MICHAEL JACKSON A LEGEND HAS BECOME FOR THE WORLD

Michael Jackson means THE BEAT , whoever , wherever someone can listen his songs ,being or not a his fan or like his style of music, could never deny to admitt HE MADE HISTORY IN THE MUSIC WORLD, is a real Legend , when he combined Music, lyrics, style, coreography, dance, video production in a massive way and make it to be understood by all the whole world with no differences in languages and cultures HE WAS MICHAEL FOR EVERYONE

There is not place could not be recognize he could get so far as he also hadnt a dimension of what he did , it is very hard for anyone understand how life of a celebrity could be , we dont look that side cause nothing has the veracity that should have but there are many contradictions being the KING OF THE MUSIC, he could get so down with a disease that was cruel and with a financial situation caused by bad management , associations who used and abused him, it was true that he was almost broken and he has to perform the concerts to save his situation , in the conditions of health he was , he was a victim once more of the fame and also extravangaces and eccentric habits but there are no doubts this what make him happy to do concerts , he was extremely encourage and compromised with this new appearance , but health dont let him get through,

There are two sides in this article what and who was Michael Jackson was as an artist and person? and why he died , what are the reasons of the drugs he should take for his pain? here is one point of reflexion, about medicine on celebrities , how are doctors with this kind of celebreties ? why they cant be audtited for prescription , how far the power of money and or fame could ruin the ethics , there are many examples as :

Marilyn Monroe died at 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills in August 1962. She had been under a doctor's care at the time.

Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at 42, was known to travel with George Nichopoulos, a former physician who overprescribed drugs to clients. Nichopoulos lost his medical license but was acquitted of criminal charges related to Elvis' death.

Deepak Chopra, a longtime friend of Michael Jackson and a licensed medical doctor, said he first became concerned about the pop star's prescription drug use in 2005, when Jackson visited him shortly after his trial on sex abuse allegations.

Chopra said Jackson asked him to prescribe painkillers and already had a bottle of Oxycontin.

I was kind of a bit alarmed. I said, Why are you taking that. You don't need that,' and then I started to probe a little further, and after I grilled him a little bit, he admitted he was getting them from a bunch of doctors, Chopra said.

Chopra said he refused to prescribe the medicine, but over the next four years the nanny of Jackson's children would periodically call to say that a parade of doctors was coming to his homes in Santa Barbara County, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City.

She told Chopra she felt they were overmedicating him, and one time she even tried to stage an intervention with Chopra's help, he said.

Each time, Jackson would discover the nanny's calls and then shut himself off from Chopra to avoid discussing the issue, he said.

Deepak Chopra persoual adviser, said he last talked to Jackson directly about his drug use about six months ago and spoke with him on the phone about two weeks before his death.

But they did not discuss drug use on that call, and Chopra said in his final months, Jackson seemed much healthier and excited about his upcoming concerts in London.

This is a strange addiction. You cannot get these pills or injections unless a physician prescribes them, and he had this bunch of enabling doctors who were in a sense criminals. And they get away with it half the time — and I hope they don't this time, he said.

It's become a culture with celebrity doctors who in one sense get a sense of importance by hanging around with celebrities.

Now, as police investigate Michael Jackson's sudden death, questions are swirling around the King of Pop's personal cardiologist and his actions in the superstar's final days.

The cardiologist has hired a Houston-based law firm and on Saturday, an attorney there said he was cooperating.

Dr. Murray has never left L.A. since Mr. Jackson's death, and he remains there. Investigators have indicated Dr. Murray is considered a witness and is not in any way a target of any kind, William M. Stradley told The Associated Press. He said his colleague was meeting with investigators on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said the singer's family wants a private autopsy because of unanswered questions about how he died and about Murray.

And Jackson's longtime friend Deepak Chopra said he's been concerned since 2005 that physicians were overmedicating the singer.

The suspicions of Jackson's friends and family fit into a long-standing pattern of celebrity doctors becoming entangled in death investigations involving prescription drugs.

Allure of the celebrity lifestyle
Doctors can become enchanted by the glamour of the celebrity lifestyle and may find it hard to refuse potent painkillers for their clients because of their wealth and power.

It's a big issue with people who are used to getting what they want. And if someone says no, they can pay someone else to get what they want, said Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California who is writing a book on social problems and celebrity culture.

Some of these people might not be the most successful doctors, so the money will also buy their complicity in fueling a drug habit, said Albright, who was speaking generally and not specifically about Murray.

Records reveal years of financial troubles for Murray, a 1989 graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville who practices medicine in California, Nevada and Texas.

Over the last 18 months, Murray's Nevada medical practice, Global Cardiovascular Associates, has been slapped with more than $400,000 in court judgments: $228,000 to Citicorp Vendor Finance Inc $71,000 to an education loan company and $135,000 to a leasing company. He faces at least two other pending cases.

