(2009년 7월에 퍼 놓은 기사임)
The King of Pop Has Passed
An estimated 1.6
million people entered an online lottery to win one of the the 17,500 available
tickets to Michael Jackson's July 7 memorial service at the Staples Center in
Los Angeles, making Jackson's farewell one of the largest celebrity funerals in
history. Tickets sold for upwards of $10,000 on eBay and Craigslist; all three
major television networks announced that they would air the event live. Stevie
Wonder, Mariah Carey and Usher are set to perform. The city of Los Angeles,
worried about crowd control, will close the streets around the arena during the
90-minute service, and suggests that fans without tickets just stay home. Yet
despite their best efforts, the city is bracing for a crush of more than
100,000.
루돌프 발렌티노
Before Elvis, Judy Garland and
Michael Jackson, there was Rudolph Valentino, an Italian actor and international
sex symbol who became the world's first bona fide movie star with blockbuster
silent films like The Sheik. So when the 31-year-old died unexpectedly of
a ruptured ulcer on Aug. 23, 1926, mass hysteria ensued; several fans, overcome
with grief, killed themselves upon hearing the news. His New York City memorial
service attracted nearly 100,000 mourners, who stretched for nearly 11 blocks as
riot police struggled to keep the crowds from blocking the funeral procession.
Decades later, it was revealed that the man who had organized Valentino's
memorial, Frank E. Campbell, had paid New Yorkers to exaggerate their grief to
draw publicity to his now-famous funeral parlor to the stars.
베이브 루스
The Sultan of Swat
Some 75,000 fans trekked
to the "House That Ruth Built" to view the body of the legendary slugger two
days after he succumbed to throat cancer on Aug. 16, 1948. Police even agreed to
keep Yankee Stadium open until midnight to accommodate as many people as
possible, while another 75,000 more gathered in and around Manhattan's St.
Patrick's Cathedral to attend his funeral service. Ruth's pallbearers included
Yankee outfielder Joe DiMaggio, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey and New
York Governor Thomas Dewey. The rain that day matched the mood; as one New York
Times columnist put it: "Even the skies wept for the
Babe."
엘비스 프레슬리
The King of Rock 'n' Roll was just 42 when he suffered a fatal heart attack on a bathroom floor at his Graceland mansion on Aug. 16, 1977 — the night before he was supposed to kick off a 12-city comeback tour. It took less than two days for 25,000 fans to surround his Memphis home, where they endured 90-degree heat and entrepreneurs hawking $5 "commemorative" T-shirts to pay their respects alongside mourners like James Brown, Ann-Margaret and George Hamilton. Though the actual funeral was closed to the public, the entire world would eventually get a glimpse of Presley's gray, swollen face after one of his cousins secretly snapped a photo of the open casket and sold it to The National Enquirer for $18,000. That image, plastered across the tabloid's cover, sold more than 6.5 million copies, making it one of the most lucrative — albeit lurid — photos in history. Even Caroline Kennedy managed to profit from Presley's untimely passing; though she was admitted to the funeral as a friend of the family, she later sold her account of the memorial to Rolling Stone..
When 47-year-old Judy Garland was found dead of a drug overdose in her London home on June 22, 1969, fans were shocked. The starlet's body was displayed to the public in a glass-enclosed coffin, and over 20,000 came to pay their respects. The funeral, held in New York City, was closed to the press and the public. The guest list read like a who's-who of Hollywood celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney and James Mason, who delivered the eulogy.
움 쿨톰
The Nightingale of the Nile
Egyptian singer
Umm Kulthum had a career that spanned half a century and a signature song, "Inte
Omri" ("You are my life"), that ran for 57 minutes. Kulthum was so beloved that
when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1975 at age 76, millions of wailing
mourners flooded the streets to vent their grief. Heads of state sent letters of
condolences to her family, airlines and trains scheduled extra trips to
accommodate the flood of fans, and an estimated one million people followed her
funeral procession through the streets of Cairo. Kulthum remained one of the
top-selling artists in the Arab world long after her death.
존 레논
He Gave Peace a Chance
John Lennon didn't
have a funeral. When the former Beatle was shot and killed outside his New York
City apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980, his wife, Yoko ono, decided against an
organized memorial service. Instead, she asked people around the world to "pray
for John's soul" at a designated time. At 2 p.m. EST on Dec. 14, 1980, fans
gathered in public squares from Melbourne, Australia to Liverpool, England and
observed 10 minutes of silence in a global outpouring of goodwill. In New York,
over 100,000 people assembled on Central Park's grassy slopes and turned the
memorial into a daylong affair. Vendors sold Lennon merchandise and musicians
played their favorite Beatles tunes. But at 2 o'clock, the entire park went
silent. The city had assigned 300 policemen to the event, but the gathering was
entirely peaceful and went off without a hitch.
다이애나 왕세자비
A Royal Farewell
The waves of grief
unleashed by the death of Princess Diana needed an appropriate outlet, and a
full day of mourning was planned around the Sept. 6, 1997, service at
Westminster Abbey in London. The day began with a four-mile funeral cortege
leaving from Kensington Palace. Her coffin passed by more than one million
people, who had lined up along the route to pay final respects to the Princess
of Wales. Nearly 2,000 guests were present at the service, while an estimated
2.5 billion watched on television. Elton John performed a re-written version of
"Candle in the Wind, and for the first time in history the Union Jack was flown
at half-mast above Buckingham Palace.
크리스토프 월레스
Hypnotized
Christopher Wallace, the
Brooklyn-born rapper known simply as "Biggie," was gunned down during a drive-by
shooting in L.A. on March 9, 1997, just three years after releasing his first
album, the eerily titled Ready to Die. The still-unsolved murder, like
the shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur, shocked the hip-hop community. Sean
"P. Diddy" Combs, Queen Latifah, Flava Flav, Mary J. Blige, Run-DMC, and Busta
Rhymes were among the rap stars who turned out for his memorial. Thousands of
fans lined the sidewalk of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the artist's childhood
neighborhood, to catch a glimpse of his funeral procession. But the gloomy
atmosphere turned violent when police scuffled with a handful of people who had
climbed onto parked cars. Seven people were arrested for disorderly conduct,
including a reporter for the New York Times.
제임스 브라운
Even in death, James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business. The soulful singer's passing on Christmas Day, 2006 prompted not one but three memorial services. The first included a public viewing of Brown's body at Harlem's Apollo Theater, where he made his professional debut in 1956; the last was held in his hometown of Augusta, Ga., where more than 9,000 fans danced to live music supplied by his band, the Soul Generals. Pop icon Michael Jackson nearly stole the show when he made a surprise appearance at the last stop on Brown's so-called "Farewell Tour." Following a eulogy delivered by the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jackson reportedly bent down to kiss Brown's forehead and proclaimed him "my greatest inspiration."
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