The breaking news
The archive preserves Radio 1’s coverage after Michael Jackson collapsed at his Los Angeles home and died aged 50.
Kissy Sell Out interrupted the normal programme to say Jackson had suffered a suspected heart attack, had been taken to UCLA Medical Center and had died.
US reporter Jonathan Blake explained that paramedics had tried to resuscitate Jackson before taking him to hospital.
Early reports referred to Jackson arriving in a deep coma and to members of his family saying he was not doing well.
Jermaine Jackson confirms the death
Newsbeat carried the statement from Jackson’s brother Jermaine.
He said Michael had died on Thursday 25 June 2009 at 2.26pm local time after doctors attempted unsuccessfully to resuscitate him for more than an hour.
The bulletins repeated the confirmed facts while warning that many additional claims circulating online remained unverified.
Tributes and Glastonbury
Radio 1 presenters played Jackson’s music throughout the morning.
At Glastonbury, news of the death spread through megaphones, food stalls and crowds. Festival-goers danced to his records while presenters and artists reacted with disbelief.
Listeners sent messages describing where they had been when they heard and which Jackson songs mattered most to them.
Looking back at his career
A longer Newsbeat special traced Jackson’s career from the Jackson 5 through Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad and his global stadium tours.
It also covered the intense scrutiny of his appearance, private life, financial problems and child-abuse allegations.
The programme balanced those controversies with the scale of his musical influence and the expectation surrounding his planned London comeback concerts.
The June archive ends with a major Radio 1 news event rather than a normal Scott Mills programme.
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