Parallels in lives, deaths of Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley

The death hadn't even been confirmed, the body not yet cold, before the comparisons were being made.

The passing of Michael Jackson reignited the occasional debate about the King of Pop and Elvis Presley, "The King" of rock 'n' roll.

The articles analyzing the similarities between Jackson and Presley have been ubiquitous and inevitable. Even Billboard magazine editorial director Bill Werde declared, "The world just lost the biggest pop star in history, no matter how you cut it."

But is there really a case to be made that Michael Jackson's and Presley's places in the pantheon of popular culture were as similar as some suggest?

Each sold hundreds of millions of records and reached unimaginable levels of fame and wealth before experiencing rapid personal and professional descents (and, of course, there's the matter of Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, who was married briefly to Michael Jackson in the mid-'90s).



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