26 Interesting facts about ‘Michael Jackson’

King of Pop ‘Michael Jackson’ died on 25th June 2009 after a severe heart attack.After all this we have collected some information ,interesting facts about Legendary Pop Star Michael Jackson,

• Michael Jackson is the biggest selling pop star after The Beatles and Elvis Presley with 750 million sale.
• ‘Thriller’ is the biggest selling album with 65million copies which also got place in Guinness Book of World Records
• Michael jackson has been estimated a total of $700 million earnings in his 40yrs career from record sales, royalties, tours, merchandising and other business transactions.
• In 2005 Michael Jackson faced 10 charges, including molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo, giving alcohol to a minor and conspiring to kidnap him and his family.  Had he been convicted Jackson could have faced up to 18 years in prison, but after hearing the evidence of 141 witnesses the jury cleared him on all charges.
• Michael Jackson won 13 Grammy awards.  Ten Grammy’s were for his work as a solo artist, three others.
• Michael Jackson was 11 years old when he performed on television for the first time with The Jackson Five
• Michael Jackson released 10 solo original albums 1. Got to be There 2.Music & Me 3.Ben 4.Forever Michael 5.Off the Wall 6.Thriller 7.Bad 8.Dangerous 9.History 10.Invincible
• In 1987, Jackson bought a 2,800 acre property north west of Santa Barbara for $14.6m and named it Neverland.Within the grounds he built a private zoo and a fairground with a roller coaster and a ferris wheel. By 2006 it was costing $4m a year to run the Neverland ranch and its staff.
• A Michael Jackson statue was floated on the River Thames in 1995.Asked how he would like to promote the album, HIStory, Jackson told Sony record executives: “build a statue of me”.
• Michael Jackson is the seventh of nine children.
• Jackson’s Billie Jean was the first video by a black artist to air on MTV
• Jackson fought with 50 year old Madonna on MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch - but he lost.
• Three of Jackson’s albums - Bad, Dangerous and Thriller - are among the bestsellers of all time.
• Michael Jackson’s favorite superhero is Morph from the X-Men.
• An obsessed French Jackson superfan committed suicide in 1984 after his mother refused to allow him to undergo surgery to look like the star.
• Michael Jackson is a vegetarian.
• Jackson has several media nicknames. They include The Gloved One, Wacko Jacko, Jacko, The King of Pop, and MJ. Close friends call him Smelly!
• MJ’s music video for Thriller was voted the greatest music video of all time in a recent Channel 4 (UK) poll.
• Jackson’s double album HIStory is the biggest selling double album ever released in the U.S.
• Jackson’s Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all time.
• Michael Jackson filed a patent application for the “leaning forward a bit” dance moves displayed in the Smooth Criminal video.
• MJ’s performance during the 1993 SuperBowl half-time show drew the largest TV audience in American history.
• The directors of Jackson’s videos have included Martin Scorsese, John Singleton and John Landis.
• An extensive 1997 survey declared Jackson was the Most Famous Person in the World.
• Michael Jackson often carries an umbrella. He likes to be in the shade.
• Michael likes to be called The King of Pop.
• ‘Home Alone’ kid “Macaulay Culkin” and Jackson were friends for years.

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Source : entertainmentwise | guardian