The memorial service will begin at 10 AM (US Time) on Tuesday. Several celebrities including singers Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Lionel Ritchie are expected to perform. he lucky 8,750 fans to score a pair of tickets to Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, have no fear.
he biggest names in pop music are expected to take part in the memorial service, includingStevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Hudson and John Mayer. Civil rights leader Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, and basketball stars Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant are also expected to attend.
Today is Michael Jackson's public memorial service at the Staples Center in L.A. Here are some tribute clips from fans moved by his music, as well as from friends like Quincy Jones and Dolly Parton.
The stage is set for Michael Jackson's final act in what could be the biggest celebrity send-off of all time.uesday's public Michael Jackson Memorial, the Jackson family announced in a statement to Access Hollywood.
Michael Jackson's final performance, a June 23rd Staples Center rehearsal for his planned "This Is It" tour.
More than 1.6 million fans registered to try and obtain tickets to the event.Lionel Richie, "Britain's Got Talent" finalist Shaheen Jafargholi, Martin Luther King III, Bernice A. King, the Andrae Crouch Choir, the Reverend Al Sharpton and family friend Pastor Lucious Smith are also scheduled to participate at the memorial, according to the family's statement.Some of the biggest names in pop music are expected to take part in the memorial service, including Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Hudson and John Mayer. Around 17,500 fans have been given tickets to the late King of Pop's memorial, which will take place at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
One of the black box flight recorders from the Yemeni plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday has been located, a French official has said.
Efforts to retrieve the recorder will begin during the day, the official added, quoted by AFP news agency.
The plane came down in bad weather with 153 people on board. Only one survivor was found but rescue efforts continue.
There were 66 French nationals on board the plane, which was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa to the Comoros
A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros.30June 2009fhkc6b28sx
