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According to radio 5!
and bbc, and sky, sadly he had a heart attack.
No way 😯
yep looks like it. I'm watching BBC news right now.
Crikey
Bloody Hell...
A sad end to a life he never really got to live. Celebrity from the very earliest age and never really able to be himself. I think he may not even have really known who he was himself.
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Never understood but never forgotten.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8119951.stm
Michael Jackson 'in LA hospital'
Pop star Michael Jackson has been rushed to hospital in Los Angeles with suspected cardiac arrest.
Pop star Michael Jackson has been rushed to hospital in Los Angeles with suspected cardiac arrest.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the 50-year-old singer was not breathing when paramedics arrived at his home.
The paramedics performed CPR and took him to the UCLA medical centre, the newspaper says. Officials would not confirm if the CPR was successful.
The star was due to begin a series of comeback concerts with an appearance at London's O2 arena on 13 July.
He has a history of health problems and has not completed a concert tour in 12 years.
Michael Jackson's home is off Sunset Boulevard in Bel Air.
Blimey.. 😯
that will piss of the ticket touts
heart attack but not confirmed dead yet?
I blame the boogie.
I hate to be insensitive BUT... popbitch was saying a couple of weeks ago that he was looking for any excuse not to play those 50 gigs at the O2...
You'd be raging if you had tickets 😮
Okay, it ain't looking to promising from the BBC etc but is it actually confirmed he's dead?
Can't see any reports confirming he's dead.
He's dead in Canada, so presumably he is everywhere else....
And Farah Fawcett's died too. WTF is going on in the world?!
Still uncofirmed at the moment-Sky News.
I saw him at the Milton Keynes Bowlin 1988 on his Bad Tour with Kim Wilde supporting.
Officials would not confirm if the CPR was successful = dead
According to The Sun:
MICHAEL JACKSON has reportedly died after suffering a heart attack.
According to US website TMZ the King Of Pop was loaded into an ambulance just after 2pm, LA time, after paramedics were seen performing CPR on the singer.
He allegedly suffered the cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles.
The 50-year-old singer was due to start the first of 50 dates at the O2 arena in London on July 13.
on skynews now
Fox News,Jackson Hospitalized?
Blimey, he's younger than me! Can't believe this, such a talent. So sad.
And Farah Fawcett's died too. WTF is going on in the world?!
Errr, people dying happens all the time.
cinnamon_girl - Member
Blimey, he's younger than me!
I don't believe you! You don't look a day over 30! 😉
....and Noel Edmonds still lives! Oh the inhumanity of it all!!!!
Aye - same age as me c_g. Makes one feel mortal.
D'ya think there will be like a national outpouring of grief in the style of Diana or a more muted celebration by the parents of all the children he allegedly touched up ? 😯
tankslapper - too right! Theres just no justice
the grief athletes are all doing their laces up as we type, no doubt...
his fans were unbearable enough when he was alive.
D'ya think there will be like a national outpouring of grief in the style of Diana
Worse, much worse, it's gonna be a long hot summer of Billy Jean, Thriller etc.
there will be a lot of children safer now he has gone
good riddance
someone is slagging him off on bbc for exactly the reason that Nicko75 has suggested 😯
Awaiting Gordon Brown's speach reassuring the British Public that he will do his best to ensure such a tragedy does not influence our war against terror.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
I don't believe you! You don't look a day over 30!
Cap'n, us girlies (that's Aleigh, annabannana and myself) are still waiting on a Wiltshire adventurette, led by your goodself 😀
Surrounded by cherubs - he'll love it.
(And C_G- rubbish: you're never that old)
druidh - MemberAye - same age as me c_g. Makes one feel mortal.
What with a nose grafted from your arse? 😆
An excuse to dig out the vinyl?
Hey you lot - wait til you're middle-aged 😉
Actually could this be another excuse for a bike build?
" (CNN) -- Entertainer Michael Jackson was taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, sources briefed on the situation told CNN.
A Los Angeles fire official told CNN that paramedics arrived at Michael Jackson's home after a 911 call.
