Black-and-white photos of Michael Jackson peered down from the Hitsville USA window, overlooking more than 3,000 fans who came out to a vigil Sunday night to say good-bye to the King of Pop.

Many in the crowd swayed to his songs, holding homemade signs, old album covers and, in one case, a Michael Jackson doll.
�Besides Jesus Christ, he was the cultural landscape of my life,� said Anne Morgan, who had hoped to celebrate her 50th birthday later this year at one of Jackson�s planned London concerts.
Hundreds of bouquets, stuffed animals and glittery white gloves created a makeshift shrine on the front steps of the museum.
The vigil�s program included a statement from Berry Gordy, delivered by his niece Robin Terry. �He had a hunger to learn, a hunger to be the best,� she read. �He was like my son.�
In a 3-D tribute to Jackson, impersonators entertained the crowd as they waited for the vigil to begin outside the Motown Historical Museum, where Jackson performed as a member of the Jackson 5.
During the event, fans were taken back to a scarier time in Jackson�s life when 17-year-old Shatara Stringer�s hair accidentally caught fire when someone was lighting a candle. As the Detroit teen screamed and patted it out, someone in the crowd shouted �Just like Michael,� alluding to his 1984 Pepsi commercial mishap.
�I was scared,� said Stringer, who was not injured in the incident. �I want to be an entertainer when I grow up and he inspired me.�
The makeshift shrine outside the museum will remain there for approximately a month and then will move to Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, where a ceremony will be held, said Audley Smith of the museum.