MJ's Explosive Pepsi Shoot Video -- 25 Years Later

Video from the 1984 Pepsi shoot where Michael Jackson's hair caught fire ... finally released.



The video, obtained by US Magazine, shows exactly what went down when a pyrotechnic mishap ended in Michael's scalp being scorched.

After the accident, Jackson became addicted to painkillers.


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826. If you don't like Michael Jackson, why comment on any of the blogs, videos, articles, pics....at all? Michael Jackson haters need to stop searching the internet for anything related to Michael Jackson...it just shows that you secretly liked him anyway!!!
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GOOD GRIEF.

Posted at 2:21AM on Jul 20th 2009 by LA

827. I was never real big big fan , but now not only a fan .. as a human being.. I feel so sorry that there was nobody there really there for him. He was there for so many.......he was one of a kind.
plz let him now rest in peace.

Posted at 11:34AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Patricia

828. RIP MJ................................I will never forget you. MJ went through hell on Earth. This was the beginning of alot of pain for him. He broke his back on stage which is very very painful, he has broken his leg, twisted his ankle, suffered with lupus which is a horrible disease, and also had the vitiligo(now they have proven that he did really have it), I mean I am not making excusses but that is some horrible stuff. May he Rest now.

Posted at 5:06PM on Jul 20th 2009 by Trey

829. 814. WHITE, STRAIGHT, REPUBLICAN WOMAN.
(HOW ELSE CAN I PISS YOU OFF TODAY?)

Posted at 2:33PM on Jul 17th 2009 by REPUBLICAN

You seriously believe that republicans are not on welfare?! Idiot!!! lol! Republicans only believe in handouts and preferential treatment for themselves! Corporate welfare, greed, offshore accounts, and highest number of married white men secretly having affairs with other men, while parading in country clubs in their pink lily pulitzer shorts, lmao! Continue to live in denial, lady! If I could show you all the pictures of foot tappers who live in wealthy suburbs with their families, but meet me in hotel bathrooms for lunch, you would die.

BTW, I live in a conservative part of St Louis, and most of the men I frequent seek me out while they carry on their FACADE OF A STRAIGHT LIFE in the exclusive country clubs, sad for you, you will never know it.

Kind of like when Rush Limbaugh attacked the minorities for being associated with drugs, when he was an addict all along, lmao.

Stick with your fantasy, lady.

Republicans are the BIGGEST WELFARE CROOKS OUT THERE!

Posted at 4:18PM on Jul 21st 2009 by homo here

830. In spite of his pain, MJ had dignity, and relentlessly continued to bring the world happiness through powerful and uplifting music.
May he rest in peace.

Posted at 12:25AM on Jul 22nd 2009 by lili

831. If Michael Jackson had not agreed to do the Victory Tour with his brothers this probably would not have happened to him. Why after 25 years is this video just now surfacing?

Posted at 2:53PM on Jul 29th 2009 by YLB

832. Because they are trying to show how severe Michael was burned and how this incident probably fueled his addiction to prescription pain killers. He had to have skin grafts and reconstructive surgery to repair his scalp. This is why he wore wigs, his hair never grew back, obiviously. Also, this was the start of the plastic surgery, beside the fact that he also fracured his nose at one point.

Posted at 8:52AM on Jul 29th 2009 by Terry

833. Saying that if Michael hadn't done the Victory tour this would not have happened is a moot point.
It was an accident. You can't live in a bubble all your life fearing something bad is going to happen.
You could walk out your front door and get hit by a car, does that mean you shouldn't have left the house?

Posted at 8:56AM on Jul 29th 2009 by Terry

834. That looked bad from the back never seen that before

Posted at 1:30AM on Aug 1st 2009 by Delbert Trail

835. how in the hell could they not have seen that

Posted at 7:53PM on Aug 19th 2009 by raven

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