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"17:30: Welcome to our live coverage of Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s memorial concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin has been loaded into a black hearse which is being driven to the venue after an hour-long private ceremony for his family at the Forest Lawn Cemetery. 17:38: There are rumours that Michael&amp;#039;s brother Jermaine will sing &amp;#039;Smile&amp;#039; at the memorial concert, a song composed by Charlie Chaplin and covered by Michael in 1995. A heart drawn in aeroplane vapour trails is visible above the Staples Center. 17:45: Jackson fans are gathered around his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame with balloons, soft toys and other items to celebrate his life. 17:49: TV presenter Larry King, singer Dionne Warwick and civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson Sr have arrived at the Staples Center. 17:52: Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin has arrived at the venue as preparations continue for his last farewell. 17:55: Fans continue to arrive at the Staples Center in anticipation of the memorial show developed by Kenny Ortega and Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich. 17:59: It&amp;#039;s been reported that the Los Angeles Police Department have spoken to five doctors regarding Jackson&amp;#039;s health and alleged heavy drug use prior to his death. But for today, the focus will be on his life and music. 18.02: Jackson&amp;#039;s personal trainer Lou Ferrigno tells Sky News that the family&amp;#039;s arrival at the venue will bring a lot of emotion. He says that the day should be a national holiday and that the late singer was a close friend. 18.05: Ferrigno says that Jackson wanted Diana Ross to look after his children if his mother couldn&amp;#039;t because she is a &amp;quot;sweet woman&amp;quot; who would bring up the kids as Michael would like. 18.13: Smokey Robinson reads a note to Michael Jackson from Diana Ross. &amp;quot;Michael wanted me to be there for his children, and I hope I will be if they ever need me&amp;quot;. She says that the event will bring closure. 18.15: He then reads a note from Nelson Mandela, who describes Michael as a &amp;quot;giant and legend in the music industry&amp;quot; and says that we will all be mourning with his family and friends today. 18.17: The fans wait in silence as a sign on the stage reads &amp;quot;In loving memory of Michael Jackson - King Of Pop, 1958-2009&amp;quot;. 18.23: The crowd applaud in the arena, as the family arrive and take their seats. 18.29: Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin is being prepared to be brought on stage, followed by his brothers. 18.34: Piano chords echo throughout the Staples Center as the memorial officially gets underway, and the Andrae Crouch Choir starts to sing. This is the same choir that sung on Jackson&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Man In The Mirror&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King&amp;quot;, they intone. &amp;quot;Hallelujah.&amp;quot; 18.35: Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin takes centre stage, surrounded and covered in flowers, as the crowd applaud. 18.39: Pastor Lucious Smith reads some words about the impact of Jackson, his friend, on the world. &amp;quot;First and foremost this man before us was our brother, our son, our father and our friend,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;As long as ewe remember our time with him the truth is he is never really gone.&amp;quot; 18.42: Mariah Carey opens the singing with &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ll Be There&amp;#039;. 18.44: The stage features a picture of Jackson in his younger days with his brothers as part of The Jackson 5. Mariah is joined by Trey Lorenz and the pair sing a few strains a capella before finishing over some piano chords. Mariah thanks Jesus. 18.46: Queen Latifa takes to the stage. She says that one of the first records she and her brothers ever bought was &amp;#039;Dancing Machine&amp;#039; and says that they tried to imitate The Jackson 5. She describes Michael as the biggest star on Earth who let African-Americans know that they could travel the world. 18.49: Queen Latifa reads a poem by Dr Maya Angelou about Michael&amp;#039;s death called &amp;#039;We Had Him&amp;#039;. Verses include: &amp;quot;No clocks can tell our time and no oceans can rush our tides&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the Moon&amp;quot;. 18.52: Lionel Richie now takes to the stage and sings &amp;#039;Jesus Is Love&amp;#039; passionately, backed by the choir and band. 18.56: Motown founder Berry Gordy pays his respects to Jackson from the stage. He praises the &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; Jackson 5 and Michael&amp;#039;s performance, &amp;quot;incredible knowingness&amp;quot; and special qualities. 18.58: Gordy says that Michael sang Smokey Robinson&amp;#039;s music better than Smokey. The crowd laughs, including Smokey. He says that Motown was about family and competition, before telling an anecdote about the Gordys and Jacksons playing baseball together. 