1)Michael Joesph Jackson 7th child of 9, Marlon Jackson had a twin named Brandon but Brandon died soon after birth.
2) birthdate:August 29,1958 on a late summer night
3)favorite color: red,black,gold and silver
4) )Michael Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards and recieved the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award.
5)Five of Michael's solo albums-"Off the wall, Thriller, BAD, Dangerous, and History" all with Epic Records- are among the top sellers of all time and "Thriller" holds the distiniction as the largest selling album worldwide in the history of the recording industry with more than 250 million units sold.Additionally, singles released from the Thriller album sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, another all time record.
6) Siblings:(order from oldest to youngest) Reebie,Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,Latoya,Marlon& Brandon,Michael,Randy,Janet.
7) Parents:Katherine Jackson and Joesph Jackson married in 1941.
8) Favorite song: Charlie Chaplin"Smile" and Shaggy and Mr.Bombastic "it wasn't me".
9) Favorite artist(s): Jackie Wilson, Diana Ross, James Brown, Charlie Chaplin, The Beatles,Smokey Robinson,Gladys Knight and the Pips,
10)Celebrity crushes: Diana Ross
11)Michael made the longest music video in history Ghost which also included the two songs 2bad and is it scary at a record breaking 40 mins.
12) Bad is the #2 best selling album of all time.
13) The home movie "The making of Thriller" is the best selling home ,movie of all time or the best selling behind the scenes
video of all time.
14)Michael's favorite animated character was Pinocchio and Peter Pan.
15)Michael was ticklish.
16)Michael wrote a song for Diana Ross called Muscles and it was dedicated to her and his new boa constructor,Muscles.
17)Michael was a prankster. When he was little he would put spiders in his sister's bed.
18) Michael was co-starred in the Wiz a 1979 african-american version of The Wiz, he starred in Moonwalker where the scenes of Smooth Crimnal and Come Together. He was also in 2002's Men in Black II, he played agent MJ. He was also in a not so known music viedo Miss Castaway and the Island Girls in 2005.The movie was not successful and Michael was too popular to come a flim in person so he filmed with the camera crew at his library at home and the special effects filled in the rest.
19)Michael was funny. He likes to crack a few funny jokes but he rarely told the jokes in public.
20) He was VERY shy. He often said that when he is on stage a new soul comes out of him. But when he is doing interviews,accepting awards and giving speeches, or meeting fans he is really shy and easily embarrassed.
21)Michael's most embarrassing moment actually happened twice in his life. His saddest point his falsly accussed child mbiolestation charges. He was accussed of molesting a child in 1993 but it seems as if his parents took advantage when they realized their son was becoming friends with one of the greatest pairs of feet to walk the surface of the Earth. Same thing in 2004-5 ADULTS humilated Michael at that point.
22)If you think back children never let him down. That's why he had that everlasting love for them. It made him re-live his childhood something that most kids get to live.Michael was like E.T he was extra terrestial that's people who can only come maybe once in a millieum.
23)Michael had two hall of fame stars one for being in the J5 and the other for being a solo artist. The same thing when it came to the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
24)Michael thought(when he was in the J5 and younger) that his voice sounded like Minnie Mouse.
25) Michael had a friend when he was little named Ben and Ben was a rat that Michael thought was the only one who believed in him.But one sad day Joesph killed him.When Michael was 14, he released his first solo album Ben which also had a movie that went along with it. Michael thought it was a goodway to honor his friend Ben.
26)Michael had all sorts of animals. But his all time favorites were Gypsy( a gift from Liz Taylor -elephant-), Bubbles(a chimp which lived at Havenhurst(parents house) for a few years. Michael once said that it took a while for his mother to say yes to the chimp. But out of all things he was afraid of Liz Taylors's dog which was smaller than his foot.He wasn't scared of dogs just her dog. Her dog never bit him he was just naturally scared of the dog.
27)Michael also has the most grammy awards won by one person in a single year.He won 8 awards at the 1984 Grammy's.
28)Michael was a huge fan of the 3 stoggies.
29)Michael never said that he had a favorite food, but he like Mexican food,veggies and KFC.
30)Michael's signature song was Billie Jean and the music video was the first music video to air on MTV by a african artist.
31)Favorite superhero: Morph from X-men
32)Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem, South Carolina on
My Mind.
33)He has waxworks in five Madame Tussauds museums across the world. Only Elvis
Presley and Madonna have more.
34)Michael had a pet ram called Mr Tibbs.
35)Michael performed Billie Jean on Motown 25:anniversary and he his moonwalk for the first time. It was then when we knew Michael as the greatest entertainer of all time. No one had ever seen dancing like that. He did a combination of a lot of poses and robot type moves..
36)His total lifetime earnings from music are estimated at $500 million.
37)Jackson regularly wore a white brace to remind people of children suffering
around the world.
38)Jackson had a pet python called Crusher
39)The video for Scream was the most expensive ever at £3.8 million. It was also the first and the last time he had ever done a tour with his sister,Janet.
40)A library once accused the Michael of owing $1 million in overdue book fines
41)Michael was very shy when it came to his skin. He would wash his own face in the dark and he thought he was ugly. Anbody including people who don't even like him would he to disaggree. That's where the shy and embarrassment came in. those were his teenage years. Michael as a young child ate a lot of fried foods so his face was chubbyier. Tabloids accussed him for have plastic suregy to become more sexier,but he said he only has had 2 suregies on his nose and his hair(after his hair caught fire after a rehearsal for Pepsi Generation in 1983). He clamied his nose surgies were so he could sing higher notes. But in a 2010 interview with his mother, she said he had way more than two that he was just embarrassed to say how many.
42) Michael's dangerous song was in the the movie Free Willy.
43)Jackson was a vegetarian
44)HIStory was the biggest selling double album ever released in the United States.
45)Jackson was given a royal title in the Ivory Coast in 1992.
46)Before concerts he would drink Ricola candy dissolved in hot water.
47)Micahel's owns the patented shoe device that allowed dancers to lean forward at
gravity defying angles
48).He was a best man at Liza Minnelli’s wedding to David Gest.
