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WORK TITLE: 83 Minutes
WORK NOTES: with Matt Richards
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BIRTHDATE: 8/4/1962
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CITY: London, England
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COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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http://us.macmillan.com/83minutes/mattrichards/9781250108920/ * http://wikibin.org/articles/mark-langthorne.html * https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-langthorne-13274244/ * http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/83-minutes-the-doctor-the-damage-and-the-shocking-death-of-michael-jackson-by-matt-richards-and-mark-10505688.html
RESEARCHER NOTES:
PERSONAL
Born August 4, 1962, in Northallerton, England; son of Alec and Sylvia Langthorne.
EDUCATION:Attended Harrogate Arts College.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Writer and business executive. Roland Mouret, London, England, CEO; LAB Entertainment, London, England, founder. Has worked in the music industry, in publishing, and as a club promoter.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Mark Langthorne is a British writer and business executive. He is the CEO of the London fashion label, Roland Mouret and the founder of a film and publishing company called LAB Entertainment. Previously, Langthorne worked in the music industry, in publishing, and as a club promoter.
Langthorne and Matt Richards have collaborated on books about the untimely deaths of celebrities. The first of these book is 83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson. In this volume, Richards and Langthorne focus on the details surrounding Jackson’s death during the summer of 2009. They discuss the injuries Jackson sustained throughout the years, which some have claimed led him to become addicted to painkillers. Richards and Langthorne profile Conrad Murray, the doctor who prescribed the medications that ultimately killed Jackson and who served time in prison for his death. Additionally, they comment on Jackson’s childhood, his relationships, both personal and romantic, his career, and his physical appearance.
Reviews of 83 Minutes were mixed. A Kirkus Reviews critic suggested: “Those who can’t get enough of the details of Jackson’s death might relish this account, but those who prefer to appreciate his music should look elsewhere.” Daisy Wyatt, contributor to the London Independent Online, remarked: “Rather than giving a thrilling, page-turning account of the events that led up to Jackson’s death, 83 Minutes is written as a painstaking survey. The one hundred pages of footnotes are testament to the years of research that have gone into the book, which makes for an informed read but not a particularly enjoyable one. … The book feels more like an extended 300 page news story.” A reviewer on Publishers Weekly Online described the book as “tiresome.” The same reviewer concluded: “In the end, the authors succeed in illustrating little more than what readers most likely already know.” “Although 83 Minutes doesn’t deliver any bombshells, Jackson fans will find the book a sadly fascinating minute-by-minute account of the singer’s last days and hours,” commented Alice Cary in BookPage. Booklist writer, June Sawyers, described the volume as “a haunting and thoroughly researched account of the untimely death of an immeasurably influential artist.” Terri Schlichenmeyer, contributor to the lgbtSr website, stated: “This is an easy book to dive into.” Schlichenmeyer added: “To rehash Jackson’s biography may seem redundant–haven’t there been enough MJ books?–but it’s actually a fascinating scene-setter for the re-creation of the dramatic events of seven years ago.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, April 15, 2016, June Sawyers, review of 83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson, p. 8.
BookPage, July, 2016, Alice Cary, review of 83 Minutes, p. 27.
Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2016, review of 83 Minutes.
ONLINE
lgbtSr, http://www.lgbtsr.org/ ( June 27, 2016), Terri Schlichenmeyer, review of 83 Minutes.
London Independent Online, http://www.independent.co.uk/ (September 17, 2015), Daisy Wyatt, review of 83 Minutes.
Publishers Weekly Online, http://www.publishersweekly.com/ (May 30, 2016), review of 83 Minutes.*
Mark Langthorne is CEO of Roland Mouret and has previously worked in the music industry with such stars as Kanye West, Marc Almond and Annie Lennox.
Mark Langthorne
Mark Langthorne was born August 4th 1962, Northallerton North Yorkshire, the sixth child of Alec and Sylvia Langthorne. He went to secondary school in Thirsk, and onward to Harrogate Arts College before embarking on his move to London.
Career
In the 1980s he worked in publishing, and throughout the early nineties promoted clubs, opening London's infamous Soho bar, Freedom
In the 1990s Mark began his career in Artist Management, working with the Icelandic band Lhooq, and then with the British singer Marc Almond , whom remains one of his longest standing clients to date. Mark continues to work within the Music Industry with a variety of Artists and on a number of different projects.
He also worked in Art Styling and Video Direction in the nineties, and it is in this period that he met Roland Mouret , whose career he would go on to manage in Fashion - Roland and Mark still work very closely to this day
Over the last decade Mark has worked as a Consultant to Simon Fuller, originally at 19 Entertainment Ltd and most recently at XIX Entertainment Ltd, and has involvement with various fashion ventures, including the Joint Venture between Roland Mouret and Simon Fuller.