19.01: Gordy says that Michael &amp;quot;made pop history&amp;quot; at the Motown 25th celebration in 1983 and hails his &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; Moonwalk during &amp;#039;Billie Jean&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Michael Jackson went into orbit and never came down. Though it ended way too soon, Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s life was beautiful.&amp;quot; He describes Jackson as the &amp;quot;undisputed King Of Pop&amp;quot;. 19.02: Gordy says that &amp;quot;The King Of Pop&amp;quot; is not a big enough label for Jackson, adding: &amp;quot;I think he was simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.&amp;quot; 19.05: A video montage of Jackson&amp;#039;s hits plays on screen to applause. 19.07: Stevie Wonder sits on stage at a piano and starts talking about his love for Michael. 19.09: Wonder says: &amp;quot;This is a moment that I wished that I didn&amp;#039;t live to see come. But as much that I can say that I mean it, I do know that God is good and I do know that as much as we may feel - and we do - that we need Michael here with us, God must have needed him far more.&amp;quot; 19.12: Wonder plays the piano and starts to sing. 19.16: LA Lakers&amp;#039; Kobe Bryant takes to the stage and describes Michael as a &amp;quot;true humanitarian&amp;quot; and notes that he had the world record for the most amount of money given to charities by a popstar. 19.18: Magic Johnson adds his words and tells an anecdote which ended up in Michael Jackson getting a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. 19.22: Recently bereaved Oscar-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson sings a gospel-tinged rendition of &amp;#039;Will You Be There&amp;#039;, again backed by the chorus, who are dancing in formation behind her. 19.25: Spoken words from the song by Jackson are played during the performance, while the lyrics are put up on the screen. 19.27: Former US presidential candidate Al Sharpton says some words about Jackson, a man who &amp;quot;never let the world turn him around from his dreams&amp;quot; and one who &amp;quot;refused to let people decide his boundaries&amp;quot;. 19.29: Sharpton decribed Jackson as a man who &amp;quot;broke down the colour curtain&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;brought whites and blacks and Latinos together&amp;quot;. He cites the success of Tiger Woods and others, and says that Michael made it possible for people to vote for a black man as president of the US. 19.32: &amp;quot;There was nothing strange about your dad,&amp;quot; Sharpton tells Jackson&amp;#039;s children. &amp;quot;It was strange what he had to deal with.&amp;quot; He gets possibly the biggest applause of the night so far. He thanks Michael Jackson for eradicating barriers and giving people hope. 19.34: John Mayer is the next to peform at the Staples Center, picking at and gently tapping his electric guitar unaccompanied. 19.36: The rest of the band come in, while Mayer plays the lead guitar, eyes closed and mouth pursed. The choir sings phrases from &amp;#039;Human Nature&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;King Of Pop&amp;quot; proclaims the backdrop. Jackson is hugged by the Jackson brothers. 19.38: Actress Brooke Shields steps up to the microphone. Brooke is visibly trying to hold back tears. &amp;quot;Michael was one of a kind,&amp;quot; she says. She notes that captions of photographs of the two together were always &amp;quot;an odd couple&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;an unlikely pair&amp;quot;, but that they had &amp;quot;a bond&amp;quot;. 19.41: I used to tease him, Brooke says: &amp;quot;I started when I was 11-months-old, you&amp;#039;re a slacker! You were what? 5?&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We never collaborated together, we never performed together or danced on the same stage, although he did try in vain one night, unsuccessfully, to teach me the Moonwalk... what we did do was laugh.&amp;quot; Brooke visibly wells up. 19.45: Brooke reads from The Little Prince. &amp;quot;Lamps must be protected, a gust of wind might blow them out.&amp;quot; 19.48: Brooke says that Michael&amp;#039;s favourite song was Chaplin&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Smile&amp;#039; from Modern Times, before breaking down. Jermaine steps up to the microphone and sings that same song with a sparse accompaniment and tears in his eyes. 19.53: Martin Luther King III, the son of the great civil rights leader, follows Jermaine and says that as his father proscribed, Michael Jackson was the best of what he was. 19.56: Bernice A King, Martin Luther King Jnr&amp;#039;s daughter, empathises with the Jackson family, as both have lost relatives before their time. &amp;quot;For all of us, it is apparent that like our parents, Michael&amp;#039;s work and life was inspired by God.&amp;quot; 19.58: Bernice says that Michael prayed on his knees every night for her mother in the last three months of her life when she was ill. &amp;quot;He was indeed a shining light, like our father Martin. And in remembrance of Michael, may we all be inspired to go and let our light shine. Rest in peace, our brother Michael.&amp;quot; 20.00: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee says that she has come on behalf of the House of Representatives as well as every man and woman. &amp;quot;We know the constitution, and we know the law, and we know that people are innocent until proven otherwise. That is what the constitution stands for.