{"id":208,"date":"2009-06-29T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2009\/06\/29\/the-king-of-pop-who-rocked-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:21:27","slug":"the-king-of-pop-who-rocked-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/the-king-of-pop-who-rocked-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018King of Pop\u2019 who rocked the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/en-mj-life-v.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"172\" height=\"108\" \/><\/pre>\n<pre>Born on August 29, 1958, Jackson made his show business debut with four of<br \/>his older brothers in the Jackson Five, and went on to lead the stage clan<br \/>with a piping soprano and dazzling dance moves. By 1969, the group had<br \/>signed a contract with Motown Records and churned out several hits<br \/>including ABC and I'll Be There.<br \/><\/pre>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<pre><br \/>Jackson released his first solo album, Got To Be There, with the legendary<br \/>music label in 1972. He switched to Epic in 1976, releasing his first<br \/>album under that label in 1979, Off The Wall, which was produced by Quincy<br \/>Jones.<br \/><br \/>Jackson's distinctly lighter skin in Bad in 1987 drew alot of media<br \/>attention, leading to rumours of plastic surgery. The album sold more than<br \/>30 million copies and helped the \u2018King of Pop\u2019 start his solo tours full<br \/>of lighting and laser effects. In 1988, he released the Moonwalker film \u2013<br \/>a mix of of live footage of his live concerts and series of fantasy pieces<br \/>with Jackson as the main character.<br \/><br \/>In 1991, Dangerous sold 21 million copies, with hits including Black or<br \/>White and Remember the Time. In June 1995, Jackson released the double<br \/>album HIStory, Past, Present and Future to negative reviews and weak<br \/>sales, despite Sony Music's 40-million-dollar investment. Jackson's next<br \/>album, Invincible, in 2001also flopped. He was scheduled to launch a mega<br \/>comeback tour in 2009, with the first of four London concerts set for July<br \/>13. The kickoff concert was pushed back from July 8 because of the \"sheer<br \/>magnitude\" of the show, promoters and producers AEG Live said.<\/pre>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on August 29, 1958, Jackson made his show business debut with four ofhis older&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}