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Tuesday 07 July 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 8:46 am

FAREWELL TO THE KING OF POP

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Michael Jackson’s memorial service in Los Angeles was attended by 17,500 people yesterday. Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey both played, but former wife Debbie Rowe was not in attendance.  Around 1.6m people had applied for 800,000 tickets to watch the service, and international viewing figures were expected to hit 1bn.

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