Langthorne is Creative Director to several artists including Annie Lennox , whom he Directed 'Dark Road' for, and continues to work creatively with Annie on her upcoming projects
Furthermore Mark is Producing Feature Films and is also writing his first novel. In 2010 Mark set up his own Film, TV and Publishing company, LAB Entertainment, which allows him to explore the breadth of these mediums.
QUOTED: "Although 83 Minutes doesn't deliver any bombshells, Jackson fans will find the book a sadly fascinating minute-by-minute account of the singer's last days and hours."
83 Minutes
Alice Cary
(July 2016): p27.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 BookPage
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83 MINUTES
By Matt Richards and Mark
Langthorne
Thomas Dunne
$27.99, 432 pages
ISBN 9781250108920
eBook available
BIOGRAPHY
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson was preparing for 50 sold-out "This Is It" concerts when he stopped breathing at the Los Angeles mansion he was renting. His personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who was administering medication intravenously to help him sleep, noticed that something was wrong at 11:51 a.m., and 83 minutes later, 50-year-old Jackson was pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center.
Drawing on court documents and other materials, 83 Minutes examines what happened during that time, along with the tragic factors that brought Jackson and Murray together, resulting in Jackson's death and Murray's imprisonment.
Despite his immense earnings and accomplishments, Jackson was facing financial ruin and was addicted to prescription drugs. He relied on the anesthetic Propofol, which he called "milk," to help ease the rush of adrenaline after rehearsals and shows and allow him to sleep. Murray was in financial trouble as well, and all too happy to enable Jackson's dependencies.
Instead of carefully monitoring his patient, Murray likely had stepped out of Jackson's bedroom/"medication room" to answer emails and make phone calls, likely not noticing when Jackson stopped breathing. He was on the phone with his mistress, in fact, when he abruptly ended the call, and the final chaos ensued.
Meanwhile, Jackson's three children were playing in the den, under the care of their nanny, and his chef was preparing a Cobb salad for the family's lunch.
Although 83 Minutes doesn't deliver any bombshells, Jackson fans will find the book a sadly fascinating minute-by-minute account of the singer's last days and hours.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Cary, Alice. "83 Minutes." BookPage, July 2016, p. 27. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA456480901&it=r&asid=db7e1263df5ddac54797f31e9898141e. Accessed 10 May 2017.
QUOTED: "Those who can't get enough of the details of Jackson's death might relish this account, but those who prefer to appreciate his music should look elsewhere."
Gale Document Number: GALE|A456480901
Richards, Matt: 83 MINUTES
(May 15, 2016):
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 Kirkus Media LLC
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/
Richards, Matt 83 MINUTES Dunne/St. Martin's (Adult Nonfiction) $27.99 6, 21 ISBN: 978-1-250-10892-0
A tabloid-style exploration of the death of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), particularly the role the singer's personal physician may have played in his demise.In their first book, screenwriter and director Richards and music manager Langthorne plod methodically and chronologically through Jackson's life, pausing to zoom in on his final few days as well as the 83 minutes that passed between the time Jackson's physician, Conrad Murray, allegedly discovered him unconscious and the time of his arrival at the hospital. The rehash of the singer's life in the first half of the book treads familiar ground, dutifully recording how high Jackson's records made it on the Billboard charts, detailing his intake of prescription painkillers, describing the lawsuits filed against the singer, and examining the minutiae of his contracts with his various producers. In the second half of the book, the authors rely heavily on court records from the trial of Murray on the charge of involuntary manslaughter, of which he was convicted. The picture that emerges of Jackson's last days is sordid and depressing: Murray appears to have been incompetent and distracted, at best, while his patient comes across as "a frail, deeply insecure, vulnerable, unfit, 50-year-old with a chronic addiction to a wide variety of prescription medicines." The authors raise the question of whether his producers at the time, AEG Live, may have somehow been involved in his death, but they back away from making any firm conclusions. The book's bibliography is heavy on websites, and the extensive notes often contain material that could have been more gracefully added to the text. While the epigraphs from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that head each chapter suggest that the authors may have intended a psychological analysis of their subject, their emphasis is strictly on the facts. Those who can't get enough of the details of Jackson's death might relish this account, but those who prefer to appreciate his music should look elsewhere.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Richards, Matt: 83 MINUTES." Kirkus Reviews, 15 May 2016. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA452197759&it=r&asid=401f5a6b39a7cac9903ba2f6249204ff. Accessed 10 May 2017.
