like a million tickets in four hours so he was very loved and he was very supported I don't think he has to prove anything to pull it off I mean he the legend he is I mean Michael Jackson's gonna turn up and do his shows and everybody will see that you know the next chapter there were conflicting reports on the state of Michael Jackson's health in the lead-up to the concerts last I saw Michael was at the conference at the o2 Jenna they say he looks high they say he looked sedated I would say he looked that he was focused the last time I saw Michael was in March 2009 and to me he did look under way he did he looked a lot thinner than I'd ever seen him before and I don't think he looks particularly healthy he just seemed fail to me Michael Jackson Wade correct for his height he had the best dietitian that you can get the initial announcement was of 10 concerts which were going to be held at the o2 arena a massive venue in East London and after they sold out they just kept adding dates I don't think it was reasonable to expect somebody of 50 to do 50 concerts in six months I just think that's too hard he just didn't have enough time to prepare for it you know and so much was riding on that and it put an enormous strain on him enormous strain and I just don't think it was very fair on him and I think in some respects it was quite irresponsible very irresponsible after Michael announced the concerts he stayed in London and my family came up and we spent the weekend with with Michael before he flew back to the states he was in a really good positive mood I mean he was in such a positive frame of mind best I seen him for for a long time he told me his children had never seen him perform they'd seen obviously video and DVD footage of him on stage but they'd haven't never actually seen him live so this was something he not only was doing for his fans but mainly for his children my kids are old enough and I'm still young and see me but the children never would see him perform the world would never see the comeback Michael Jackson had promised yes sir I need to uh I need an ambulance as soon as possible sir it's 100 North Carroll with rod Los Angeles California 9:07 7 Carroll Carroll would drive yet on June 25th 2009 the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the 100 block of Carol wood at 12:21 and 18 seconds unfortunately at the time the dispatcher answered the phone call and and never once did the caller ever identified to the Los Angeles Fire Department that the person that needed our help was Michael Jackson needs help and he's not breathing here he's not breathing and we need to we're trying to pump him but he's not yes he's not breathing sir ok he's not conscious either sir okay right now he's on the bed sir he's on the floor okay okay when our paramedic heard that it was being CPR was being conducted on the bed gave explicit direct emphatic direction for that patient to be moved from the bed and CPR to be done on the ground yes we have a personal doctor here with him sir oh yeah dr. Murray said that he would take full responsibility for the patient what that does for us is that now the doctor becomes the highest level of a medical authority if he would have denied we would have asked him to step aside and the paramedics would have been the highest medical authority to give care to Michael Jackson he's not responding for anything - no no he's okay witness what happened no just the doctor says the doctors been the only one here okay so the doctor see what happened doctor did you see what happens to you just if you can please run away question is why did it take dr. Murray so long to dial nine-one-one only dr. Murray can answer that question obviously fast response save lives why dr. Murray took so long and whoever long he noticed that Michael Jackson was down it's unexplainable to us they're on the way there sir thank you sir he's pumping he's pumping his chest but he's not responding to anything sir please okay okay we worked 45 minutes because as paramedics we call it the golden hour obviously we try to tell the community when someone has Paulson on breathing you call 911 immediately wherever you live the singer Michael Jackson is reported to have died about three hours ago he was not breathing when paramedics arrived they performed heart massage and then they took him to the UCLA Medical Center in the city where he said to have gone into a deep coma he was pronounced dead a short time ago the singer had been Jew in London for a series of concerts during the summer I am somewhat numb I am shocked at the passing of Michael Jackson you know it's like a dream a bad dream he was so much like a son to me it's just hard to realize that Michael Jackson is not here unless you are a fan of Michael Jackson in the way that so many moons people are and the way that I am you you can't begin to understand the lost the way of feeling I don't know I can't stop crying he meant so much to me it's hard to deal with it it's still hard to believe I think you saw when when Michael Jackson died something that maybe certain people didn't expect which is that there was this huge outpouring across the world there was just the generations of Michael Jackson fans that were celebrating his life because his work resonated for them and it resonated across cultures it resonated across age groups across generations Michael's work was able to cross divisions and reach people after a small private funeral Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief and it was reported that as many as 1 billion people around the world