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Longtime Friend Pete Bennett Bids Farewell to Michael Jackson, King of Pop (VIDEO)

Final installment in Tim King's interview on Michael Jackson with world's top rock promoter, Pete Bennett.

Michael Jackson during the 'Thriller' years.
Michael Jackson during the 'Thriller' years.

(MONTREAL) - In this final installment of Tim King's interview with Rock Promoter Pete Bennett, we learn about a Michael Jackson who, like Pete's longtime client John Lennon, who balled up with pressure over a non-stop busy life fraught with all kinds of issues and problems that ultra stars deal with.

Pete Bennett & Tim King 2008

Pete talks candidly about his longtime friend who probably had no plans to check out of this life early. In spite of his problems, Michael Jackson had an uncanny ability to bring people to the table and he worked with everyone from top musicians to the children of Africa to President Ronald Reagan himself, in order to make the world a better place. He also worked with LA gang members when creating the music video for Beat It. Pete says Michael Jackson simply wanted better for people, and he was generous in donating money to causes that make a difference. The King of Pop professed his love to his fans in ways that few performers do. He was a child star who was under major pressure from his family and much of that never subsided.

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More on Pete Bennett from Salem-News.com:
----------------------------------------------------- Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.
Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), the first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several other awards including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators.
You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com



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Daniel July 6, 2009 6:24 pm (Pacific time)

Thanks Tim a great ending to the series , one of the best i have seen . It was very insightful .

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