1.legend   

  2.earned 

  3.           famous

  4.       Moonwalk

5.  music charts 

  6.     played  

    7.record    

8. best selling

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Michael Jackson (born 1958) is truly a music (1)    legend                         . He became a superstar at the age of eleven as a member of his family band The Jackson 5. His solo career (2)earned                           him the title “King of Pop”. His studio albums have all become classics. Jackson is equally (3)             famous            for his high energy and complicated dance techniques such as the (4)               Moonwalk        . He died in 2009 at the age of 50.

Jackson dominated the (5)  music charts                 throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. His distinctive vocal style, rhythm and fashion were perfect for the new music video age. MTV enthusiastically (6)                played            his videos to the world. His ‘Thriller’ video had all the excitement of a major movie release. Jackson became a true icon of pop culture and influenced dozens of today’s top stars.

His awards and (7)          record             are proof of the phenomenal success he achieved. He won World Music Award’s Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium, and was the American Music Award’s Artist of the Century. ‘Thriller’ remains the (8)         best selling          album of all time. ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine named him the “Most popular artist in the history of show business”.