Hundreds of Michael Jackson fans have danced in the streets of London to celebrate their hero's life.

A flash mob was held outside Liverpool Street station just after 6pm on Friday.

The crowd cheered and held Jacko pictures in the air as the party started with Billie Jean, which was followed by Thriller and Bad.

Scores of mobile phone cameras were lifted into the air filming people dressed in the superstar's attire and singing his most famous hits.

After the third and final song, Bad, was played, the fans booed and started chanting "We want more".

To the delight of the spectators, Billie Jean was played again and a small circle was formed in the middle of the crowd for people wanting to show off their moonwalking talent.

The event was organised by Milo Yiannopoulls who invited people through social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to moonwalk for Michael.

He said: "Somebody said it as a joke on Twitter at about 9.30 this morning that we should do this mass thing in Liverpool Street station.

"I thought that's funny, and then a couple of minutes later, I thought no let's actually do it."

Mr Yiannopoulls later paid tribute to Michael Jackson, and said: "Well obviously everybody's interested in the scandal and controversy, but really I think his legacy is the music, as we're here to enjoy the music."

Anne Lovett from Normandy in France, said: "A genius of pop music and music in general died and I'm pretty upset about it.

"I'm a classical musician and a trained classical pianist and he really touched my heart as a performer."

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