<p>In Tokyo, the ‘Thriller’ singer’s followers spent the night among his possessions at a Michael Jackson exhibition, at New York’s famed Apollo theatre they danced to his music, and along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, they laid flowers by his star. <br /><br />Jackson’s sister Janet and brother Jermaine were among family members visiting a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn cemetery near Los Angeles, where the singer’s body was laid to rest, and his mother, matriarch Katherine, appeared at the unveiling of a monument outside the family’s first home in Gary, Indiana. “I’m sure my son would be very pleased and very honoured,” Katherine Jackson said. “This last year has been a very hard time for us.”<br />About 500 people gathered outside the home where Jackson and his brothers — members of the Jackson 5 singing group — got their start in the 1960s on their way to hits like ‘ABC’. The stone monument featured a picture of him dancing with the words “Never Can Say Goodbye” chiselled beneath it.</p>
<p>In Tokyo, the ‘Thriller’ singer’s followers spent the night among his possessions at a Michael Jackson exhibition, at New York’s famed Apollo theatre they danced to his music, and along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, they laid flowers by his star. <br /><br />Jackson’s sister Janet and brother Jermaine were among family members visiting a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn cemetery near Los Angeles, where the singer’s body was laid to rest, and his mother, matriarch Katherine, appeared at the unveiling of a monument outside the family’s first home in Gary, Indiana. “I’m sure my son would be very pleased and very honoured,” Katherine Jackson said. “This last year has been a very hard time for us.”<br />About 500 people gathered outside the home where Jackson and his brothers — members of the Jackson 5 singing group — got their start in the 1960s on their way to hits like ‘ABC’. The stone monument featured a picture of him dancing with the words “Never Can Say Goodbye” chiselled beneath it.</p>