

Another manifestation of his piety, according to producer Quincy Jones: During the recording of Thriller, in a studio in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, “a healthy California girl walked by the front window of the studio, which was a one-way mirror facing the street, and pulled her dress up over her head. The opening title card (“Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult”) was inserted due to Jackson’s Jehovah’s Witness faith. Temperton, a British native formerly of the funk band Heatwave, also wrote “Baby Be Mine” and “The Lady in My Life” for Thriller (and earlier, had penned “Rock With You” and “Off the Wall” for Jackson). The working title for the album was originally Starlight.īefore songwriter Rod Temperton came up with Thriller, Michael Jackson’s working title for the albums was Starlight.
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Jackson and Landis funded their budget by getting MTV and Showtime to pay $250,000 each for the rights to show the 45-minute The Making of “Thriller.” (MTV reasoned that if they were paying for a movie, they were circumventing their own policy.) Landis nicknamed the stretched-out documentary The Making of Filler.ģ0 Best Horror TV Shows of All Time 2. But CBS Records wouldn’t pay for a third video from Thriller, and MTV had a policy of never paying for clips. The video cost half-a-million dollars at the time, it was the most expensive video ever made. Here’s 12 things you might not have realized the first time, or the 200th time, you watched it. “Thriller” got saturation play on MTV and has been seen more than 149 million times on YouTube. Director John Landis ( The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London) extended the track - the seventh and final single released from the Thriller album - into a nearly 14-minute-long musical horror film, letting Michael indulge his monster-movie fantasies. Michael Jackson’s video for “ Thriller” was released nearly 40 years ago, on December 2nd, 1983.
