His death comes just two days after the anniversary of his son Michael Jackson's death nine years ago. The Jackson family patriarch played a large role in the careers of The Jackson 5 as well as Michael and Janet Jackson.
Five sons - Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael - became the Jackson 5, joined at times by younger brother Randy, who also pursued a solo career. Three daughters - LaToya, Rebbie, and, most famously, Janet - all fashioned their own pop careers under Jackson's management, with varying levels of recognition. Jackson was the architect of his children's early successes, but some of them would later say he drove them with a zeal that bordered on abuse, with Michael and others alleging bullying, physical abuse and punishing work schedules. Michael Jackson has consistently accused his father of beating him as a child.
JOE later admitted that he had whipped Michael, but denied it could be categorised as a beating. "I whipped him with a switch and a belt. I never beat him. You beat someone with a stick," he told the BBC's Louis Theroux in 2003. The interview made headlines after Jackson said in response to a question about Michael, "We don't believe in gays. I can't stand them."
Joe Jackson was born in 1928 in Fountain Hill, Arkansas and was the eldest of five children. He described his own father, a university professor, as a domineering and strict presence. Jackson nurtured ambitions of being a boxer and later played guitar with a blues band, The Falcons, but failed to win a recording deal. In 1949 he married Katherine Scruse, a former classmate from Washington High School in East Chicago, Indiana, who raised their children while Jackson worked at a local steel mill.
Joe reportedly carried on a decades long extra-marital affair with Cheryl Terrell, a secretary 20 years his junior. The pair had a daughter, his 11th child, Joh'Vonnie, who is now 43, but Jackson remained married to Katherine all along.
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
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Endy Edeson
@Viceroy: If it were to be in Nigeria or Africa, they will refer the disease as OGBANJE or SINS OF GREAT GRANDFATERS. We have to grow up in this continent
Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
I think the issue of the father beating up his son should not be a subject at this point... maybe such was the motivation needed for Mike to develop his talents. We are also aware the father was Mike's manager for sometime.. I had visited their village in Gary, Indiana, during my school days in the US. Death is a call that everybody must answer. May his soul rest in peace...