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Signing an MJ poster outside Staples Center

Where are the fans? Outside the police barricades, waiting to be let in.

A fan sings in front of a homemade memorial outside Staples Center

The first ticket-holders are allowed through the barricades

Fans waiting to enter Staples Center for the memorial service

A strong police presence

No memorial service would be complete without unlicensed T-shirt vendors

A Michael Jackson impersonator

We're all 'The Man in the Mirror'

Some signs didn't fare well amidst the crowds

The Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses reporters

Fans flash their wristbands on their way inside

Another masked Michael impersonator

Tributes left by fans outside the Jackson family compound in Encino, Calif.

Joe Jackson, Michael's father, seen leaving the Jackson family compound en route to the funeral and memorial service

The casket leaves a family memorial service at Forest Lawn en route to the public memorial service at Staples

Michael Jackson's hearse seen leaving Forest Lawn Memorial Park en route to Staples Center

Flowers in the back of Michael Jackson's hearse

Boxing promoter Don King en route to the memorial service

Brooke Shields and Magic Johnson arrive for the memorial service

Usher and Magic Johnson at the memorial service

Chris Brown in the audience inside Staples

The funeral motorcade arrives at Staples Center

Preparing the stage inside Staples

Lou Ferrigno, Jackson's friend and personal trainer

Fans react to the arrival of Michael Jackson's funeral procession outside Staples Center

The Jackson family arrives at the public memorial service at Staples

Fans outside the public memorial service

Pallbearers carry Michael Jackson's into Staples Center

A lucky fan inside Staples shows MJ some love

Michael's casket

The Andrae Crouch Singers open the public memorial service

Pastor Lucious Smith delivers opening remarks

Members of the Jackson family, wearing sequined white gloves in honor of Michael

Mariah Carey and Trey Lorenz

Smokey Robinson, one of Jackson's fellow Motown recording artists

Motown Records founder and producer Berry Gordy

Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson

Jennifer Hudson

Rev. Al Sharpton

Jermaine Jackson sings Charlie Chaplin's 'Smile,' one of Michael's favorite songs

Bernice A. King and Martin Luther King III

Actor and longtime MJ friend Corey Feldman

Actor Mickey Rooney

Jermaine Jackson embraces another member of the Jackson family

Janet Jackson with Michael's three children

Rest in peace, Michael Jackson

Rest in peace, Michael Jackson

Remembering the King of Pop, in pictures

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