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Michael Jackson's body was airlifted from hospital to the coroner's office in downtown Los Angeles.
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TV stations here carried live coverage of the helicopter's journey.An autopsy will be carried out later today to establish the precise cause of his death.Paramedics had been called to the Beverly Hills mansion Michael Jackson hadbeen renting whilst he prepared for a series of fifty soldout shows in London nextmonth.
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The singer's brother Jermain told a news conference that Jackson was transferred to a nearby hospital where a team of doctors worked for more than an hour in avain attempt to revive him.
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Only a few hours earlier Michael Jackson had been rehearsing at a local sports stadium,but concerns about his fitness for the concert tour had already begun to circulate,amid reports that he was looking frail.
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For all the controversy that surrounded the latter part of his career several commentators here have likened his musical legacy to thatof Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley
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