49)The largest television audience in US history watched him perform at half time
during the 1993 Super Bowl
50)A survey in 1997 declared him the Most Famous Person in the World
51)Jackson once described Elizabeth Taylor as “a warm cuddly blanket that I love
to snuggle up to”
52)He recorded a voice-over on The Simpsons.
53)Macauley Culkin is godfather to two of Michael’s children
54)He is godfather to Nicole Richie
53) Michael co-wrote We are the world with Lionel Richie with at least 100 other artist singing in in too. The single and music video was for the famin that happened in Africa and the foundation was USA for Africa.
54). He is also godfather to Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb’s son Michael
55)He was four years old when he began singing with his brothers Marlon,
Jermaine, Jackie and Tito in the Jackson 5
The Jackson 5’s number one hits included “I Want You Back,” “ABC” and
“I’ll Be There”.
56)In 2002 Jackson caused controversy when he playfully dangled his infant son,
Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin in front of fans
57)MC Hammer once challenged Michael to a dance off.
58)Jackson’s father Joseph worked in a steel mill and his mom worked at a Sear's.
59)Michael was born in Gary,IN.
60)Michael was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness by his mother and evenutally was baptized to become a christan in 1987. But Michael didn't celebrate his first christmas until 1993 and he still thought he did something wrong by celebrating it.
61)Michael and his familiy did family days where they spent time with each other all day since they couldn't celebrate christmas or birthdays.
62)The family band was originally called the Jackson Brothers
63)Wild stories about him included that he slept in an oxygen chamber and that he
bought the bones of The Elephant Man. Both examples of rumors that tabloids started.
64)Michael was promoted to joint lead vocals at the age of eight and the band
became the Jackson 5. They toured extensively in the US Midwest from 1966 to 1968. When Michael was 4,he sand Climb Ev'ry Moutain at a school rectital.It was right then when they realized they had a lead vocalist as a son.
65) During the world tour for Bad he performed to 4.4 million people. He also wrote Moonwalker the autobiography and it was decieded to do in 1983. In 1984 he had completed the book but said he didn't want to publish it. So he thought about it and changed his mind. The book was released in 1988.
66)He paid $17 million in 1988 for the land in California that became the
Neverland Ranch
67. The 2,700-acre property had a theme park, a menagerie, and a movie
theare.Its grounds were protected by a security staff of 40. Neverland was valued at $100 million in 2003
68)He cut his Dangerous tour short because a illness. He donated all his profits to charity. He also dontaed all the money from Man in the Mirror to charity.
69)It's like a tradition for Michael to visit a orphange when he comes to a city before a convert. When he performed songs like We are the world, Earth Song, or Heal the World he would bring those children from those orphanges om stage woth him durning a concert.
70)In 1992 he founded the Heal the World Foundation which brought underprivileged children to Neverland and made donations worldwide
71)When he visited the African country of Gabon 100,000 people turned out to see him
72)Bubbles was adopted at the age of three from a cancer research clinic in Texas.
73). Bubbles sat in on recording sessions for the Bad album and accompanied
Jackson to Tokyo.The artist Jeff Koons made a series of sculptures of Jackson and Bubbles
74) Michael Jackson had 2 children, by wife of three years,Debbie Rowe Prince Michael Jackson and Paris Katherine Jackson. His other son was nicknamed Blanket but his full name is Prince Michael Jackson II
75)Michael Jackson died June 25,2009 at 2:26pm in his rented Los Angles Home from a overdose of Propofol at the age of 50. Leaving Rebbie,Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,LaToya,Marlon,Randy,Janet,his parents,and 3 children etc.
76)There is a 404-paged Michael Jackson Opus that was endoresed by Michael but Michael didn't write the book. People who were the closest to Michael wrote things that they secretly thought about him and their true feelings for our little angels.
77)Michael's had his first girlfriend when he was in his late teens Tatum O'Neal was his first girlfriend.He wrote in his book,Moonwalker, his strong feelings for her. But in Jermaine's book,You are Not Alone,he described Michael as being giddy around her and that when he asked Michael about them that Michae said it was nothing.
78) Michael's Leave me alone has two diffrent meanings. One as in if a girl and guy break up that the guys's message is to leave me alone. The other message is aimed at the tabloids saying that you should leave me alone. Micahel and Janet's Scream.
79)Michael received a Presidential Humanitarian Award from Ronald Reagan in 1984
for his support of charities helping people overcome alcohol and drug abuse.eam also gives that kind of message.
80) Micahel dedicated his 1997 Blood on the DanceFloor album to Sir Elton John.
81)Nicknames for Michael:The Gloved One,King of Pop,KOP,Mike,MJ,Mikey,applehead(kids called him that!),Smelly,
82)Michael's Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all time.
83)Michael helped Michael design the amusement park and theater at his Neverland Valley Ranch home in California.
84)Michael built beds into the walls of his candy filled theater so kids that are bed-sick can still come wacth the plays,movies,magic shows,etc. Kids daily come to his ranch so they can get a tour. He wants to make them happy especially the ones that are sick because they don't deserve what they are going through.
85)Lisa Marie Presley's former brother-in-law and his wife were the witnesses at
her Dominican Republic wedding to Michael in 1994.
86)Michael shares the record for the most Grammy Awards won in one year with Carlos
Santana and Norah Jones - they each won eight.
87Michael's performance during the 1993 SuperBowl half-time show drew the largest
TV audience in American history.
88) The two most known things in the world are at #1-Coca Cola and #2- Michael Jackson
89)Michael provided a voiceover on The Simpsons - but it remained a secret for 12
years. He voiced a character in a mental institution in the Stark Raving Dad
episode, which aired in 1991, but, because of a contractual problem, Michael had
to be credited as John Jay Smith. His contribution to the classic cartoon series
remained a rumour among fans until The Simpsons creator Matt Groening confirmed
it really was Michael when the episode was released on DVD in 2003.
90)Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/02.
