This column is accounting by Jon Pareles, Ben Sisario and Brian Stelter in Fresh York and Brooks Barnes in Los Angeles.

Michael Jackson, the singer, songwriter and ballerina who becoming the appellation “King of Pop” in a career that accomplished aberrant peaks of sales and attention, died Thursday, a Los Angeles burghal official said. He was 50.

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Appraisal | 12:01 a.m. Which Michael Jackson will be remembered? The incomparable entertainer, the able and apprenticed account man who wielded rhythm, melody, arrangement and angel to actualize and advance the acknowledged anthology of all time, “Thriller”? Or the camp amount he became afterwards he bootless in his declared appetite to outsell “Thriller,” and afterwards the aflame fantasy gave way to abridged revelations, absinthian rejoinders and the continued accessible blackout he was appointed to breach abutting month? Jon Pareles assesses Mr. Jackson’s career.

Obituary | 12 a.m. For his legions of fans, he was the Peter Pan of pop music: the little boy who banned to abound up. But on the border of addition attempted comeback, he is aback gone, this time for good, Brooks Barnes reports.

Video Chase | 11:03 p.m. In the affection for a few Michael Jackson music videos? BET is now broadcasting a video marathon.

The cable approach will additionally pay accolade to Mr. Jackson during a alive copy of “106 & Park” Friday at 6 p.m., and during the “BET Awards” on Sunday.

Jackson and Elvis | 10:47 p.m. Many bodies will be spending some time with Michael Jackson’s discography in the canicule advanced — and some for the aboriginal time. Celine Dion, the recording artist, said on CNN: “My son is 8 years old, and… he’s alert to this song, cast new, from him. Like, I’m rediscovering Michael Jackson again.”

Speaking to CNN’s Larry King, Ms. Dion said, “It feels like back Kennedy died, back Elvis Presley died.”

His Home Sweet Home | 10:29 p.m. Our aide Susan Saulny letters from the Jackson’s hometown of Gary Ind.:

In Gary, Indiana, hundreds of bodies descended aloft the broad board abode were Mr. Jackson spent his ancient years. There were tears, loud wails, and quiet prayers as old neighbors abutting easily with bodies who had apprenticed in from Chicago and added adjacent towns to pay their respects.