Michael Jackson would have been 60 on 29 August 2018. Dubbed the “King of Pop”, he was one of the most popular entertainers in the world, and was the best-selling music artist during the year of his death.
A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life
-Michael Jackson
Jackson’s contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
“A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life,” the singer would say.
Michael Jackson is best known for his music, but he possibly touched just as many people through his love and compassion for those less fortunate.
Quora quotes Michael Jackson’s Armenian driver Gokor as saying:
“One day I was driving Michael to an important meeting. Mike as usual was looking out of the window examining people outside. Suddenly the red light went for the cars and they stopped and so did I. There was a little girl with her mum on the pavement, she was playing with her ball while her mum was busy with talking on phone. The ball fell on the motorway and the green light for the cars turned on, a car was nearly to run the baby down; Mike, following all that, suddenly ran out of the car to save the baby. I couldn’t manage to get what was going on and at that moment a car nearly ran Michael down and he almost died. Thank God I managed to get him back and the baby’s mum pulled her away from the car. When Michael got back into the car he and I were trembling. Mike was bitterly crying of the thought that the car could have run the baby down. At that moment Michael didn’t care for his own life, he was ready to save the girl and die himself.”
“Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.”
– Michael Jackson
In 2014 Mike Seropian, owner of the MLS Limousine, shared unpublished photos of Jackson. It is unclear if those photos are part of an endorsement for the company which Michael used for over 15 years.
The Lady in the photos is Gohar Harutyunyan, Miss Armenia 1998.
