You should have been in the chat room just now... Absolutely disgusting stuff was being thrown around

As for your texts in 5 minutes? Google and several other sites crashed and connection speeds got twice as slow. Website availability lost 14% off the index and there were over 100,000 tweets an hour with the tag "Michael Jackson".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8120324.stm

Glastonbury will now honour MJ.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8120310.stm

And, even 12-14 hours later, the BBC "most watched/listened" section has 9 out of 10 MJ stories. The only non-MJ is the BBC channel itself.




A phenomenal global response!


EDIT: Further global response:

At around 11pm last night, BBC had site traffic of 48% above average.

All of the top 7 albums downloaded on iTunes this week are now MJ's

7 of the top 10 music videos downloaded this week are MJs.

Edited at 12:50 Fri 26/06/09 (BST)

i feel so deeply sorry for his family and his children, i loves paulas poem tho, RIP MJ

R.I.P.

Strange feeling to know that he has died after growing up listening to his songs in me mums car and then buying his records when I was a teenager.

What a brilliant talent he was, abit quirky but all great geniuses are/were.

Will be missed by millions.

R.I.P MJ

will be sorely missed

one word " LEGEND"

R.I.P

Just on sky news 501 watching his bro make a statement.

So sad

Thanks for those great words Paula, very nice indeed!

If we only could add a few appropriate dance moves to go along with that...

*does his jig*

R.I.P

Wrote some truly amazing songs.

His music will never die.

still waiting to hear that he's woken up

something isnt quite right........he was an awesome talent thats for sure but something isnt quite right about his demise...at 50 and a man that was fitter than a butchers dog????...forget his quirkiness and his private life.....love him or loathe him, it was very untimely
i hope there is nothing sinister
RIP MJ and thats from a rocker through and through, but appreciated your talent from 1979 to 1989
(as a solo artist was your best years)

He was fit

but he was working out 3 times a day to prepare for 50 gigs!

At his age it was always going to be a problem

plus the cocktail of drugs it could be a number of things.

Absolutely.

You can't dance the way he did and keep up that massive intensity on stage without being very fit. And even if you could, you wouldn't be able to constantly perform like that without *getting* fit pretty fast.

High level dancers are in general among the most overall fit category people of all. Michael was certainly no exception.

He wasn't that fit, look at all the drugs he was taken LOADS!

Yes was fit back in the day though.. RIP

He was addivted to painkillers and there was nothing to him to cope with the amount he was using.....allegedly

Yeh, He took 3 at once which supposedly caused the problem, As your not meant to take more than 1 at once..

and the bloke had no meat on his bones......he was skinny as a rake so that aint gonna help

Yehh, no muscles really - his body would have been really weak

R.I.P M.J, ill always love your songs, Especially THRILLER! which is on my mp4 <3 shame concert was in july but R.I.P