"Here was the emerging King of Pop with the great Beatle and it was a statement," Brown said. Quicklist: 4title: Jackson's Duet With Paul McCartneytext: Jackson's first single released from "Thriller" was his duet with Beatle Paul McCartney, "The Girl Is Mine." Critics widely panned it, but the song reached No. Heatwave's Rod Temperton added "Rock With You" and a song he originally titled "Starlight" or "Midnight Man" but later changed to "Thriller." media: 17829166 "Beat It" was Jackson's peace offering to the Los Angeles gangs, according to Brown, who added that the video included some of South Central's most notorious gang members. Often overlooked is the fact that Jackson wrote four of the songs, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "The Girl Is Mine," "Beat It" and "Billie Jean." "So you have to think what kind of songs were they working with, because the album is so tight." Quicklist: 3title: How They Got the Songstext: "Quincy and Michael had gone through 700 demos, got that down to nine, then threw out four of those and that's how they got 'Beat It' and 'The Lady In My Life,'" Mitchell said. It opened the door to that perfect storm of a relationship."Īfter "Thriller," Jones and Jackson collaborated on his next album, "Bad," which sold 45 million dia: 17829518 "But Michael really pushed it and out of that came 'Off the Wall.' That was kind of an appetizer. "Quincy was considered more of a jazz kind of person," Gail Mitchell, Billboard's R&B senior correspondent, told. Quicklist: 2title: 'Thriller' Continued Jackson's Collaboration with Quincy Jonestext: When Jackson first suggested working with Quincy Jones on "Off the Wall," his record label was hesitant. "Thriller" went on to win eight Grammys in 1984 and sell between 65 and 110 million copies dia: 17830098 "When he did not win best album, he was so upset that he wrote in his sister La Toya's lipstick on the mirror in his room that he would sell 50 million copies of his next album," said Brown, who used to work for the Jackson family.
Quicklist: 1title: 'Thriller' Was Jackson's Response to Disappointment of 'Off the Wall'text: "Thriller" was Jackson's follow-up to his 1979 album "Off the Wall," which, by most accounts, was a critical and commercial success, selling more than 20 million copies. "Thirty years ago the greatest album ever made was released and it still stands the test of time," Jackson biographer Stacy Brown told .Ĭlick through to read 10 things you might or might not know about the making of "Thriller."
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