Dont know what it was about 25th June 2009 but 2 very famous people sadly died. First there was Farrah Fawcett. Not that well-known to me but lots of people liked her. She was one of the original Charlie’s Angels. She died after suffering for a while from cancer.
Later on in the day – Thursday night UK time – the news came out about Michael Jackson passing away. It all happened about 1215pm (LA time) when ambulance was called as Michael Jackson was not breathing. There was some confusing with some online web sites/news networks saying he was in a coma, some saying he died. At about 230pm (LA time) it was announced that he was official dead 
I was trying to get the latest news, watching the BBC News, checking online news sites and also Twitter. Facebook also had lots of status updates all about Michael Jackson. Twitter actually suffered with it being “over capacity” and either being really slow or giving errors.
It was actually the web site TMZ that announced it first before anyone else. There are all sorts of stories in the news and I am sure you have read about it. It seems that he was given a shot of Demerol – which is a powerful painkiller – and he “overdosed” and had a cardiac arrest after suffering from a heart attack. Some stories are coming out that he may have been given daily injections on Demerol!
There has already been one autopsy but there will be a second one to confirm what happened.
For all the latest I recommend checking out the BBC News web site or the web site TMZ.
No matter what happened to Michael Jackson in his life he made some AMAZING songs. Billie Jean, Thriller, Beat It, Smooth Criminal, Bad,….. thats just a few. Looking at online music charts his albums are selling very well. Looking at Livehits, Man in the Mirror will be No.2 with Smooth Criminal currently 11. A load of other songs are in the top 100. Amazon.com album chart has about 16 MJ albums in the top 20. (Its similar for Amazon UK).
Also people started playing his songs as soon as his death was announced with last.fm showing a huge increase in number of songs by Michael Jackson played.
