Having a sudden creative idea, Michael Jackson called
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Having a sudden creative idea, Michael Jackson called the director John Landis after seeing his film An American Werewolf in London and they decided to create a short film called Thriller with a budget much larger than previous music videos. That was Jackson's sixth studio album. Michael Jackson reunited with his fifth studio album Of the Wall producer Quincy Jones to record it. The pair worked together on 30 songs, nine of which were eventually included. Jackson wrote four songs for the video on his own. Recording took place from April to November 1982 all Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, with a production budget of $ 750 ,000. But Jackson's record company, Epic Records, refused to finance it, so a making of documentary, Making Michael Jackson' s Thriller, was produced to receive financing from television networks.
Michael Jackson's Thriller was launched on November 30, 1982, in the United States and played regularly on MTV. It doubled the sales of Thriller, helping it become the best-selling album in history, and sold over a million copies on VHS, becoming the bestselling videotape at the time. The album won a record-breaking- eight Grammy Awards in 1984. including Album of the Year. It is credited for transforming music videos into a serious art form, breaking down racial barriers in popular entertainment, and popularizing the making of documentary format.
The album has had a lasting effete on popular culture, such as the zombie dance and Jackson's red jacket, designed by Landis's wife Deborah Nadoolman. Fans worldwide re-act out its zombie dance and it remains popular on YouTube. "The Library of Congress described it as” the most famous music video of all time". In 2009 , it became the first music video inducted into the National Film Registry as “culturally and historically" significant. Today, Thriller is still viewed in a positive light by people more than three decades later. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the record had something to interest everyone.
