Source: Good News Network
On this day 35 years ago, Michael Jackson’s Thriller video premiered in Los Angeles. He wanted John Landis as his director (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places) after seeing “An American Werewolf in London”. The video, filmed around Los Angeles, contains a spoken word performance by horror film star Vincent Price.
The resulting 14-minute film revolutionized the music video industry forever. On the set watching at various times were Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The red jacket, designed by Landis’s wife, fetched $1.8 million at a 2011 auction from Texan gold trader Milton Verrett. WATCH the Making of Thriller…. (1983)After a week of opening for Disney’s Fantasia at a single cinema in L.A., MTV showed it to the world on December 2nd. The Thriller video created a buying frenzy for the album, which was released a full year earlier, with Jackson’s label Epic reportedly shipping a million copies a week in its immediate aftermath.
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Judas Maccabaeus restored the Temple in Jerusalem – The first Hanukkah (164 BC)
- Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer whose pointed social criticism satirizing French nobility and advocating freedom of religion and separation of church and state, landed him in prison for a year, but also spurred leaders of the American Revolution, was born (1694)
- Rebecca Felton became the first woman US Senator (1922)
- Ella Fitzgerald, at age 16, debuted as a singer at the Apollo Theater (1934)
- Toy Story, the first computer-generated feature film, was released (1995)
- Florida’s Supreme Court affirmed that votes in the presidential recount should continue to be tallied (2000)
- NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and…
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