From the moonwalk, Thriller, Jackson 5 passing through scandals and King of Pop, Michael Jackson is considered to be the most successful entertainer of all times.
He began his career in 1964 with his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon, creating the very successful group The Jackson 5.
In 1971, Michael started his solo career, turning to the dominant figure on the 80's not only for his live performances but also for his music talent.
He released 10 studio albums - Got To Be There (1972), Ben (1972), Music & Me (1973), Forever, Michael (1975), Off The Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995) and Invincible (2001).
Thanks to his work and long contribution to music and culture, not mentioning his own records and performances - Jackson is a very rewarded artist, receiving several Guinness World Records, Grammy Awards and American Music Awards.
Thriller is the most successful album of all times. This record was released in 1982, selling over 20 million copies around the world. Thriller includes some of the most known songs like Beat It or Billie Jean.
The self-titled song was the seventh and the last single taken from Thriller, released in 1984.
The songs initial title was supposed to be Starlight but the writer Rob Temperton once commented
"Originally, when I did my Thriller demo, I called it Starlight. Quincy said to me, 'You managed to come up with a title for the last album, see what you can do for this album.' (...) I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles, and came up with the title 'Midnight Man'. The next morning, I woke up, and I just said this word... Something in my head just said, this is the title."
Temperton also said that during the writing process he always imagined a talking section at the end, but he didn't know how and what to do until he decided "to have somebody, a famous voice, in the horror genre, to do this vocal" ending with Vincent Price - an American actor known for his distinguish voice and semi-comic attitude on horror movies.
The video for this song is a 14-minute short film based on the ideologies of the horror music from the 1950s. Shortly the plot of this film is about a couple - Michael and Ola Ray - and the guy asks her if she would marry him, what she replies yes. After he warns her that "he is different". He sees a full moon and transforms into a weird creature somewhere between a zombie and a werewolf.
Check the entire 14-minute video below.
"You hear the door slam
And realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes"
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