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Popularity In next August Michael Jackson could have become 51 years old.  He was very enthusiastic, full of energy and vital even in the last days of his youth and it is evident from the fact that he was preparing for his five concerts. He had also planned to perform from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010 in 50 concerts. One of the amazing facts is it that all the tickets of these 50 concerts had already been sold. It means that he could have earned fifty crore Ponds if he had performed in these concerts. These figures indicate that he had enough energy even in the last days of his youth with which he could stun his fans. It is the proven fact that all his concerts used to be surprising and problematic. His world tours always pulled record breaking crowds. From MTV to Bill Board all his albums remained on top for weeks. His album History remained on top for 80 consecutive weeks and 109 million copies of this album were sold over the entire world. All his single and group albums were praised and liked by the people.

Unique Style His unique style of presentation always impressed his fans and sometimes was also criticized. The video of one of his song was very interesting. In this video the communist flag was shown and also the march of the ‘Red Army’. Mao’s statue is pulled down in the video and Michael Jackson is shown going high and high in the sky in a military dress. Mao’s statue is brought down while Jackson’s statue takes its position. This song truly depicts the collective American point of view towards the communist China. But there is no doubt that he is king of pop. His song ‘the don’t care about us’ was filmed in the Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro in which we can see the streets and the poverty of the city suburbs. It also presents how the human rights are violated. He had to face a lot of criticism for the video of this song and it also coasted him his friendship with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. It was also said that this song depicts his anti-Semitic views. But Michael Jackson never shirked from his responsibilities for the civilized society and had performed in many charity shows to help the poor and war affected people. He organized charity shows to collect funds for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Here we can not ignore the fact that he used different dance styles. He had used so many dance styles in his shows that none of the other dancer could have ever used or using even today. Even Britney Spears and Beyonce Knowles walk on the same ground that Michael Jackson had made.

Bad Days It is the bitter truth that his childhood days were very ugly. He had to face violence and exploitation in the hands of his father. He also had fallen victim to bitter relations. During one of his interviews he had told that he is afraid of being kidnapped while sleeping. Child abuse cases affected his public image. During the trial of a case millions of his fans from thirty three countries had come to see him. It indicates that how much he was popular in the world. His relations with media were never at ease especially with the Tabloid newspaper. It is true that he underwent rhinoplasty to hide the aging effect. But it created some other problems for him He also underwent facelift surgery. Except it, to change his skin color he underwent Bleaching and nasal surgery. But these surgeries created more problems for him. Straight sunlight had also started to affect his skin. To maintain the physic of a dancer he used to do dieting. He had totally become a vegetarian but it affected his health adversely. Years long court cases had made him a mentally sick and physically weak person. He tried many times to settle these cases outside the court. In his autobiography ‘Moonwalk’ he had not accepted these charges. This amazing dancer had his own darks and lights but he will be remembered for his innovative dance forever.