June 27, 2018 – Joseph Jackson, patriarch of the world-changing Jackson family, dies at age 89
Today we recall our June 27, 2018 story on the passing of Joseph Jackson, who became perhaps the most important patriarch of 20th century music.
Joseph Jackson, the patriarch of the first family of popular music, The Jacksons, has died in a Las Vegas hospital after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 89.
Jackson launched the careers of five of his sons as The Jackson Five in the late 1960s, and later the careers of several of his daughters, including Janet Jackson. His son, Michael Jackson, who died almost exactly nine years ago, became one of the most important and acclaimed artists of his generation.
Jackson and his wife, Katherine, married in 1949, in Gary, Indiana, and bore children, Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Michael, Randy and Janet, between the years 1950 …