91)There have been publications of Jackson’s ancestry, stating that he has a great great grandfather of the Cherokee Indian tribe.
92)Prince Albert Scruse is Katherine's father.Prince was born in 1907 in Alabama and died on January 21, 1997 in Chicago.
Prince Albert was the son of Julia Bell and Prince Screws, he was born in Jernigan, Russell, Alabama. Prince was the brother of Richard, Katie, Hattie, Ann and Willie. He and his wife Martha "Mattie" were the parents of two daughters, Hattie and Kattie. Kattie "Katherine" married Joe Jackson. Albert changed his surname from Screws to Scruse.
93)Michael had a drivers license. He just had someone register it for him, but
he rarely used it.
94)Michael didn't have his first girlfriend until he was in his 18 or 19. Michael did have a childhood crush on Diana Ross.
95)The Jacksons last family day with Michael Jackson was on May 18,2009. It was celebrating the
longtime marriage of Katherine and Joepsh.
96)Joesph wanted his kids to call him Joesph not dad or daddy.That is the reason Michael had his kids call him
daddy beacause he never got to. He wanted to call his father daddy as a kid so
badly.
97)There was A rumor that Michael and Madonna were dating, but they only went on one or two dates and then became frenimes in a sort of sense. Michael said in a interview with Steve Harvey that she was indeed a "evil witch"
and that she was into things that he wasn't into and tried to get him into the
things she was into.
98)Michael met Lisa Marie Presly when he was 17 and she was 7 she is exactly 10 years younger then he is. That he saw her
for the first time that he saw her but they never got in touch. So when she was older he would ask his manager ALL the time do you know Lisa Marie Presely because he had the biggest crush on her. He would always say no but I will get into it. Michael explained his pain and a slight jealousy when he saw her on a magazine cover with her new husband. After that marriage started to end, Michael then was able to easier re-connect hisself and then started talking to her. The
begining of a frisky friendship to a rosy relationship.
99) Jermaine said in his book,You are not alone:Michael Jackson, that he believed that Joepsh strictness came from being humiliated by a teacher at a young age and his 7 year old sisters death when he was 11. That was the last furneal he pleaded he would ever go to until July 2009.
100)Michael and his brothers did a skit where he and his brothers imatated the famous Life ceral commercial.
101)Michael died on June 25,2009 at 2:26pm(Californian time).
102)Michael was always afraid that he would come over as a nussiance.'
103) When he was a child his favourite books included Rip Van Winkle and The Old Man and the Sea and Jungle Book.
104)Michael's favorite cartoon character was Peter Pan.
105)Michael owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem, South
Carolina on My Mind.
106)Michael's shoe size was a 9 and a half.
107)Michael wears a 32 hanes size.
108)Michael's double album HIStory is the biggest selling double album ever released in the U.S.A.
109)Michael's Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all
time.
110)Michael helped plan neighbor Gregory Peck's funeral.
111)Michael's elephant ,Gypsy, was a gift from Elizabeth Taylor and in return he gave her a portrait of herself.It was really big it took up pretty much an entire Neverland like wall.
112)The address to the Jacksons family home in Gary,IN is 2300 Jackson st, no the street was not
named after them. It was a huge conicedence.
113)Michael's nickname for Jermaine was Erms.
114)In a 1997 trip to India,Michael said that he was in a place full of gods and goddess that he felt like he was home.
115)Also in that India trip,the hotel suite he was in he signed all the furniture in the hotel room. From the mirror to the couch and recliners. He said to the manager of the hotel to auction off all the furniture and give the money to charities.
116)Michael was suppossed to be at the top of the world trade center on September 11th 2001 but overslept because of the 30th anniversary party he did the previous night. When he woke up the damage was already done. Marlon was on a plane that left early in the morning,but it returned back to Mannhattan.The Jacksons took a bus state by state to California to get out of New York as fast as possible.
117)Michael had plans to do This is it as a tour then do his last solo tour that would take him to about the end of 2013 and then he was doing to do a tour with his brothers as the last tour he would ever do because his mother,Katherine,had said,"I am 80 Michael,I want to see you and your brothers tour again before I leave this earth." Michael responded of course. This tour was suppossed to take him to the end of 2014 and maybe early 2015.After that at 55,he would retire from the music buisness. He wantd to show the world the directing ideas that he had been hiding since the 80s'. He would want to be doing movies and animation projects. That was his plan.So you see,Michael had said that after This is it would be the final curtain call.But he wanted to suprise the world with other ideas he had. That was Michael always wanted to be one step ahead of the game. You can read more on this and Michael plans after his death in his brother Jermaine's book dedicated to Michael called"You are not alone:Through a brother's eyes".
118)Michael endorsed the book full of rare pictures and articles about him that was named the Michael Jackson Opus.
119)Katherine Jackson said in an interview for a TV documetary dedicated to Michael,that when she first heard the Jackson 5's first mega hit,I want you back, that she didn't like it. She was sort of comparing it to the songs that had been writte and got popular around that time. That other songs had that soul rythmn to it,but "I want you Back" did not have that soul sound to it and that is what made it unique. It started years to come of that sound that beat of music.
120)Lots of people said that Michael was really shy and quiet and wasn't the top of the talkers when it came to socializing with other people that weren't his brothers.
121)Michael met Quincy Jones in the movie for the Wiz and asked him would he produce his next solo album that would be called Off the Wall.That friendship was spreaded to Michael's next future albums Thriller and BAD.
122)Thriller almost didn't come out, because the first set Michael was dissatiisfied.He took a break.Made some changes and through the mixes and eventually decieded to let it out.
123)Michael loved vintage wine,but it made him reguritate.He liked the taste of it but it made him sick to the stomach.Classic Michael right?
124)Michael wanted the part of Wille Wonka in the 2005 remake of Charilie in the Choclate Factory.But because of the 2003-5 child molestation charges,his attorneies and others dealing with the case said it would be better if he stay out of the limelight because of what he was dealing with.The part ended up going to Johnny Depp.
