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.
NEW YORK (MediaWeek) - The King of Pop is more popular than the leader of the free world, at least on Facebook. During Tuesday's memorial service for fallen music icon Michael Jackson.
With toxicology tests still being conducted, Michael Jackson's cause of death is listed as "deferred" on his official death certificate, which was issued Tuesday, the same day as his private funeral and public memorial.
Today's memorial to the life and work of Michael Jackson had no shortage of heartrending moments. Many of them came during the speeches: Brooke Shields, Smokey Robinson.
While entertainment luminaries and thousands of fans gathered today at Los Angeles' Staples Center to remember Michael Jackson, millions more converged online to watch the memorial service live and post comments on Facebook and Twitter. On Twitter.
"I just don't believe that Michael would want me to share my grief with millions of others," one of Michael Jackson's closest friends said on Twitter this week. "I cannot be part of the public whoopla." But today.
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