&amp;quot; 20.02: Lee tells the story of The Good Samaritan, and says that Michael Jackson was the Good Samaritan &amp;quot;who cared and loved for the world&amp;quot;. 20.06: Jackson is described as &amp;quot;a legend and musical icon&amp;quot; who will be &amp;quot;honoured for ever and ever and ever&amp;quot;. Lee then salutes his coffin. 20.10 Usher nears the end of the song and breaks down in tears. He takes off his sunglasses and glances at Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin before being embraced by the Jackson family. 20.12: Video footage shows Michael Jackson and his brothers singing &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;s Loving You&amp;#039; live on the Ed Sullivan show in 1962. 20.14: The song&amp;#039;s writer Smokey Robinson returns to the stage. &amp;quot;I wrote that song... I thought I sang it!&amp;quot; he laughs. &amp;quot;I wrote this song and a few years later here comes this kid, he&amp;#039;s ten-years-old... I heard it, I thought, &amp;#039;Now they have pulled a fast one on us, because this boy cannot possibly be ten-years-old!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; 20.16: He describes the tale of love lost and says &amp;quot;How could he possibly know these things? I went over to him because I wanted to see his birth certificate.&amp;quot; He praises Jackson&amp;#039;s feeling and soul. He describes Jackson as his little brother. 20.17: Smokey says that young people tell him that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;singing Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s song&amp;quot; at concerts. He says that Michael will live on forever. He says that one of his greatest blessings in life was getting to know the Jackson family. 20.18: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m glad that I lived in this era. I believe so much in God. I believe so much that this is not it. We have life after this is done. So my brother&amp;#039;s in a place now where he is most certainly going to live forever in the hereafter, so he&amp;#039;s going to live forever twice, because he&amp;#039;s going to live forever here because the world will never ever forget Michael Jackson.&amp;quot; 20.20: 12-year-old Britain&amp;#039;s Got Talent finalist Shaheen Jafargholi sings &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;s Loving You&amp;#039; confidently and assuredly.  20.22: Shaheen says: &amp;quot;I love Michael Jackson. I just want to thank him so much for blessing me and every single individual on earth with his music.&amp;quot; Concert organiser Kenny Ortega says that Michael wanted Shaheen to perform on the cancelled &amp;#039;This Is It&amp;#039; residency. 20.24: Ortega says that the planned shows were Jackson&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;triumphant return to the world&amp;quot; and his &amp;quot;greatest work&amp;quot;. He introduces a moment from the concert as &amp;quot;a living testament to his ability to be timely and timeless&amp;quot;. 20.25: The band starts to play and a number of artists sing lines from &amp;#039;We Are The World&amp;#039;. 20.30: Children join the musicians and the stage is filled as all sing &amp;#039;Heal The World&amp;#039; in front of an image of the earth. 20.32: Musicians, children, politicians, family, ex-record label bosses, friends. Everyone has their hands in the air and tears in their eyes as the crowd get to their feet for the finale of Jackson&amp;#039;s 1991 track. 20.34: Jermaine thanks everyone for coming to the memorial. Wearing Jackson&amp;#039;s sequinned glove, he says that he is lost for words. 20.37: Brother Marlon, also wearing a classic Jackson glove, says that part of him &amp;quot;will live forever within me and within all of us&amp;quot;. He tells a story about the time he spotted a made-up Michael buying stacks of CDs in a record store and surprised him by recognising him. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re my brother... and those shoes didn&amp;#039;t help!&amp;quot; 20.38 &amp;quot;How much pain and ridicule can one man take? Maybe now they&amp;#039;ll leave you alone,&amp;quot; he says. 20.40: Marlon continues: &amp;quot;You have finished your work here on earth and the lord has called for you to come.&amp;quot; He thanks him and asks him to give his late twin Brandon a hug and bursts into tears before he is embraced by his family. 20.41: Michael&amp;#039;s 11-year-old daughter Paris steps up and says through her tears: &amp;quot;Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much.&amp;quot; 20.44: Jackson&amp;#039;s coffin is slowly carried out of the Staples Center to its unknown final resting place. 20.46: Pastor Smith, closing the ceremony, says that Jackson &amp;quot;was often imitated, but never duplicated&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;He wanted to heal the world through his music, and in a small way he succeeded.&amp;quot; He finishes the memorial with a prayer. 20.48: &amp;quot;Even now the King Of Pop must bow his knee to the King Of Kings,&amp;quot; Pastor Smith continues. &amp;quot;Bless us and keep us by the love that you kept Michael.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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