Court records show Murray was hit last December with a nearly $3,700 judgment for failure to pay child support in San Diego, and had his wages garnished the same month for almost $1,500 by a credit card company. Another credit card claim for more than $1,100 filed in April remains open.

He also owes $940 in fines and penalties for driving with an expired license plate and for not having proof of insurance in 2000.

The physician is not immune to that heady feeling of being in a celebrity's inner circle.

In other instances, the doctors themselves may have questionable pasts or significant debts, and caring for a celebrity allows them to make large amounts of money, said Julie Albright, a sociologist at the University of Southern California.

So the big question why the health of Michael Jackson could be so vulnerable to this kind of RISK?

WHO IS MICHAEL JACKSON FOR THE HISTORY ?

Michael Jackson had a level of hero worship on a par with Elvis Presley or the Beatles but he was the first black star to inspire such a massive following around the world.

Total worldwide sales of more than 350 million records over his 40-year career give just a hint of the adoration there was for the King of Pop The fact that his death came on the eve of a comeback tour in London will leave his devotees feeling even more bereft.

While his career and wealth had waned greatly in recent years, there was still enough support for the concerts to sell out at a rate of nearly 40,000 an hour. Fans from as far afield as Japan, Germany and Dubai queued to buy their tickets.

Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records, was a disc jockey in Tel Aviv, Israel, when Thriller first dropped and witnessed first-hand how Jackson became an international icon.

His was a global appeal, Greenberg said, among fans and artists worldwide.He was as big in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as he was in America and Europe," Greenberg said. He had that universality that not many people had. The Beatles had it, Muhammad Ali had it, but not many other people have had it.

Jackson was known for far more than his music though. Speaking after his death in Los Angeles was announced, U.S. civil rights campaigner Rev. Al Sharpton paid tribute to the work of a trailblazer in helping people around the world through his charities. How will you remember Michael Jackson?

Sharpton added that the song Jackson co-wrote with Lionel Richie, We Are the World, a 1985 charity single that raised an estimated $50 million for famine relief in Africa, ushered in Live Aid and the era of celebrity philanthropy.

Jackson was the supreme showman who had an unrivalled knack of grabbing headlines. From his precocious abilities as the 11-year-old singer in the Jackson 5 to his legendary moon-walk dance, the star craved attention, and was rarely disappointed.

But in the years after his colossal 1982 hit album "Thriller" and its 1987 follow-up "Bad, much of the focus did not cast him in a good light.

In 1996 the lead singer of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, caused a furor at the Brit Awards in London when he invaded the stage during Jackson's performance of Earth Song in protest at the way Michael Jackson sees himself as some kind of Christ-like figure with the power of healing."

In the 2005 trial conducted in the glare of the world's media spotlight, Jackson was cleared of child molestation charges. Following the trial, Jackson's finances took a hit and he was forced to sell his Neverland ranch in California.

He later kept a low profile in the United States and spent time in Britain, where his friends included psychic spoonbender Uri Geller and Harrod's owner Mohamed Al Fayed, and also in Bahrain.

But in November last year, Jackson was sued by an Arab sheikh at the High Court in London for $7.7 million. They parted "amicably" after agreeing a settlement.

Jackson had been invited with his children and entourage to Bahrain by the king's son, Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who lavished money on Jackson and built a recording studio, which he believed would be used to record albums by Jackson using material the sheikh had helped to write.

But Jackson insisted there was no valid agreement and that the sheikh's case was based on mistake, misrepresentation and undue influence. He said sums of money paid out by the sheikh were gifts

As fans around the world mourn it is likely Michael Jackson will be remembered as a musical hero -- but also a man with human flaws
Michael Jackson knew exactly how his fate would be played out and feared his death would echo that of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley wrote in an online blog posted Friday morning.

Presley the daughter of Elvis, the King of Rock and the ex-wife of Jackson, the King of Pop, wrote on her MySpace page that she wanted "to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once. Her publicist confirmed Presley wrote the blog.

She said her short marriage to Jackson from May 1994 until January 1996 was not 'a sham' as is being reported in the press," but she divorced him because she was in over my head in trying to save Jackson "from the inevitable, which is what has just happened."

Jackson talked with her about his death during a deep conversation14 years ago about "the circumstances of my father's death."
I wanted to 'save him'," she wrote. "I wanted to save him from the inevitable, which is what has just happened."

"The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow," Presley wrote.

Their marriage, which some suggested was only to help Jackson's image, was real, she said.

It was an unusual relationship, yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a 'normal life' found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part," she wrote.Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

Presley called Jackson "an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, it was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad, she wrote.

Presley's blog entry ended with a thank you to those who would read it.

I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.

Presley's blog can be found online at http://bit.ly/5wR7p