The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off its free outdoor screenings Thursday night with a documentary detailing the making of Michael Jackson’s legendary "Thriller" video from 1984.
Jackson fans of all ages turned out the special drive-in screening at the World Financial Center.
This year’s Super Bowl viewers saw a group of lizards dancing with supermodel (and cell phone enthusiast) Naomi Campbell to Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" in a spot for Pepsi’s SoBe Life Water.
Choreographer {tag Shane Sparks} adds his voice to the list of inspired artists who were floored by the awesomeness of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Seminal Video from the 20th Century is Enhanced by Breakthrough Technology for the Next Century For the first time ever and through the magic of technology, anyone can now star in the greatest music video of all time Michael Jacksons Thriller – as part of the albums worldwide 25th anniversary celebration!
Michael Jackson / Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition
Four stars
This reissue lets fans marvel again at Michael Jackson’s incredible, masterful singing, with the peerless Quincy Jones in the control room. And no track holds up better or impresses more than “Billie Jean,” which continues to rank as one of the greatest pop songs ever.
Thriller 25 — the newly-expanded deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the world’s best-selling album of all-time — is America’s #2 Top-Selling Album this week, more than a quarter century after the album’s original release. Already shaping up as one of the hottest albums of 2008, Thriller 25 has rocketed into the Top 5 (or better) in a variety of territories across the planet following its worldwide release the week of February 11.
When is the second highest selling album of the week nowhere to be found in the top 200?
There used to be a number of reasons but now it’s down to one: When the disc has been classified as a catalog release.
The 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" (Epic/Legacy) sold 166,000 copies in its first week of release, which would make it the second biggest seller of the week that ended Sunday.
Check out this video from SOHH.com featuring their ’60 seconds’ series, this time with Ne-yo. Ne-yo is doing some work for a bunch of artists, including Michael Jackson. View video here:
If you look to the right, you’ll notice underneath ThrillerCast, another episode has been posted!
For this episode, legendary rap icon DMC talks about being inspired by Thriller. He says people may have expected Jackson’s music to be stuck in an adolescence phase.