Joe Jackson, the father of late singer Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 89.
Joe Jackson was well known as the patriarch of the talented and successful Jackson family. He moulded five of his sons – Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael – into the Jackson 5 singing group, which topped the charts in the late 1960s and 1970s, and later helped shape the solo careers of both Michael and his daughter Janet.
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But he was also a highly controversial figure. Described by his children as a controlling and demanding father, he was said to have put his sons under intense pressure as the Jackson 5 became successful.
Michael, who died in June 2009, said in a 1988 book that when he made a mistake, his father beat him “sometimes with a switch, sometimes with a belt”, and described their relationship as “turbulent”.
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