Micheal Jackson

By mcmadam

  • Michael Jackson was born

    Michael Jackson was the eighth out of ten kids. He lived in a house in Gary, Indiana. He had 3 sisters and 5 five brothers and the sixth brother died shortly after his birth.
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  • Jackson joined the Jackson 5 (estimated date)

    The Jackson Five were a band formed with five brothers. Their names are:Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson. They were a very popular music group in the 1970's

  • Hit song ABC releases by the Jackson Five

    ABC was a a hit song in the 1970's. The song beat the Beetles off the Billboard chart and became number 1. It's one of the songs that the Jackson Five will be remembered for.

  • Jackson's hit song "Thriller" gets released.

    This music video helped tranform the music at the time. It was the most watched music video ever and 4 billion people viewed it. It was so dramatic it was like a 13 minute play.

  • Michael Jackson writes the song "Billie Jean"

    Billy Jean is a song that was written by Micheal Jackson in January of 1983. It was a song off his super hit album Thriller. The effects in the Billy Jean music video made it really get noticed.

  • Michael Jackson is at the White House in the USA (estimated date)

    Jackson was a guest of Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984. It was important because he gave his song Beat It to the governemt to use in anti-drunk driving ads aimed for teenagers. He wore his usual one glitter glove.

  • Jackson begins to alter his appearance (estimated date)

    Between the dates of 1987-2001, Jackson has many plastic surgeries to change his face. At first he changed his nose and skin colour. Then he started changing his entire face. At one point he was so ashamed of his looks that he started to wear masks so that people would stop teasing him. It didn't work.

  • Jackson writes and releases "The Way You Make Me Feel."

    This was a song about a woman that Jackson sang on all of his world tours. He sang it at the Grammy awards in 1988. He also planned to sing it in some updcoming concerts in 2009/10, but he died before this.

  • The Jackson brothers stop singing in a group.

    In 1990 the Jackson Five broke up because one of the members married the record label's daughter. He wanted to stay faithful to the company instead of moving to another one as the father and manager wanted. The group reunited occasionally onstage after the break-up.

  • Michael Jackson Dies

    Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose given by his doctor. This was a drug that would try to get rid of his worries. There was a big memorial service broadcasted world-wide.