QUOTED: "a haunting and thoroughly researched account of the untimely death of an immeasurably influential artist."
Gale Document Number: GALE|A452197759
83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
June Sawyers
112.16 (Apr. 15, 2016): p8.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 American Library Association
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson. By Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne. June 2016. 432p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $27.99 (9781250108920); e-book (9781250108937). 782.4216.
The anniversary of Michael Jackson's tragic death, on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50, inspired Tavis Smiley and David Ritz's Before You Judge Me (2016) and Richards' and Langthorne's detailed inquiry. They illuminate Jackson's relationship with Dr. Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, for which he served two years in prison, and Jackson's numerous health issues, financial problems, and personal scandals. Injuries sustained while working on a Pepsi commercial in 1984, as well as a back injury during a live show in Germany in 1999, led the singer, say the authors, to become increasingly dependent on prescription painkillers. The authors also discuss Jackson's early years, the devastatingly negative impact of the Living with Michael Jackson documentary, his ever-changing physical appearance, and his complicated personal relationships, including his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe. But most of the book is devoted to the last few weeks in the singer's life and the heartbreaking final hours. A haunting and thoroughly researched account of the untimely death of an immeasurably influential artist. --June Sawyers
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Sawyers, June. "83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson." Booklist, 15 Apr. 2016, p. 8+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA451632141&it=r&asid=3bb927e34979d2ca1a727aac13856bc8. Accessed 10 May 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A451632141
QUOTED: "Rather than giving a thrilling, page-turning account of the events that led up to Jackson’s death, 83 Minutes is written as a painstaking survey. The 100 pages of footnotes are testament to the years of research that have gone into the book, which makes for an informed read but not a particularly enjoyable one. ... The book feels more like an extended 300 page news story."
83 Minutes: The Doctor, The Damage and The Shocking Death of Michael Jackson by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne; book review
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What really happened in the 83 minutes between Michael Jackson’s doctor noticing he wasn’t breathing and finally phoning 9/11 on 25 June 2009? This book seeks to lay bare the truth about that crucial window of time, which still remains hazy to this day due to conflicting accounts from Jackson’s personal physician, Dr Murray, and other witnesses working at the singer’s home on North Carolwood Drive in LA.
Despite the book’s attempt to retell the story of Jackson’s death from prescription drug intoxication in objective terms, it is clear that the authors find Dr Murray guilty of neglecting Jackson during those pivotal 83 minutes, and of administering him dangerous anaesthetic drugs that he should never have agreed to.
Jackson hired Murray in a desperate attempt to find a personal physician who would be prepared to give him Propofol, a form of anaesthetic administered intravenously, due to the singer’s increasing inability to sleep. In the last weeks of Jackson’s life, Murray appeared to be trying to wean the singer off the dangerous drug, but a heady mixture of financial pressures and addictive tendencies led to a fatal dose being administered.
Murray had accepted an offer of $150,000 a month to act as Jackson’s personal doctor for AEG Live, the company in charge of Jackson’s big comeback shows in London. While the singer – who had a history of addiction to prescription pain killers - became adamant he needed the Propofol, what he called “milk”, to help him sleep to prepare for the show’s rehearsals.
Paramedics found Jackson unresponsive on his bed, on which rested a porcelain doll with curly golden hair. The bedroom was strewn with needles, cans of Red Bull and boxes of pills. Perhaps most eerily, Jackson was found wearing a condom catheter sleeping on a waterproof mattress to cater for his supposed incontinence. The tragic tale of the boy who never grew up ended here.
But rather than giving a thrilling, page-turning account of the events that led up to Jackson’s death, 83 Minutes is written as a painstaking survey. The 100 pages of footnotes are testament to the years of research that have gone into the book, which makes for an informed read but not a particularly enjoyable one. The sentences are short, the language economical and the book feels more like an extended 300 page news story than a dramatic retelling of one of the biggest stories in the history of showbiz.
Indeed, authors Richard and Langthorne should be commended for choosing to tell a story that has relied so heavily on sensationalism in the purest of terms, however it is hard to tell quite who the book’s audience is intended to be. It is hardly a beach read, even for the most ardent Jackson fan.
The book is devoid of any emotional insight into why the singer died six years ago, relying instead on facts and testimonies. One of the few psychological analyses of the singer’s state of mind comes from his make-up artist, Karen Faye, who is quoted as saying: “I see so many people invest in his success and believe in him. Then I have to watch him self-destruct. I have seen with my own eyes him deteriorate physically in a month. I have seen him do this several times in my relationship with him.”
