NEW YORK: Fans around the world on Saturday marked what would have been the 51st birthday of late pop icon Michael Jackson as thousands braved rain in New York for a party organized by filmmaker Spike Lee.Lee arranged what he described as a "joyous, festive and celebratory" event in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, with DJ Spinna setting the beat.
As the party got underway there were fears that the rains would keep the crowds away, but as the skies cleared police estimated there were between 7,000 and 10,000 people.
Videos of some of Jackson's greatest hits were showing on a big-screen television. Some fans hit the dance floor and got down, Jackson-style.
Others waited and took turns writing down their memories of the star on a special memorial wall.
"May your spirit, light, love and music forever bless us as we dance the nights away," a fan named Kayine wrote inside a heart.
The celebration came as weeks of feverish speculation about the cause of Jackson's sudden death in Los Angeles on June 25 ended Friday when the county coroner's office ruled his demise was a homicide.
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