125)When Michael was little, when he was in the middle of taking in everything, he said that when he was wacthing stars like James Brown or Jackie Wilson that he would get angry at the camera man because they would close up on the star when he was dancing instead of a full body image where you can see his feet as he dances.
126)When Michael was a teen, he was so horrified with the way he looked that he washed his face in the dark. He was very shy adn sensitive when it came to his appearance in that time. He felt he was ugly. But he was not. He couldn't be any far from being ugly. It is sad to think that he went through that hard time.
127)Michael had more awards then any other artist in musical history.
128)The BAD tour was the biggest concert series of all time and Dangerous and HIStory follow behind it.
129)Thriller is the #1 best selling album of all time
130)BAD is the #2 best selling album of all time.'
131)On BAD Michael released a amazing 9 singles, Thriller he released 7 and Dangerous he did nine singles as well.
132)The music video for "Thriller"was the world's most viewed music video until Justin Bieber broke the record with the music video for his song "Baby".
133)Michael also has more Gunniess World Records than any other performer.
134)The Making of Thriller, a docmentary that showed behind the scenes footage of Michael getting the make-up done for the werewolf and zombie characters, rehersals for the choregraphy and much more. The Making of Thriller became the world's best selling behind the scenes video.
135)Michael's Superbowl performance was the most watched thing in American history were he performed his three songs Jam, Black or White, Billie Jean and Heal the World.
136)Michael's HIStory song, You are not alone, became the first song to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
137)Michael holds the record currently for the only artist in the history of music so far to have gotten 8 Grammys' in one night. There have been other artist who got more than 8 nominations but didn't actually win all the awards. There have also been other artist that got 6 or 7 awards but he still holds the record for 8.
138)He had the most #1 hits of the 80s'.
139) At the end of the 80s' decade he was nicknamed "Man of the 80s". Elvis was the 50s', the Beatles were the 60s', vary of aritst were the 70s' and Michael was the 80s'.
140) He also got the biggest endorsement deal ever at 15,000,000.
141)He had a billion dollar entertainment contract.
142)Michael wanted to be the only artist to do the Superbowl halftime show twice. Before he died, from 2009-2014 he had a five year plan mapped out. He was going to do the This Is It tour that would take him into 2010. He was going to do the Superbowl performance that the Black Eyed Peas did instead, he was going to do another tour with his brothers that would take him into late 2011.Then he was going to trick the world, make them think that This Is It was going to be the end. He was going to do a worldwide tour and that would be it. He would show the world the directing ideas he had and the aritistic side of himself. After that final tour that would take him into early 2014, he was going to give up singing and dancing and staying behind the scenes. To bad he never will get to do it.
143)The name King of Pop came from the fans. Fans just started calling him that and it eventually went global. But Oprah hereself personally thinks it all started in the late 80s' when he was accepting an award, Elizabeth Taylor called him the King of Pop, Rock and Soul and it all kind of started from there.
144)The reason Michael had the amusement park and the zoo and so forth is because every three weeks he had sick children come to the ranch. In his theather, he and Maculay Culkin designed it, he put beds built into the walls for children who are bed written can still enjoy the magic shows and the mini performance he does for them and cartoons he puts on for them. He really cares about children. It is because when you haven't had a childhood, or anything you never done that lots of other people have done before, you tend to wonder what it is like. So Michael goes through his childhood as an adult. All the people who have had childhood or could go to the park whenever they wanted or could go to the carinival with a friend without be bombarded have had a childhood. Michael never could do anything like that. He did enjoy what he did, but he never had a childhood. Also all the tabliods and the false allegations, those were adults doing that to him. He saw a source of innocence in the child mind. That's why he loves them. He can be himself without being called weird or bizzare. This is getting to be a source of oppinon, but that is why I like Michael. He had that uniqueness about him and that was a bonus to the man with one shiny glove on on our pants pulled ot high, moving backwards on two feet, making the best muisc and dancing ever seen,the wonderful artistry work, movie ideas, acting ideas and much more. That wrapped in one body is pretty unique. That is what I love about Michael. You may think well, my job is the source of my life, or what I do is my personal definition. If you were to define Michael Joesph Jackson somewhere in that definition will involve child. That's Michael. That's why he should be loved he shouldn't be hated. It's sad to think that he had his childhood stolen from him and everyone else was playing and having fun. Imagine you in his shoes at that time and tell me it is still bizzare. That should be a fact but because of the mean people in this world it is not.
145)He was really funny. He was a prankster too. So watch your every angle if something seems supsious if you were around Michael Jackson.
146)He could beatbox really good. He would practically make his voice all the instrumets in the song.
147) He got really embarrassed and shy in interviews and giving public apperances or speeches. If you watch some of the acceptance speeches you see how shy he gets just when the audience won't stop screaming his name he apperantly had a hard time controling that. In 2005, he held a little celeberation were he held an event called MJ 45th anniversary. He wasn't
performing or anything he was just going to play his music, he would be greeted by a cake, have dinner with the audience and give speeches about his future plans. During his speech, he says something like "I have the imagination------." He was cut off by a fan finishing his sentence for him saying "THE IMAGINATION OF ME AND YOU MIKE!!!" and the whole audience started laughing he was so embarrassed his face was drained of the color red. It was funny and that just goes to show you there is more to the person that we see performing Billie Jean, Thriller or the way you make me feel.
148)Michael described his talent as" an instrument of nature."
149)Michael Jackson's This is It concert rehearsal footage that turned into a movie in late 2010 was the biggest concert footage of all time for a few months unitil a few months later when in Feburary Justin Bieber released his concert footage movie type documentary called Never Say Never and that became the biggest concert footage in history.
150)Michael often was seen with childhood star Emmanuel Lewis especially at award shows such as the AMA's and the Grammys'.
151)The tribute album to remember that 25 years ago Michael's BAD album was released. On September 18,2012 the BAD 25 similar to the album Michael released in 2008 for the 25 year anniversary of Thriller.
152)Michael is the godfather of Bee Gee's singer, Barry Gibs, son named Michael Gibbs.
