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On June 25, 2009, Jackson collapsed at a rented home in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles. Attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician were unsuccessful.

Resuscitation efforts continued both en route to the UCLA Medical Center, and for an hour further after arriving at approximately 1:14 pm (20:14 UTC). He was noted to have already been in cardiac arrest by the paramedics who attended his house. Jackson was announced dead at about 2:26 pm local time (21:26 UTC). Many news organizations were generally very cautious about the initial reports of his death.

Media and a crowd outside the UCLA Medical Center following his death

The cause of death has not yet been determined. The case was transferred to the Los Angeles County Coroner for investigation. There has been speculation that Michael Jackson committed suicide, was murdered, accidentily overdosed on painkiller medication, or just suffered a tragic cardiac arrest from stress/illness.

The autopsy was scheduled for Friday, June 26, 2009. A final verdict on Michael Jackson’s autopsy will only be possible after the toxicology test results are confirmed.

In the hours following Jackson’s death, his record sales increased dramatically. His album Thriller climbed to number one on the American iTunes music chart, while another eight have made it into the top 40. In the UK, where Jackson would have performed in less than three weeks, his albums occupied 14 of the top 20 places on the Amazon.co.uk sales chart with Off The Wall topping the chart. Nine of his albums were featured on the American iTunes Top 10 chart, including Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, and 3 compilations. In the UK iTunes store on June 26, thirty-nine of Jackson’s songs were in the Top 100 best selling songs list, in addition to four Jackson 5 songs. Eight of his albums took over the top ten downloaded albums and the top 5 video downloads were all Michael Jackson videos. Along with this he also entered into the top top ten single downloads with “Man in the Mirror”^.

Less than four months before Jackson’s death one of his biographers, Ian Halperin, revealed that Jackson had a secret library of over 100 unreleased songs which he planned to release after his death to support his children.

RIP Michael Jackson, a tragic loss of a genius.

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Michael Jackson has announced a further 40, yes 40, dates to his 10 date UK tour. That brings the total to 50 nights!!

After the sham of getting pre-sale tickets (yeah, thanks Ticketmaster…) it seems that most of the tickets released went to touts and companies, and are now being sold for up to £3000 on eBay and dodgy ticket sites.

But now, thanks to the additional dates, ticketmaster will be releasing a whole load more of the pre-sale tickets to those who have already registered but were unsuccessful the first time. 02 customers should still be able to get priority tickets by sending a text message to 02 for their mobile. If you aren’t an 02 customer, get a free iPhone and you will be.

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I haven’t received my Michael Jackson pre-sale tickets code yet, but I’m hoping I do as I think this will be a great event to attend, maybe even historic.

If you miss out again, tickets will be on general sale from Friday 13th.

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Michael Jackson has today announced a string of concerts at the O2 Arena in the UK. For full details visit the O2

If you have an iPhone, chances are you are on the O2 network. But did you know you can use your O2 SIM card to get Michael Jackson Concert Tickets before they go on general sale?

That’s right, beat the queues with O2 Priority Tickets. Visit the O2 blueroom to join up and receive a free text message inviting you to purchase your Michael Jackson tickets before they go on general sale!

Of course this is for more than just Micheal Jackson, you can opt in to receive notification of any artist’s tour dates and buy priority tickets for any concert you want to attend.

Another reason to get yourself a free iPhone.

Michael Jackson was due to make a “special announcement” in London this afternoon, but has had his thunder stolen after posters were put up throughout the underground revealing he will play 10 concerts at the 02 arena this July.

Despite the posters’ appearance, the singer is still expected at the 02 arena later this afternoon to address an already-waiting press swarm.

The revealed 10-night run is shorter than anticipated, but will be a relief to some fans who wondered if the fallen superstar could fill the 20,000-capacity arena night-after-night.

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