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The cover for Thriller features ... The national broadcast TV premiere of the Thriller album's ... Andrew R. Chow wrote in Time that Thriller is "a towering ...
Temperton also wrote the spoken word section of the song for the actor Vincent Price. [13] On coming up with the title "Thriller", [2] Temperton once said: I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles and came up with Midnight Man. The next morning, I woke up and I just said this word. Something in my head just said, 'This is the ...
The album Thriller was released in November 1982 on Epic Records and spent months at the top of the Billboard 200. [15] "Thriller" was not initially planned for release as a single, as Epic saw it as a novelty song. [16] The Epic executive Walter Yetnikoff asked: "Who wants a single about monsters?" [15] By mid-1983, sales of the album had ...
Thriller spent 37 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, and set the record for most top 10 singles from an album, with seven. It has since sold over 60 million copies around the world.
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" was released in the US on September 19, 1983, as the sixth single from Thriller. The single charted at no. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no. 46 on the Hot Black Singles chart, becoming the sixth Top 10 hit from Thriller. [2] [13] The song was released in Europe in March 1984.
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is the best-selling album of all time, having sold a reported 70 million copies. Sarasota mystery writer Don Bruns would be happy with a fraction of that success ...
"Human Nature" was released in July 1983, as the fifth single from Thriller. [11] It was not released as a single in the UK. The song achieved chart success in the US. [11] Reaching number two on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary chart and number seven on the Hot 100, the song became Jackson's fifth top 10 hit from Thriller.
"Girlfriend" is a cover of the 1978 original by English rock band Wings, written by Paul McCartney. Jones produced "Off the Wall", with co-production credit given to Jackson on the songs he wrote for the album. Songwriters included Jackson, Heatwave's Rod Temperton, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. [17]