153) His first kiss was from Brooke Shields. a
2) birthdate:August 29,1958 on a late summer night
3)favorite color: red,black,gold and silver
4) )Michael Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards and recieved the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award.
5)Five of Michael's solo albums-"Off the wall, Thriller, BAD, Dangerous, and History" all with Epic Records- are among the top sellers of all time and "Thriller" holds the distiniction as the largest selling album worldwide in the history of the recording industry with more than 250 million units sold.Additionally, singles released from the Thriller album sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, another all time record.
6) Siblings:(order from oldest to youngest) Reebie,Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,Latoya,Marlon& Brandon,Michael,Randy,Janet.
7) Parents:Katherine Jackson and Joesph Jackson married in 1941.
8) Favorite song: Charlie Chaplin"Smile" and Shaggy and Mr.Bombastic "it wasn't me".
9) Favorite artist(s): Jackie Wilson, Diana Ross, James Brown, Charlie Chaplin, The Beatles,Smokey Robinson,Gladys Knight and the Pips,
10)Celebrity crushes: Diana Ross
11)Michael made the longest music video in history Ghost which also included the two songs 2bad and is it scary at a record breaking 40 mins.
12) Bad is the #2 best selling album of all time.
13) The home movie "The making of Thriller" is the best selling home ,movie of all time or the best selling behind the scenes
video of all time.
14)Michael's favorite animated character was Pinocchio and Peter Pan.
15)Michael was ticklish.
16)Michael wrote a song for Diana Ross called Muscles and it was dedicated to her and his new boa constructor,Muscles.
17)Michael was a prankster. When he was little he would put spiders in his sister's bed.
18) Michael was co-starred in the Wiz a 1979 african-american version of The Wiz, he starred in Moonwalker where the scenes of Smooth Crimnal and Come Together. He was also in 2002's Men in Black II, he played agent MJ. He was also in a not so known music viedo Miss Castaway and the Island Girls in 2005.The movie was not successful and Michael was too popular to come a flim in person so he filmed with the camera crew at his library at home and the special effects filled in the rest.
19)Michael was funny. He likes to crack a few funny jokes but he rarely told the jokes in public.
20) He was VERY shy. He often said that when he is on stage a new soul comes out of him. But when he is doing interviews,accepting awards and giving speeches, or meeting fans he is really shy and easily embarrassed.
21)Michael's most embarrassing moment actually happened twice in his life. His saddest point his falsly accussed child mbiolestation charges. He was accussed of molesting a child in 1993 but it seems as if his parents took advantage when they realized their son was becoming friends with one of the greatest pairs of feet to walk the surface of the Earth. Same thing in 2004-5 ADULTS humilated Michael at that point.
22)If you think back children never let him down. That's why he had that everlasting love for them. It made him re-live his childhood something that most kids get to live.Michael was like E.T he was extra terrestial that's people who can only come maybe once in a millieum.
23)Michael had two hall of fame stars one for being in the J5 and the other for being a solo artist. The same thing when it came to the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
24)Michael thought(when he was in the J5 and younger) that his voice sounded like Minnie Mouse.
25) Michael had a friend when he was little named Ben and Ben was a rat that Michael thought was the only one who believed in him.But one sad day Joesph killed him.When Michael was 14, he released his first solo album Ben which also had a movie that went along with it. Michael thought it was a goodway to honor his friend Ben.
26)Michael had all sorts of animals. But his all time favorites were Gypsy( a gift from Liz Taylor -elephant-), Bubbles(a chimp which lived at Havenhurst(parents house) for a few years. Michael once said that it took a while for his mother to say yes to the chimp. But out of all things he was afraid of Liz Taylors's dog which was smaller than his foot.He wasn't scared of dogs just her dog. Her dog never bit him he was just naturally scared of the dog.
27)Michael also has the most grammy awards won by one person in a single year.He won 8 awards at the 1984 Grammy's.
28)Michael was a huge fan of the 3 stoggies.
29)Michael never said that he had a favorite food, but he like Mexican food,veggies and KFC.
30)Michael's signature song was Billie Jean and the music video was the first music video to air on MTV by a african artist.
31)Favorite superhero: Morph from X-men
32)Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem, South Carolina on
My Mind.
33)He has waxworks in five Madame Tussauds museums across the world. Only Elvis
Presley and Madonna have more.
34)Michael had a pet ram called Mr Tibbs.
35)Michael performed Billie Jean on Motown 25:anniversary and he his moonwalk for the first time. It was then when we knew Michael as the greatest entertainer of all time. No one had ever seen dancing like that. He did a combination of a lot of poses and robot type moves..
36)His total lifetime earnings from music are estimated at $500 million.
37)Jackson regularly wore a white brace to remind people of children suffering
around the world.
38)Jackson had a pet python called Crusher
39)The video for Scream was the most expensive ever at £3.8 million. It was also the first and the last time he had ever done a tour with his sister,Janet.
40)A library once accused the Michael of owing $1 million in overdue book fines
41)Michael was very shy when it came to his skin. He would wash his own face in the dark and he thought he was ugly. Anbody including people who don't even like him would he to disaggree. That's where the shy and embarrassment came in. those were his teenage years. Michael as a young child ate a lot of fried foods so his face was chubbyier. Tabloids accussed him for have plastic suregy to become more sexier,but he said he only has had 2 suregies on his nose and his hair(after his hair caught fire after a rehearsal for Pepsi Generation in 1983). He clamied his nose surgies were so he could sing higher notes. But in a 2010 interview with his mother, she said he had way more than two that he was just embarrassed to say how many.
42) Michael's dangerous song was in the the movie Free Willy.
43)Jackson was a vegetarian
44)HIStory was the biggest selling double album ever released in the United States.
45)Jackson was given a royal title in the Ivory Coast in 1992.
46)Before concerts he would drink Ricola candy dissolved in hot water.
47)Micahel's owns the patented shoe device that allowed dancers to lean forward at
gravity defying angles
48).He was a best man at Liza Minnelli’s wedding to David Gest.
