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...Jackson in his "Billie Jean" video even entered the store and flipped through the albums. Tower's clerks said they had been fielding calls all morning asking about Jackson's albums in stock, and expected more as the news spread. Masayuki Ikeya, 30, says he first saw and heard Michael Jackson when his parents showed him a videotape of Moonwalker. "I was really young and when I saw him, I knew he wasn't Japanese," he says. "But by the way he danced, I didn't think he was human - he was unbelievable...
...followed by 2.5 million copies sold of "Thriller", which sold an estimated 105 million copies worldwide. The star did a scooter commercial for Suzuki Motors in 1982 - the year "Thriller" came out - in which he says "Love is my message" and winks. (See TIME's 1984 cover on Michael Jackson...
...Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...
...TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...special report on Michael Jackson's life and death...