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  • Massive demand for Michael Jackson memorial tickets

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.

    July 4, 2009, 1:32 pm

  • Massive demand for Jackson memorial tickets

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway.

    July 4, 2009, 6:26 pm

  • R&B singer Maxwell ends seven-year break

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - A vanishing act has become practically de rigueur for R&B musicians of a certain caliber.

    July 4, 2009, 11:55 am

  • Cuba's Fidel Castro honored with a reggaeton song

    HAVANA (Reuters) - Since he swept into power 50 years ago, Cuba's Fidel Castro has been honored in poems, movies and paintings and now in reggaeton, a form of music widely popular among Cuban youth but not island leaders.

    July 4, 2009, 11:34 am

  • Stone Temple Pilots accentuate old faves

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For a reunited band bent on having a future, Stone Temple Pilots spent most of its House of Blues show Wednesday visiting the past -- the distant past.

    July 4, 2009, 10:38 am

  • How Jackson's "Thriller" changed the music business

    LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In early 1984, when Epic Records executives presented their slate of upcoming releases at the convention in Hawaii of parent company CBS Records, they couldn't resist playing up the success they were experiencing.

    July 4, 2009, 10:05 am

  • Michael Jackson's music had impact around the globe

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet.

    July 4, 2009, 9:43 am

  • Los Angeles officials brace for Jackson memorial

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles city officials are planning a massive security operation for Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, and on Friday urged fans who do not win a ticket in a random drawing to stay away from the basketball arena where the singer will be memorialized.

    July 4, 2009, 9:09 am

  • Michael Jackson's videos set a new standard

    LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - A seldom-seen 1989 music video for Michael Jackson's song "Liberian Girl " is a good indication of the pop star's clout.

    July 4, 2009, 9:06 am

  • Michael Jackson, Pepsi made marketing history

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Essentially two kinds of people existed in the '80s.

    July 4, 2009, 8:57 am

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