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On their first (and last) tour of Italy, Europe, The Beatles play at the Palazzo dello Sport, Genoa.When I'll Be There hits No1 in the USA, The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, becomes the first group ever to score four consecutive Billboard No1s with its first four singles - I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save and I'll Be There.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson spend the first of two days recording a tv special, entitled Goin' Back to Indiana.
Got To Be There, the first solo hit single by Michael Jackson reaches No1 in the Canadian Pop Singles chart.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the second of two nights at International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Sports Arena, San Diego, California.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Jackson 5 Show, the second pre-recorded tv special starring The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, is boradcast in the USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Stadhalle Offenbach, Frankfurt, Germany.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, enters the UK Top 50 Singles Chart where it will peak at No43 during a three-week stay.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Convention Center, Fresno, California.
When Elvis Presley takes his five year old daughter Lisa Marie to see the Jackson 5 play at the Sahara in Las Vegas, Nevada, she meets Michael Jackson for the first time.
The Randy Jackson, the brother of Michael Jackson, is injured when his Mercedes-Benz crashes at an intersection near the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California. Randy is extricated from the wreckage using the Jaws of Life, but despite fears that one of his legs might need to be amputated, he will make a good recovery.
State Of Independence by Donna Summer (written by Vangelis and Jon Anderson) enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No14. The track features an all-star backing choir which includes Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Christopher Cross, Quincy Jones, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Lionel Richie and Dionne Warwick.
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It is announced that with Billie Jean and Thriller, Michael Jackson
has become the first artist to simultaneously occupy the No1
positions in the Billboard US Rock Albums and Singles charts plus
the Billboard US R&B Albums and Singles charts.
The ARIA singles and albums polls replaces the long-running Countdown chart in Australia, Oceania, collating sales data from record stores to determine chart positions. Bonnie Tyler scores the first ARIA No1 in the singles chart with Total Eclipse Of The Heart, while Michael Jackson dominates the album tally with Thriller.P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) by Michael Jackson - the sixth single to be extracted from the album Thriller - enters the Billboard chart in the USA at No75.
A $5m endorsement contract is signed between Michael Jackson, The Jacksons and Pepsi-Cola, involving sponsorship of the band's Victory tour and two TV commercials.
At the Grammy Awards Ceremony in Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, Michael Jackson scoops a remarkable eight Grammies.
Janet Jackson announces that she has married James DeBarge in Michigan Falls, Illinois, USA. The announcement comes as a surprise to her family.On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of three nights at The Summit, Houston, Texas.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of three nights at the Metropolitan Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It is announced that, with five US No1 singles taken from the same album, Bad, Michael Jackson has broken yet another industry record.
Janet Jackson scores her sixth of fifteen Billboard No1s on the Hot R'n'B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart with Escapade.
On her Rhythm Nation 1810 tour, Janet Jackson plays the second of two nights at The Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, USA.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 World Tour, Janet Jackson plays the first of two nights at McNichols Sprts Arena, Denver, Colorado, USA.On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
On his It is reported that a farmer in India, Asia, has successfully been preventing wild pigs from attacking his crops by playing Michael Jackson songs at high volume on a ghetto blaster.
Latoya Jackson plays a gig at Chernobyl, Ukraine, site of Russia's horrific nuclear accident.A 30 foot high steel and fibreglass statue of Michael Jackson sails under London's famous Tower Bridge to promote his new HIStory album. Eight similar statues are launched in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Prague, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam.
A Michael Jackson-endorsed energy drink, Mystery, is launched in Holland, Europe, as a promotional tie-in for the HIStory World Tour.On the HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of two nights at the Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to an audience of 40,000.
Michael Jackson launches an attack on the music industry, accusing several music execs of racism and describing Sony boss Tommy Mottola as "very, very, very devilish."
What More Can I Give, the World Trade Center benefit single by Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Nsync, Destiny's Child and others, is given its first airing, on WKTU-FM radio, in New York City.
Judge Rodney Melville, the Santa Monica judge in Michael Jackson's child molestation case, orders 82 pages of documents containing "sensitive information" to be sealed indefinitely. He also refuses to lift a gagging order, ruling that it would violate the privacy of all parties involved.
Michael Jackson and his children arrive in Bahrain, Asia, for a holiday following the star's recent acquittal on child molestation charges.It is reported by Nielsen SoundScan that 800,000 solo Michael Jackson albums have been sold in the past week. This is almost double the previous week, with his music now occupying all ten places on the Top Catalog Albums chart.
The American Film Institute recognizes Michael Jackson's passing as a "moment of significance" saying, "Michael Jackson's sudden death in June at age 50 was notable for the worldwide outpouring of grief and the unprecedented global eulogy of his posthumous concert rehearsal movie This Is It.".
It is announced that EMI is to be bought in part by Vivendi/Universal and in part by Sony/ATV for a total of $4.1bn. EMI's recorded music division is to be sold to Vivendi/Universal Music Group for $1.9bn while EMI Publishing Group will be acquired by Sony/ATV - a joint venture between Sony Corp. and the Michael Jackson estate - for $2.2bn.SkyArts announces that, following criticism from the singer's family, it is dropping a proposed programme dealing with Michael Jackson's alleged cross country motor trip with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. Two days earlier, Paris Jackson had tweeted, "I'm so incredibly offended by it, as I'm sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit..."1965 |
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