TOPIC: MICHAEL JACKSON

WELCOME
LET’S BEAT IT!
INTRODUCTION
• MUSIC HAS BEEN A GREAT PART OF EVERYONE’S LIFE.
• IT CAN BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, MAKE PEOPLE FEEL EMOTIONS THAT THEY NEVER THOUGHT WAS
POSSIBLE AND, IN SOME CASES, EVEN CURE DEPRESSION.

• IT IS NOT HARD TO SAY THAT MUSIC IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF LIFE.

• THE MAN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED THE 20TH CENTURY MUSIC INDUSTRY WITH A LEGACY THAT IS STILL
PRACTICED TODAY WILL BE THE FOCUS IN THIS PRESENTATION.
BACKGROUND
•CHILDHOOD

• BORN IN GARY, INDIANA ON 29TH AUGUST 1958

• 8TH CHILD
• BORN TO JOE & KATHERINE JACKSON
• JOINED JACKSON BROTHERS
• FAMILY
• MARRIED LISA MARIE PRESLEY IN 1994
• NEXT MARRIED DEBBIE ROWE & HAD HIS FIRST & SECOND CHILD
• HIS THIRD CHILD’S MOTHER IS UNKNOWN
• ABUSIVE FATHER

• MJ’S FATHER WAS VERY ABUSIVE

• JOE WOULD BEAT UP MJ & SIBLINGS WHEN THEY MAKE MISTAKES DURING PRACTICE

• BROTHERS’ ACTIVITIES

• MJ STARTED AT THE AGE OF 8

• HE WAS FORCED TO ‘PLAY SLEEP’
• HE CONSIDERED HIMSELF TO LOSE HIS INNOCENCE AT A CRUDE AGE
SKIN
• DISEASE AND CAUSE OF DEATH
VITILIGO

• DEPIGMENTATION CONDITION ON SKIN

• MJ WAS SUBJECTED TO CRITICISM & ACCUSED OF TURNING WHITE WITH THE HELP OF PLASTIC SURGERY

• MASKING & RECONSTRUCTING

• USED MAKEUP & SKIN WHITENING CREAMS TO MASK UP
• SUCCUMBED TO SURGERIES
• UNDERGONE RHINOPLASTY AS A RESULT OF NOSE INJURY DURING A REHEARSAL SESSION
• WORE A GLOVE ONLY ON LEFT HAND TO MASK SKIN BLOTCH
• INJURIES

• IN 1984, HE WAS LITERALLY ON FIRE

• HE EXPERIENCED 2ND & 3RD DEGREE BURNS
• HE DAMAGED HIS SPINE ACCIDENTALLY IN 1999
• MJ WAS DISTURBED WITH SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE LATER YEARS

• MISCONCEPTION & ADDICTION

• BY THE END OF THE 90S, MJ DEVELOPED ADDICTION TO PROPOFOL

• THIS LED TO HEALTH COMPLICATIONS WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF THE KING OF POP
CONTRIBUTION TO POP CULTURE
• MOONWALK

• IN 1983, THE WORLD SAW MOONWALK PERFORMED BY MJ

• JEFFREY DANIEL TAUGHT THE DANCE MOVE TO MJ

• ANTI-GRAVITY LEAN

• SPECIFIC SHOES WERE INVENTED FOR MJ TO PERFORM THIS MOVE

• SUCCESS IN MUSIC INDUSTRY

• WON 13 GRAMMY AWARDS

• HIGH OCTANE PERFORMANCES & “SHAMONE” TOUCHES TO HIS ENTERTAINMENT

• INFLUENCE ON FUTURE ARTISTS DESPITE NO LONGER ALIVE

• NE-YO TO DRAKE, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TO ADAM LEVINE HAVE IMPLEMENTED HIS “TRADEMARKS”
• ALIVE OR NOT, THE KING LIVES
 CONCLUSION
THE KING OF POP HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE BEST EXAMPLE OF HOPE. HE STRIVED HARDER EVERYTIME HE WAS
SUBJECTED TO HURDLES. MICHAEL JACKSON IS NOT JUST A NAME WE MAY REMEMBER; HE CONTINUES TO
LIVE WITHIN HIS INTRANSIGENT FANS AS AN EMOTION. DESPITE HAVING TO BATTLE WITH MANY HEALTH
COMPLICATIONS, HE APPEARED TO BE A TRUE ARTIST TILL THE VERY LAST DAY. ‘THIS IS IT’ MAY HAVE NOT
TAKEN PLACE, ALAS, THIS, IS IT!

LIVE ON, KING OF POP, MJ

REFERENCES
• CHAMBERS, J. (2019, MARCH 22). WHIPPED WITH A STRAP AND BEATEN: EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON’S ABUSIVE CHILDHOOD. RETRIEVED OCTOBER 29, 2021

FROM HTTPS://WWW.MAMAMIA.COM.AU/MICHAEL-JACKSON-CHILDHOOD/AMP/

• HARRIS, J, E. (2016, JANUARY 17). DID MICHAEL JACKSON HAVE VITILIGO?. RETRIEVED OCTOBER 29, 2021

FROM HTTPS://WWW.UMASSMED.EDU/VITILIGO/BLOG/BLOG-POSTS1/2016/01/DID-MICHAEL-JACK/ SON-HAVE-VITILIGO/

• GRAD, S. (2019, JUNE 25). MICHAEL JACKSON’S FINAL DAY: A SLEEPLESS NIGHT, DANGEROUS DRUGS AND A DEATH THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. RETRIEVED OCTOBER 29, 2021

FROM HTTPS://WWW.LATIMES.COM/LOCAL/LANOW/LA-ME-MICHAEL-JACKSON-DEATH-ANNIVERSAR/ Y-20190625-STORY.HTML?_AMP=TRUE

• THE SLENDER GAMER 100. (2019, JANUARY 18). MICHAEL JACKSON TALKS ABOUT WHY HIS SKIN COLOUR CHANGED [VIDEO]. YOUTUBE.

HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=WAZ7SSLZYFC

• THEMJQUOTES (2014, MARCH 29). THE FOOTAGE YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO SEEPLASTIC SURGERY & VITILIGO- ENHANCED VHS [VIDEO]. YOUTUBE.

HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=TESOJVGVYKM