Dr. Conrad Murray Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter

Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney Ed Chernoff gives the defense's closing arguments during the final stage of Conrad Murray's defense in his involuntary manslaughter trial.

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Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, has been found guilty by a jury of seven men and five women in Los Angeles. Murray pleaded not guilty to the charges and faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.

Over the course of a six-week trial, prosecutors argued that Murray was reckless in his treatment of Jackson, and that he abandoned the pop star while he was under the effects of the anesthetic propofol on the day he died in 2009. Murray's defense team had countered that Jackson was addicted to the sedative and self-administered a fatal dose when the doctor left his bedroom.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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