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Michael Jackson was the eighth out of ten kids. He lived in a house in Gary, Indiana. He had 3 sisters and 5 five brothers and the sixth brother died shortly after his birth.
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The Jackson Five were a band formed with five brothers. Their names are:Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson. They were a very popular music group in the 1970's
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ABC was a a hit song in the 1970's. The song beat the Beetles off the Billboard chart and became number 1. It's one of the songs that the Jackson Five will be remembered for.
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This music video helped tranform the music at the time. It was the most watched music video ever and 4 billion people viewed it. It was so dramatic it was like a 13 minute play.
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Billy Jean is a song that was written by Micheal Jackson in January of 1983. It was a song off his super hit album Thriller. The effects in the Billy Jean music video made it really get noticed.
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Jackson was a guest of Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984. It was important because he gave his song Beat It to the governemt to use in anti-drunk driving ads aimed for teenagers. He wore his usual one glitter glove.
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Between the dates of 1987-2001, Jackson has many plastic surgeries to change his face. At first he changed his nose and skin colour. Then he started changing his entire face. At one point he was so ashamed of his looks that he started to wear masks so that people would stop teasing him. It didn't work.
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This was a song about a woman that Jackson sang on all of his world tours. He sang it at the Grammy awards in 1988. He also planned to sing it in some updcoming concerts in 2009/10, but he died before this.
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In 1990 the Jackson Five broke up because one of the members married the record label's daughter. He wanted to stay faithful to the company instead of moving to another one as the father and manager wanted. The group reunited occasionally onstage after the break-up.
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Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose given by his doctor. This was a drug that would try to get rid of his worries. There was a big memorial service broadcasted world-wide.
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