watched his public memorial service the star-studded emotional ceremony took place at the Los Angeles Staples Center it saddens me that there are so many people in Los Angeles who when he died claimed to be his friend and yet where were they why didn't they help him I think we drove him to a lot of things the world could have done more to appreciate him to let him know enjoy yourself we love you you're good you're very good it's sad that we wanted so much from the man that we kept saying more more more rather than saying hey no more from you rest up enjoy your life Michael had been rehearsing in LA right up to the night before he died getting set for his upcoming London shows so there were serious questions about what had caused him a man who appeared so fit to die so unexpectedly at the age of just 50 just the night before he died Jackson was here at the Staples Center in LA rehearsing for his upcoming London shows and by all accounts it was a pretty energetic performance running through 10 or 11 songs and dances after which Jackson's manager says the singer came up and put his arm around him and told him I am so happy this is really our time at least rather nice glamorous studios Jackson had a tough schedule for the last few months people here who watched him Ray Harris said he was thin and frail but he seemed fit he was you know up to par he was at his best and he was ready to to come back and just wow us all the way a documentary featuring Michael preparing for the this is it tour the comeback that was never to be shows an energetic performer he wanted to come back badly in a great way he was a perfectionist so he wanted these concerts to be close to perfection and that creates stress that creates anxiety he reportedly had once said to Lisa Marie Presley I have this terrible feeling I'm going to go the way your old man did meaning die young but actually he really did go the way of Elvis which is that they both had an incredible number of drugs in their body I thought that for the past 15 years Michael had obviously been on a downward trajectory in terms of his relationship with reality and his perception of himself what really was the shocker was the revelation of the extent of the drug use which no responsible physician would have allowed within hours of his death from cardiac arrest police became suspicious about the doctors who provided Jackson with a steady supply of prescription drugs though it was over seven months before dr. Conrad Murray was arrested and another 18 months before he was brought to trial within six weeks Murray had been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter he was sentenced to the maximum jail term of four years bringing some kind of closure from Michael Jackson's family and many fans the world over the court has determined that the appropriate term is the high term of four years [Applause] of course Michaels musical legacy will live on just as dr. Murray began his jail sentence Cirque de Soleil embarked on a 47 City immortal world tour celebrating Michael Jackson the most elaborate of many tributes that have followed the singer's death another sign that despite his troubled life Michael Jackson will always be remembered for his extraordinary musical genius you're talking about someone who's not just a great artist great writer great performer but he was a visual esthetical nobody creates the attention demands the attention that Michael Jackson does a Michael Jackson doesn't just come along once in a century or a lifetime he only comes along once we had the benefit of enjoying him while he was here and we will enjoy him forever through his music there was something genuine there was something exuberant there was something that just radiated life in his work life in all of its extremes even when Michael Jackson sang a cliche he could inject it with life and that was his gift [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 74min 15sec (4455 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 03 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/bibib0i]

This is an interview, how his life absolutely was. He never had a childhood. He has been in the spotlight since age five. Micheal prevents a true genie even when he was young. He had a dream...And never gave up. He allowed his father, before his death. For his. Miserable childhood he had. His parents clutched him.And did the best they could to elevate him. Poor Micheal, he worked desperately formidable to excel in life. He fulfilled his dreams. And in the end yearned what he loved doing best, singing and dancing for his fans. �� We miss you Micheal. �� �� �� You will always be alive in all your fan's hearts.

[u/Michigami]

In this film we take an intimate look into life of one of the worlds most successful entertainers of all time, a man dubbed as the King of Pop. Following the recent imprisonment of Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray for four years for involuntary manslaughter, we are taken on a journey back through the life of Michael Jackson, from his debut on the professional music scene with the Jackson 5 in 1964 to his untimely death in 2009. We capture the highs and lows of the extraordinary life of the man who inspired millions of fans all over the world. It includes contributions from people who worked with Jackson throughout his life as well as from friends, family members and music journalists.

[u/tarayqueen]

Like so many others it was pain (from the burn wound on his head) that killed him. If you are in pain you will need drugs and that could lead to your death.