49)The largest television audience in US history watched him perform at half time
during the 1993 Super Bowl
50)A survey in 1997 declared him the Most Famous Person in the World
51)Jackson once described Elizabeth Taylor as “a warm cuddly blanket that I love
to snuggle up to”
52)He recorded a voice-over on The Simpsons.
53)Macauley Culkin is godfather to two of Michael’s children
54)He is godfather to Nicole Richie
53) Michael co-wrote We are the world with Lionel Richie with at least 100 other artist singing in in too. The single and music video was for the famin that happened in Africa and the foundation was USA for Africa.
54). He is also godfather to Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb’s son Michael
55)He was four years old when he began singing with his brothers Marlon,
Jermaine, Jackie and Tito in the Jackson 5
The Jackson 5’s number one hits included “I Want You Back,” “ABC” and
“I’ll Be There”.
56)In 2002 Jackson caused controversy when he playfully dangled his infant son,
Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin in front of fans
57)MC Hammer once challenged Michael to a dance off.
58)Jackson’s father Joseph worked in a steel mill and his mom worked at a Sear's.
59)Michael was born in Gary,IN.
60)Michael was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness by his mother and evenutally was baptized to become a christan in 1987. But Michael didn't celebrate his first christmas until 1993 and he still thought he did something wrong by celebrating it.
61)Michael and his familiy did family days where they spent time with each other all day since they couldn't celebrate christmas or birthdays.
62)The family band was originally called the Jackson Brothers
63)Wild stories about him included that he slept in an oxygen chamber and that he
bought the bones of The Elephant Man. Both examples of rumors that tabloids started.
64)Michael was promoted to joint lead vocals at the age of eight and the band
became the Jackson 5. They toured extensively in the US Midwest from 1966 to 1968. When Michael was 4,he sand Climb Ev'ry Moutain at a school rectital.It was right then when they realized they had a lead vocalist as a son.
65) During the world tour for Bad he performed to 4.4 million people. He also wrote Moonwalker the autobiography and it was decieded to do in 1983. In 1984 he had completed the book but said he didn't want to publish it. So he thought about it and changed his mind. The book was released in 1988.
66)He paid $17 million in 1988 for the land in California that became the
Neverland Ranch
67. The 2,700-acre property had a theme park, a menagerie, and a movie
theare.Its grounds were protected by a security staff of 40. Neverland was valued at $100 million in 2003
68)He cut his Dangerous tour short because a illness. He donated all his profits to charity. He also dontaed all the money from Man in the Mirror to charity.
69)It's like a tradition for Michael to visit a orphange when he comes to a city before a convert. When he performed songs like We are the world, Earth Song, or Heal the World he would bring those children from those orphanges om stage woth him durning a concert.
70)In 1992 he founded the Heal the World Foundation which brought underprivileged children to Neverland and made donations worldwide
71)When he visited the African country of Gabon 100,000 people turned out to see him
72)Bubbles was adopted at the age of three from a cancer research clinic in Texas.
73). Bubbles sat in on recording sessions for the Bad album and accompanied
Jackson to Tokyo.The artist Jeff Koons made a series of sculptures of Jackson and Bubbles
74) Michael Jackson had 2 children, by wife of three years,Debbie Rowe Prince Michael Jackson and Paris Katherine Jackson. His other son was nicknamed Blanket but his full name is Prince Michael Jackson II
75)Michael Jackson died June 25,2009 at 2:26pm in his rented Los Angles Home from a overdose of Propofol at the age of 50. Leaving Rebbie,Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,LaToya,Marlon,Randy,Janet,his parents,and 3 children etc.
76)There is a 404-paged Michael Jackson Opus that was endoresed by Michael but Michael didn't write the book. People who were the closest to Michael wrote things that they secretly thought about him and their true feelings for our little angels.
77)Michael's had his first girlfriend when he was in his late teens Tatum O'Neal was his first girlfriend.He wrote in his book,Moonwalker, his strong feelings for her. But in Jermaine's book,You are Not Alone,he described Michael as being giddy around her and that when he asked Michael about them that Michae said it was nothing.
78) Michael's Leave me alone has two diffrent meanings. One as in if a girl and guy break up that the guys's message is to leave me alone. The other message is aimed at the tabloids saying that you should leave me alone. Micahel and Janet's Scream.
79)Michael received a Presidential Humanitarian Award from Ronald Reagan in 1984
for his support of charities helping people overcome alcohol and drug abuse.eam also gives that kind of message.
80) Micahel dedicated his 1997 Blood on the DanceFloor album to Sir Elton John.
81)Nicknames for Michael:The Gloved One,King of Pop,KOP,Mike,MJ,Mikey,applehead(kids called him that!),Smelly,
82)Michael's Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all time.
83)Michael helped Michael design the amusement park and theater at his Neverland Valley Ranch home in California.
84)Michael built beds into the walls of his candy filled theater so kids that are bed-sick can still come wacth the plays,movies,magic shows,etc. Kids daily come to his ranch so they can get a tour. He wants to make them happy especially the ones that are sick because they don't deserve what they are going through.
85)Lisa Marie Presley's former brother-in-law and his wife were the witnesses at
her Dominican Republic wedding to Michael in 1994.
86)Michael shares the record for the most Grammy Awards won in one year with Carlos
Santana and Norah Jones - they each won eight.
87Michael's performance during the 1993 SuperBowl half-time show drew the largest
TV audience in American history.
88) The two most known things in the world are at #1-Coca Cola and #2- Michael Jackson
89)Michael provided a voiceover on The Simpsons - but it remained a secret for 12
years. He voiced a character in a mental institution in the Stark Raving Dad
episode, which aired in 1991, but, because of a contractual problem, Michael had
to be credited as John Jay Smith. His contribution to the classic cartoon series
remained a rumour among fans until The Simpsons creator Matt Groening confirmed
it really was Michael when the episode was released on DVD in 2003.
90)Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/02.
91)There have been publications of Jackson’s ancestry, stating that he has a great great grandfather of the Cherokee Indian tribe.
