In Pictures of Michael Jackson Memorial ceremony

n Los Angeles at the Staples Center arena July 7 ceremony of farewell to Michael Jackson (Michael Jackson), died June 25 at the age of 50 years. At Staples Center stadium were about 18 thousand people, among them celebrities of show business, movies and sports. Millions of viewers around the world watched live broadcast of the concert.

In the farewell ceremony was attended by legendary musical performers Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie, actress Brooke Shields, basketball players Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant and others. Music of the mourning ceremony opened Mariah Carey, performed a song of Michael Jackson’s “I’ll Be There”

In Los Angeles, just a king of pop Michael Jackson.

Prior to the start of the funeral ceremony at the Staples Center relatives and friends of Michael Jackson in a narrow range just late in the chapel at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Some Michael Jackson fans have been able to get an official funeral, winning free tickets that were distributed by random sampling of abandoned requests for a special site Stadium Staples Center. Applications for tickets have left 1.6 million people, and an invitation to the ceremony for two persons received 8,750 people.

Others remember and say good-bye to Michael Jackson on the streets of Los Angeles and other cities in the world.

Janet Jackson and daughter Paris Michael Jackson.

Heal the World. In the final ceremony of mourning family members and guests of the ceremony Jackson performed along one of the most famous songs the late singer – “Heal the World”.

Among those present at the scene were three children and a singer – the daughter Paris Michael Katherine and his sons Prince Michael and Prince Michael II .

11-year-old daughter of singer Paris through tears, said that “The Pope was the best dad in the world”

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