LOS ANGELES () - Singer Michael Jackson sour 50 on Friday, a shadow of the superstar once known as the "King of Pop" whose records thrilled millions earlier his flaky personal life eclipsed his musical blaze.
Unlike Madonna's 50th birthday bash and set up of some other world enlistment earlier this month, the singer world Health Organization wishes he was Peter Pan appears to cause no peculiar celebrations planned and a much-touted musical comeback has so far come to nothing.
A semi-recluse since his harrowing 2005 trial and acquittal on child sex abuse, Jackson has been living out of the spotlight for the past few months.
In a telephony interview with ABC tv set program "Good Morning America," Jackson aforesaid he will "just ingest a little cake with my children and take in some cartoons," and he added that he feels "very judicious and sage, but at the like time selfsame young."
Recent pictures of Jackson in Las Vegas showed him appareled in pajamas and slippers, and matchless had him sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a surgical mask.
Long-time Jackson family friend and lawyer Brian Oxman told the singer sometimes used the wheelchair to catch around unobserved. "It is not an indication of any health problems. It is an effort to be unseen," he aforementioned.
Oxman added that for the 50th birthday, "no-one is planning anything special. He is exactly being quiet these days."
Billboard senior music analyst Geoff Mayfield adage nothing unusual in Jackson's low-key natal day. "I don't think our celebrities ar real hot on how old they are getting. Why would a kill singer depict attention to the fact they ar getting older?," Mayfield told .�
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