92)Prince Albert Scruse is Katherine's father.Prince was born in 1907 in Alabama and died on January 21, 1997 in Chicago.
Prince Albert was the son of Julia Bell and Prince Screws, he was born in Jernigan, Russell, Alabama. Prince was the brother of Richard, Katie, Hattie, Ann and Willie. He and his wife Martha "Mattie" were the parents of two daughters, Hattie and Kattie. Kattie "Katherine" married Joe Jackson. Albert changed his surname from Screws to Scruse.
93)Michael had a drivers license. He just had someone register it for him, but
he rarely used it.
94)Michael didn't have his first girlfriend until he was in his 18 or 19. Michael did have a childhood crush on Diana Ross.
95)The Jacksons last family day with Michael Jackson was on May 18,2009. It was celebrating the
longtime marriage of Katherine and Joepsh.
96)Joesph wanted his kids to call him Joesph not dad or daddy.That is the reason Michael had his kids call him
daddy beacause he never got to. He wanted to call his father daddy as a kid so
badly.
97)There was A rumor that Michael and Madonna were dating, but they only went on one or two dates and then became frenimes in a sort of sense. Michael said in a interview with Steve Harvey that she was indeed a "evil witch"
and that she was into things that he wasn't into and tried to get him into the
things she was into.
98)Michael met Lisa Marie Presly when he was 17 and she was 7 she is exactly 10 years younger then he is. That he saw her
for the first time that he saw her but they never got in touch. So when she was older he would ask his manager ALL the time do you know Lisa Marie Presely because he had the biggest crush on her. He would always say no but I will get into it. Michael explained his pain and a slight jealousy when he saw her on a magazine cover with her new husband. After that marriage started to end, Michael then was able to easier re-connect hisself and then started talking to her. The
begining of a frisky friendship to a rosy relationship.
99) Jermaine said in his book,You are not alone:Michael Jackson, that he believed that Joepsh strictness came from being humiliated by a teacher at a young age and his 7 year old sisters death when he was 11. That was the last furneal he pleaded he would ever go to until July 2009.
100)Michael and his brothers did a skit where he and his brothers imatated the famous Life ceral commercial.
101)Michael died on June 25,2009 at 2:26pm(Californian time).
102)Michael was always afraid that he would come over as a nussiance.'
103) When he was a child his favourite books included Rip Van Winkle and The Old Man and the Sea and Jungle Book.
104)Michael's favorite cartoon character was Peter Pan.
105)Michael owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem, South
Carolina on My Mind.
106)Michael's shoe size was a 9 and a half.
107)Michael wears a 32 hanes size.
108)Michael's double album HIStory is the biggest selling double album ever released in the U.S.A.
109)Michael's Blood on the Dance Floor is the biggest selling re-mix album of all
time.
110)Michael helped plan neighbor Gregory Peck's funeral.
111)Michael's elephant ,Gypsy, was a gift from Elizabeth Taylor and in return he gave her a portrait of herself.It was really big it took up pretty much an entire Neverland like wall.
112)The address to the Jacksons family home in Gary,IN is 2300 Jackson st, no the street was not
named after them. It was a huge conicedence.
113)Michael's nickname for Jermaine was Erms.
114)In a 1997 trip to India,Michael said that he was in a place full of gods and goddess that he felt like he was home.
115)Also in that India trip,the hotel suite he was in he signed all the furniture in the hotel room. From the mirror to the couch and recliners. He said to the manager of the hotel to auction off all the furniture and give the money to charities.
116)Michael was suppossed to be at the top of the world trade center on September 11th 2001 but overslept because of the 30th anniversary party he did the previous night. When he woke up the damage was already done. Marlon was on a plane that left early in the morning,but it returned back to Mannhattan.The Jacksons took a bus state by state to California to get out of New York as fast as possible.
117)Michael had plans to do This is it as a tour then do his last solo tour that would take him to about the end of 2013 and then he was doing to do a tour with his brothers as the last tour he would ever do because his mother,Katherine,had said,"I am 80 Michael,I want to see you and your brothers tour again before I leave this earth." Michael responded of course. This tour was suppossed to take him to the end of 2014 and maybe early 2015.After that at 55,he would retire from the music buisness. He wantd to show the world the directing ideas that he had been hiding since the 80s'. He would want to be doing movies and animation projects. That was his plan.So you see,Michael had said that after This is it would be the final curtain call.But he wanted to suprise the world with other ideas he had. That was Michael always wanted to be one step ahead of the game. You can read more on this and Michael plans after his death in his brother Jermaine's book dedicated to Michael called"You are not alone:Through a brother's eyes".
118)Michael endorsed the book full of rare pictures and articles about him that was named the Michael Jackson Opus.
119)Katherine Jackson said in an interview for a TV documetary dedicated to Michael,that when she first heard the Jackson 5's first mega hit,I want you back, that she didn't like it. She was sort of comparing it to the songs that had been writte and got popular around that time. That other songs had that soul rythmn to it,but "I want you Back" did not have that soul sound to it and that is what made it unique. It started years to come of that sound that beat of music.
120)Lots of people said that Michael was really shy and quiet and wasn't the top of the talkers when it came to socializing with other people that weren't his brothers.
121)Michael met Quincy Jones in the movie for the Wiz and asked him would he produce his next solo album that would be called Off the Wall.That friendship was spreaded to Michael's next future albums Thriller and BAD.
122)Thriller almost didn't come out, because the first set Michael was dissatiisfied.He took a break.Made some changes and through the mixes and eventually decieded to let it out.
123)Michael loved vintage wine,but it made him reguritate.He liked the taste of it but it made him sick to the stomach.Classic Michael right?
124)Michael wanted the part of Wille Wonka in the 2005 remake of Charilie in the Choclate Factory.But because of the 2003-5 child molestation charges,his attorneies and others dealing with the case said it would be better if he stay out of the limelight because of what he was dealing with.The part ended up going to Johnny Depp.
125)When Michael was little, when he was in the middle of taking in everything, he said that when he was wacthing stars like James Brown or Jackie Wilson that he would get angry at the camera man because they would close up on the star when he was dancing instead of a full body image where you can see his feet as he dances.
126)When Michael was a teen, he was so horrified with the way he looked that he washed his face in the dark. He was very shy adn sensitive when it came to his appearance in that time. He felt he was ugly. But he was not. He couldn't be any far from being ugly. It is sad to think that he went through that hard time.
127)Michael had more awards then any other artist in musical history.
128)The BAD tour was the biggest concert series of all time and Dangerous and HIStory follow behind it.
129)Thriller is the #1 best selling album of all time
130)BAD is the #2 best selling album of all time.'
131)On BAD Michael released a amazing 9 singles, Thriller he released 7 and Dangerous he did nine singles as well.
132)The music video for "Thriller"was the world's most viewed music video until Justin Bieber broke the record with the music video for his song "Baby".
133)Michael also has more Gunniess World Records than any other performer.
134)The Making of Thriller, a docmentary that showed behind the scenes footage of Michael getting the make-up done for the werewolf and zombie characters, rehersals for the choregraphy and much more. The Making of Thriller became the world's best selling behind the scenes video.
135)Michael's Superbowl performance was the most watched thing in American history were he performed his three songs Jam, Black or White, Billie Jean and Heal the World.
136)Michael's HIStory song, You are not alone, became the first song to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
137)Michael holds the record currently for the only artist in the history of music so far to have gotten 8 Grammys' in one night. There have been other artist who got more than 8 nominations but didn't actually win all the awards. There have also been other artist that got 6 or 7 awards but he still holds the record for 8.
138)He had the most #1 hits of the 80s'.
139) At the end of the 80s' decade he was nicknamed "Man of the 80s". Elvis was the 50s', the Beatles were the 60s', vary of aritst were the 70s' and Michael was the 80s'.
140) He also got the biggest endorsement deal ever at 15,000,000.
141)He had a billion dollar entertainment contract.
142)Michael wanted to be the only artist to do the Superbowl halftime show twice. Before he died, from 2009-2014 he had a five year plan mapped out. He was going to do the This Is It tour that would take him into 2010. He was going to do the Superbowl performance that the Black Eyed Peas did instead, he was going to do another tour with his brothers that would take him into late 2011.Then he was going to trick the world, make them think that This Is It was going to be the end. He was going to do a worldwide tour and that would be it. He would show the world the directing ideas he had and the aritistic side of himself. After that final tour that would take him into early 2014, he was going to give up singing and dancing and staying behind the scenes. To bad he never will get to do it.
143)The name King of Pop came from the fans. Fans just started calling him that and it eventually went global. But Oprah hereself personally thinks it all started in the late 80s' when he was accepting an award, Elizabeth Taylor called him the King of Pop, Rock and Soul and it all kind of started from there.
144)The reason Michael had the amusement park and the zoo and so forth is because every three weeks he had sick children come to the ranch. In his theather, he and Maculay Culkin designed it, he put beds built into the walls for children who are bed written can still enjoy the magic shows and the mini performance he does for them and cartoons he puts on for them. He really cares about children. It is because when you haven't had a childhood, or anything you never done that lots of other people have done before, you tend to wonder what it is like. So Michael goes through his childhood as an adult. All the people who have had childhood or could go to the park whenever they wanted or could go to the carinival with a friend without be bombarded have had a childhood. Michael never could do anything like that. He did enjoy what he did, but he never had a childhood. Also all the tabliods and the false allegations, those were adults doing that to him. He saw a source of innocence in the child mind. That's why he loves them. He can be himself without being called weird or bizzare. This is getting to be a source of oppinon, but that is why I like Michael. He had that uniqueness about him and that was a bonus to the man with one shiny glove on on our pants pulled ot high, moving backwards on two feet, making the best muisc and dancing ever seen,the wonderful artistry work, movie ideas, acting ideas and much more. That wrapped in one body is pretty unique. That is what I love about Michael. You may think well, my job is the source of my life, or what I do is my personal definition. If you were to define Michael Joesph Jackson somewhere in that definition will involve child. That's Michael. That's why he should be loved he shouldn't be hated. It's sad to think that he had his childhood stolen from him and everyone else was playing and having fun. Imagine you in his shoes at that time and tell me it is still bizzare. That should be a fact but because of the mean people in this world it is not.
145)He was really funny. He was a prankster too. So watch your every angle if something seems supsious if you were around Michael Jackson.
146)He could beatbox really good. He would practically make his voice all the instrumets in the song.
147) He got really embarrassed and shy in interviews and giving public apperances or speeches. If you watch some of the acceptance speeches you see how shy he gets just when the audience won't stop screaming his name he apperantly had a hard time controling that. In 2005, he held a little celeberation were he held an event called MJ 45th anniversary. He wasn't
performing or anything he was just going to play his music, he would be greeted by a cake, have dinner with the audience and give speeches about his future plans. During his speech, he says something like "I have the imagination------." He was cut off by a fan finishing his sentence for him saying "THE IMAGINATION OF ME AND YOU MIKE!!!" and the whole audience started laughing he was so embarrassed his face was drained of the color red. It was funny and that just goes to show you there is more to the person that we see performing Billie Jean, Thriller or the way you make me feel.
148)Michael described his talent as" an instrument of nature."
149)Michael Jackson's This is It concert rehearsal footage that turned into a movie in late 2010 was the biggest concert footage of all time for a few months unitil a few months later when in Feburary Justin Bieber released his concert footage movie type documentary called Never Say Never and that became the biggest concert footage in history.
150)Michael often was seen with childhood star Emmanuel Lewis especially at award shows such as the AMA's and the Grammys'.
151)The tribute album to remember that 25 years ago Michael's BAD album was released. On September 18,2012 the BAD 25 similar to the album Michael released in 2008 for the 25 year anniversary of Thriller.
152)Michael is the godfather of Bee Gee's singer, Barry Gibs, son named Michael Gibbs.
153) His first kiss was from Brooke Shields. a