LOS ANGELES - And then there were two.
Michael Jackson passed away at 3:21 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the California-Los Angeles Hospital. He is the second member of his family to die this decade. A lesser-known brother of his was killed by a girlfriend at the Jacksons' birthplace of Gary, IN in 2006.
Mr. Jackson still holds the record for most albums sold worldwide and has the second-best selling album of all time, 1982's Thriller.
He was arrested in 2003, the same day that it was announced that Prince, one of the now-surviving Big Two from the 1980s, got his call to Cleveland. He was acquitted of all the charges against him a few years later.
Jackson began his career in the mid-1960s as part of the Jackson Five. In 1975, Jackson began his solo career.
He was inducted twice to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, most recently in 2001.
Jackson would have been 51 on August 29.
