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Stretch. you have to have a full attitude. you have a half one. do the full one. >> reporter: michael payne was jackson's 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 you back." and the world appeared ready to welcome him back. it had been 12 years since jackson's ...

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 murray's attorney. >> he doesn't have any specialized training in addiction recovery, that's true. who else is addicted to a drug like propofol? there's no protocol for how to wean someone off a drug like that. >> the theory that conrad murray was trying to break jackson of a propofol addiction in the last hours of...

>> 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 jackson's 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 what's going on. so he slept for about 3 1/2 hours, then he jumped up. looked at me with his eyes wide open. i said, michael, are you okay? he said yes, but i just want you to see, i can't sleep. >> michael req...

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 jackson's death, he didn't. it was much later, and he called for the children. >> according to the search warrant affidavit, murray asked jackson's eldest son, prince michael, to come upstairs, and then continued cpr. >> and if you're putting the pieces together from a prosecution standpoint, you could argue that conrad murray wanted witnesses to say they saw conrad murray trying ...

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 singer's 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 jackson's brothers carried his casket. >> the king of pop is not big enough for him. he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever...