Fun Facts About The Blues BrothersMichael Jacksons 1. Thriller needs no introduction, but here we are. Its the all time best selling album worldwide. It was also critically acclaimed, bestowed with a record breaking eight Grammy Awards. It launched Michael Jackson into superstardom, and the artistand the music industrywere never the same again. Here are some facts about the album, in case you want to be startin somethin. JACKSON WAS INSPIRED BY THE NUTCRACKER SUITE. While he already had the popular solo album Off the Wall to his credit also produced by Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson had a dream of making the biggest selling album ever. He wanted Thriller to resemble Tchaikovskys suite, where every song is a killer. HE TOLD HIS MUSICIANS TO THINK LIKE MICHELANGELO. Keyboardist David Paich of Toto was one of the musicians hired for Thriller. Twinkle Brothers Live At Jsmf 2014He remembered Jackson telling the instrumentalists in the Westlake Recording studio in Los Angeles, California to think of Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapeldo whatever you need to do here. Skys the limit. 3. THE ALBUMS TITLE WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT MAN. Quincy Jones asked arrangersongwriter Rod Temperton to come up with an album title. He wrote down 2. 00 to 3. Midnight Man. The next morning he woke up and the word Thriller popped into his head. Something in my head just said, this is the title, Temperton said. Jewelpet Japanese, Hepburn Juerupetto, also called Jewel Pets, is a 2009 Japanese magical girl anime series based on the Jewelpet franchise. Babys favorite toy will become a cherished keepsake with our personalized Twinkle Rattle. Theyll love playing with the shiny, magic wandinspired rattle, and you. You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as Thriller. THE SONG THRILLER WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED STARLIGHT. Temperton wrote the music and lyrics, with the chorus We got to make it while we can You need the starlight Some starlight sun I need you by my side you give me starlight Starlight tonight. Jones liked the melody, but asked Temperton to come back with something more like Edgar Allan Poe. The album title Thriller was already on the table, so matching it to the song was relatively easy. VINCENT PRICE MADE LESS THAN 1. FOR HIS WORK ON THE TITLE TRACK. Jones then wife Peggy Lipton knew Price. The horror movie legend managed to record his part in two takes. Once the album got big, Price expressed frustration over his meager paycheck and said that Jackson hadstopped taking his calls. JACKSON WAS SUED FOR WANNA BE STARTIN SOMETHIN. Cameroon musician Manu Dibango recorded Soul Makossa in 1. The song, sung in the Cameroonian language of Duala, elongated the phrase mamako mamasa as ma ma koma ma sama ko ma ko sa. Jackson changed it to ma ma sema ma sama ma ku sa, but the similarity was obvious. A compensation arrangement was hammered out in an out of court settlement. BILLIE JEAN WAS ABOUT ONE SPECIFIC GIRL. Quincy Jones claimed that Jackson told him Billie Jean was based on a girl who climbed over his wall one morning and accused him of being the father of one of her twins. Jones wanted the singer to change the title to Not My Lover to avoid possible confusion with the song being about tennis player Billie Jean King. BILLIE JEAN ALMOST KILLED MICHAEL. In his autobiography, Jackson wrote about the time he was driving his Rolls Royce down the Ventura Freeway during a recording session break. He was thinking about the song so much that he didnt notice the bottom of his car was on fire. A kid on a motorcycle warned him in time. JACKSON ADMITTED TO DARYL HALL THAT HE RIPPED OFF HALL OATES. As Hall remembers it, Jackson approached him during the We Are the World recording and admitted to cribbing the bass line from I Cant Go for That No Can Do for Billie Jean. BILLIE JEAN WAS MIXED 9. TIMES. Quincy Jones then requested, Lets go back and listen to mix number two, recording engineer Bruce Swedien said. And we did, and it blew us all away I had overmixed that song right into the pooper, so the mix that went onto the record was mix number two. THE GIRL IS MINE CAME FROM A REQUEST FROM QUINCY JONES. Jackson revealed during testimony that successfully fought a plagiarism allegation that the producer directed him to write a song about two men fighting over a girl. He later woke up in the middle of the night and sang the song into a tape recorder. Jones also later requested he add the rap verse. BEAT IT WAS INSPIRED BY MY SHARONA. Jones told. The Telegraph he wanted a black version of The Knack song. EDDIE VAN HALEN PLAYED THE GUITAR SOLO ON BEAT IT. He did it while the rest of his band, Van Halen, was out of town, not thinking anybody in the group would ever know. HUMAN NATURE WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE TOTO DIDNT GO CASSETTE SHOPPING. David Paich worked on demos for Jones to potentially use for Thriller, sending him cassettes virtually every day with songs. One day, his then roommate and Toto bandmate Steve Porcaro was tasked with recording Paichs demos onto a cassette. Porcaro reused one of his own tapes because they were out of blank cassettes. Jones didnt like the two songs of Paichs when he heard them, but he loved the next song that came onPorcaros early version of Human Nature. THE TITLE P. Y. T. PRETTY YOUNG THING CAME FROM PEGGY LIPTONS LINGERIE. Jones noticed his wifes lingerie said pretty young things on them, and tasked his songwriters to come up with lyrics for the title, Pretty Young Thing Tender Loving Care. Singersongwriter James Ingram came up with the winning version. THERE WERE SOME STRANGE RECORDING TECHNIQUES. Bruce Swedien recalled recording some background vocals in the Westlake shower stall. The Dont think twice lines in the second verse of Billie Jean was Jackson singing through a five foot long cardboard tube. CBS RECORDS AND MTV CLASHED OVER THE BILLIE JEAN VIDEO. In March 1. 98. 3, Billboard Magazine noticed a sizeable delay between the videos delivery to the fledgling cable network and its first airing. MTV claimed they only played rock artists, but were accused by someincluding publicly by Rick Jamesof being racist. CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff threatened to pull all videos made by the labels artists off the network if they didnt play Billie Jean. At first, the video ran two to three times a day for one month, before being put into heavy rotation for the next three months. BLOODS AND CRIPS MADE CAMEOS IN THE BEAT IT VIDEO. The video cost 1. Bob Giraldi, even though Billie Jean director Steve Barron was initially set to direct it. Jackson and Barron intended to set the video on a slave ship, with Jackson as the slave master. THE THRILLER MUSIC VIDEO COST 5. The Showtime cable network footed 3. MTV paying the rest to broadcast it after Showtime. Jackson asked John Landis to direct the video after seeing his work on the movie An American Werewolf in London. I want to turn into a monster, Jackson told Landis. Can I do that Landis wrote the disclaimer that appears in the beginning of the video because Jehovahs Witnesses a group which Jackson belonged to at the time told the artist that Thriller endorsed Satanism. THE THRILLER VIDEO PLAYED IN A MOVIE THEATER SO THAT IT COULD QUALIFY FOR AN OSCAR. How To Install Soft Close Hinges Ikea Furniture. For one week in a movie theater in Westwood, California, Thriller served as the opening feature before showings of Fantasia which didnt sit well with a lot of parents. MANY FANS THOUGHT THE UPC BARCODE ON THRILLER WAS MICHAEL JACKSONS HOME PHONE NUMBER. The rumor spread so much that a hair studio in Bellevue, Washington received up to 5.