Paramedics revived Jackson before taking him to the hospital."
one less paedo, no big loss
Thats terrible!
I thought that it was widely known that he had health problems though! Remember the fuss in the papers last time he had a stroke...
CG, let's see about a date then, eh?
Any chance you or any of the other Wiltshire lasses are in Salisbury on Saturday? Am likely to be in the Cloisters watching the rugby. A beer may be in order....!
cinnamon_girl - MemberAn excuse to dig out the vinyl?
Hey you lot - wait til you're middle-aged
Actually could this be another excuse for a bike build?
Aren't you confusing him with [i]Bob[/i] Jackson?
Moses - you're too kind 😀
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Cap'n - I'm a busy lady - I shall be on my way to the Quantocks 😀 I need more notice cos I'm trying to attend every STW Forum Ride this year 8)
druid - I get very confused 😉
BBC say he is in a Coma.
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CFH & CG get a room you sad ****s.
KINGTUT - Auntie C_G's here if you need to talk ...
He's dead been confirmed
Good riddance.
CNN live says coma
What a sad day.
He was amazing pop artist and performer, and also an amazing guitarist. The main riff and solo in Beat It is electric guitar at its best
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Despite being a plastic faced kiddy fiddler, Off the Wall is one of my favourite albums of all time
Michael Jackson 'dies' in hospital after suffering heart attack
spineless Times. Whats with the 'quotes'.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6579622.ece
mleh. never really liked his music. freakish tendancies. Not top of my list for a babysitter for Stoner Jr. More useful humans keel over every day with little fanfare.
Despite being a plastic faced kiddy fiddler, Off the Wall is one of my favourite albums of all time
All kinds of people like Off the Wall 😉
Who? I'm actually quite sad about Sky Saxon dying and Mr Bigshot PotatoHead has to make a huge Schrödinger's cat style fuss
KINGTUT -Auntie C_G's here if you need to talk ...
Oh don't get me wrong I couldn't give a toss about Michael Jackson, however you and CFH are making me cringe, though to be fair CFH has that effect on me most of the time.
Ho Ho Ho @ sc-xc 😀
Stoner - a tad harsh? He had a genuine talent, I do remember his early years and he was a star in the making. Unique. Don't know what happened to him in later years but I just find it all very sad.
Sorry ... but there's too many talents that have departed this world.
The main riff and solo in Beat It is electric guitar at its best
yep.
and that was eddie van halen's fault, nothing to do with MJ...
He was my favourite artist as a youngster, but he hardly equiped himself with glory later. Maybe he was a victim of his upbringing but doesn't excuse the child accusations and baby dangling. LA Times is saying he is dead.
davidtaylforth - Member
What a sad day.
also an amazing guitarist. The main riff and solo in Beat It is electric guitar at its best
that was eddie van halen. Which is why it was great.
it's win win as far as I'm concerned. Love his music, but think he lost his marbles years back and was a paedo. So there will be loads of his music on the tv and radio, and kids will be safer.
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Dr Bubbles was to late to save the day
KINGTUT - past your bedtime mate.
Anyone else remember the very first showing of the Thriller video? December 1983!!!
harsh?
perhaps, but only in the sense that he had a lack of moral guidance.
The rest of it falls firmly at his feet.
As for the next few days of tortuous hand-wringing and group-therapy outpourings from the people who seem to think he had some value over and above someone less inclined to be a freak...well, you shall find me in the shed hiding from the media...
CNN said it was cardiac arrest rather than heart attack. Which means they have to get a defibilator to the heart within minutes as they have "gotta be starting something" quickly.
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Yep, me!!!!!!!!!!!
I was only 18!!! 8)
Stoner - many people suffer from a lack of moral guidance. Is it not possibly a 20th/21st century affliction?
Do u reckon there will be this level of news coverage and emotion when Gary Glitter pops it?
Never proven in a court of law that he was a paedophile. If people started making unproven allegations of that nature about yourself I think that you might get a bit annoyed.
He made some great pop music.