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Perfectionist. off stage a legend with a sense of humor. >> making big money decisions and he would lean over to me and say who is your favorite three stooges and i would say what? oh yeah, i dont like that? i like mo. >> beneath the surface, concerns from the very moment the concert tour was announced. jackson was pushing himself to the brink. >> 50 dates at 50 years old? thats a lot of dates. i kept saying i hope he gets a physical trainer. someone to really work him out and make sure he is he...

As dawn broke at 100 north carolwood drive on june 25th, 200 2009, still awake and apparently restless, he wasnt taking a no. >> he didnt like to be told no on what to do. that is a huge issue. anyone who knew michael and worked for michael will tell you this is a man who lived his life on his own terms. >> police investigators say dr. murray finally relented. at 10:40 a.m., he gave him the drug through an iv drip and jackson finally went to sleep. according to the search warrant affidavit, at 1...

Is it" was on stage that last night. >> he looked back at me, after we did one number and he looked at me as if to say, "yeah, im michael jackson and i got this." you know, he looked really good and i teased some of the dancers when i see them because mj was 50 years old and theyre like half his age and he still was wearing them out. >> reporter: on stage, always a perfectionist. off stage, a legend with a sense of humor. >> hes making big-money decisions, then woe lean over to me and just say s...

Thats not an exaggeration. woe have. >> he was plagued with insomnia for years. he was just plagued with this horrible, inability to go to sleep. and he would rely upon doctors to provide him with medication so that he could sleep. >> according to police, jacksons final hours, beyond these windows, involved a cocktail of drugs, allegedly administered by dr. murray. based on the affidavit, dr. murrays efforts to get jackson to sleep began with a 10 milligram tablet of valium around 1:00 a.m., tha...

>> according to biographer, randy taraborrelli, jackson was first introduced to prescription drugs in 1984. jacksons scalp was severely burned during a filming of this pepsi commercial. >> i was at the hospital that night, and i remember the doctors saying that they were trying to give him pain medication back then and he would not take it, and that ultimately he did take some because the pain was so great, but that it was a big issue. >> when do you think the drug use started? >> i believe that...

Stretch. you have to have a full attitude. you have a half one. do the full one. >> reporter: michael payne was jacksons long-time choreographer. >> we were on a journey with michael that was going to return him to the stage that he loved so much. i know we were eight days away from leaving for london. >> reporter: the stage is where michael was most at ease. on stage, there was no one better. ♪ >> reporter: since age 5, he had electrified audiences around the world with hit songs like "i want...

The anesthetic propofol. murray told investigators jackson repeatedly asked for the drug that final night but insisted he repeatedly denied the singer. murray claims he was actually trying to wean jackson off of propofol at the time fearing he had formed an addiction. ed chernoff is murrays attorney. >> he doesnt have any specialized training in addiction recovery, thats true. who else is addicted to a drug like propofol? theres no protocol for how to wean someone off a drug like that. >> the th...

>> following the verdict in 2005, jackson spent the next four years focused on his children. six months before his death, michael jackson met nurse practitioner sherilyn lee. she came to jacksons house to treat one of his kids for a cold. one day he asked her to stay over and watch his sleeping patterns. >> this was 10:30, 11:00 at night. i said call me so i can kind of monitor and see whats going on. so he slept for about 3 1/2 hours, then he jumped up. looked at me with his eyes wide open. i s...

That there were certain things that seemed to happen every day. around 8:00, 9:00 in the morning. conrad murray would come downstairs for breakfast, often holding a canister of oxygen. on this morning, the morning of jacksons death, he didnt. it was much later, and he called for the children. >> according to the search warrant affidavit, murray asked jacksons eldest son, prince michael, to come upstairs, and then continued cpr. >> and if youre putting the pieces together from a prosecution stand...

Enough to describe the man who eventually became the king of pop. >> when my brother died, the world cried. >> he meant so much to me. he influenced like my whole world. >> michael, thank you for the music you gave us all. the world will miss you. we love you. >> then, nearly three weeks after the singers death, a hollywood memorial service that rivaled royalty, seen by millions around the world. ♪ we are going to see the king >> the andre crouch choir sang as jacksons brothers carried his cas...