La Toya Jackson’s claims that Michael Jackson was “worth more dead than alive” turned out to be true. While no party was found to have been complicit in the murder of Jackson, the combined earnings of Jay Z, Kanye West and Taylor Swift come nowhere near the sums made from Jackson’s estate since his death.
QUOTED: "tiresome."
"In the end, the authors succeed in illustrating little more than what readers most likely already know."
83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne. St. Martin's/ Dunne, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-10892-0
In this tiresome account, Richards and Langthorne provide the already well-known details of Jackson's dysfunctional family, his alleged pedophilia, and his descent into drug addiction following the burns he suffered during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. Richards and Langthorne attest that January 27, 1984, was the beginning of the end for Jackson, as he grew more and more dependent on narcotics to ease his pain. After Jackson meets Conrad Murray in 2006, Murray assumes the mantle of the King of Pop's personal physician, and their lives are intertwined forever. The authors ramble on needlessly about Murray's native country of Grenada in addition to pointing out that the debt-ridden Murray was just as much in need of Jackson as Jackson was of easy access to drugs. Sprinkling their allegedly objective chronicle with judgments about "bizarre" nature of the "tragedy," they conclude that Murray was negligent in his care for Jackson and speculate against all evidence that the singer might still be alive if Murray had practiced good medicine. In the end, the authors succeed in illustrating little more than what readers most likely already know. Agent: Carrie-Ann Pitt, Blink. (June)
Reviewed on: 05/30/2016
Release date: 06/21/2016
Paperback - 272 pages - 978-1-910536-21-6
Ebook - 978-1-250-10893-7
QUOTED: "This is an easy book to dive into."
"To rehash Jackson’s biography may seem redundant–haven’t there been enough MJ books?–but it’s actually a fascinating scene-setter for the re-creation of the dramatic events of seven years ago."
Book Review: 83 Minutes: The Shocking Death of Michael Jackson, by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne
Editor June 27, 2016
83 MinutesThe Bookworm Sez
Terri Schlichenmeyer
“83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson” by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne
c.2016, Thomas Dunne Books 426 pages
It doesn’t take very long.
An accident, a murder, a surprise can happen in an instant that can seem like a lifetime. It doesn’t take very long – or does it? The odd thing about time is that it’s shapeable, as you’ll see in the new book “83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson” by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne.
On June 25, 2009, when the 911 call came into the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, medical staff had no idea they were in the middle of pop culture history. The emergency operator and the paramedics he dispatched didn’t know the identity of the man they were asked to help, but they learned soon enough that their patient was Michael Jackson.
For Jackson, it had been a long, rough road to that moment.
Throughout his life, he’d survived loneliness, physical abuse, estrangement from family, accidents, and scandals. Outwardly, he was a survivor, driven, a perfectionist. Behind closed doors, though, there was something more sinister.
In the days following the making of a commercial in which Jackson so famously received scalp burns, he was understandably in pain. Doctors administered narcotics to alleviate his suffering and, consequently, Jackson became increasingly dependent on drugs. Later, he complained of insomnia, and he visited several medical providers for more, different prescriptions. He even asked for help from the doctor his children had been seeing for their allergies.
Dr. Conrad Murray was happy to oblige.
Whether Murray was officially hired to be the personal physician for Jackson’s come-back tour is a matter of opinion but the authors say that Murray needed money, and assuming Jackson’s care was his chosen method. That included giving the singer drugs which allowed Jackson to sleep but which fueled his addiction. It didn’t take long before Jackson needed more-powerful drugs, which Murray procured in large quantities.
And on June 25, 2009, one of those drugs shook the world…
It’s rare for me to like a book before I even get to the end of Page One, but that’s what happened with “83 Minutes.” This is an easy book to dive into.
Starting with what became a crime scene, authors Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne then take us back 50 years to show how Michael Jackson’s death seemed to be decades in the making. To rehash Jackson’s biography may seem redundant – haven’t there been enough MJ books? – but it’s actually a fascinating scene-setter for the re-creation of the dramatic events of seven years ago.
Richards and Langthorne go on to imagine what may have happened, based on what’s known. Was Michael Jackson murdered – and if so, by whom? Their hypotheses are intriguing, especially in light of the aftermath of Jackson’s death, his will(s), and the legacy he left.
They say you’ll always remember where you were when you hear of certain tragedies, and “83 Minutes” takes you there again. For fans, definitely, as well as students of pop culture and true crime aficionados, immersion in this book won’t take long.
head shot 11-06 laying 2 (2)The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 13,000 books.