NEW YORK — Starting about 6 p.m., a crowd began gathering under the blinking white lights of the Apollo Theater marquee on 125th Street in New York's Harlem neighborhood. The marquee read: "In Memory of Michael Jackson, A True Apollo Legend, 1958-2009"

By 9 p.m., it had grown to more than 200 people, most of them dancing and singing along to a boom box that played Jackson hits such as I'll Be There, Billie Jean and Off the Wall. T-shirts bearing vintage photos of the star were selling for $20.

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