Michael Jackson Thriller Motown 25 and its huge success

MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER THE HUGE SUCCESS AND MOTOWN 25 (1982-1983)

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Someone in the Dark - 1982

In 1982, Michael Jackson contributed the song "Someone in the Dark" to the storybook for the film ET the Extra-Terrestrial. The album won a Grammy for Best Recording for Children in 1984. In the same year he won seven Grammy Awards and eight American Music Awards (including the Award of Merit, and the youngest artist to win), becoming the most awarded in a night for two awards. These awards were due to reconocidísimo Thriller album, released in late 1982, which became in 1983 the album sold around the world and also became the biggest selling album of all time in the United States, and the best-selling album of all time worldwide. The sale is estimated at 110 million copies so far.

Thriller Album - Topped The Billboard 200

The famous Michael Jackson's Thriller album, topped the Billboard 200 list coveted by artists, with the impressive 37 weeks in the first place, besides Michael Jackson, with his album Thriller, was in the top 10 of Billboard 200 on the list for 80 consecutive weeks. The records beaten by Michael Jackson and his album Thrieller not stop here, as well as was also the first album to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot-100 and 10 singles, including "Billie Jean" "Beat It," and "Want to Be Startin Somethin ". Thriller was certified for 29 million shipments by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond status in the United States.

Thriller for Best Engineered Classical Recording - 1984

Michael Jackson, his album also won another Grammy Thriller for Best Engineered Classical Recording in 1984. Michael Jackson's lawyer, John Branca, said Michael Jackson, had the highest rate of royalties in the music industry at that time: Approximately $ 2 per album sold. Also benefited from record sales of his recordings, Michael Jackson was a money making machine Artisit for the music industry and for himself too, so it was expected that the videotape of the documentary: "The performance of Thriller of Michael Jackson, , "sold over 350,000 copies within months.

Recent history saw the arrival of news from the music industry and marketing, as major artists dolls modeled after Michael Jackson, appeared in stores in May 1984 at a price of $ USD2. The biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, writes: "Thriller" ceased to be sold as an element of entertainment, like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit film and the like to then begin to be sold as a household staple for 1985. The performance of Thriller Michael Jackson, won a Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video. (In December 2009, the music video "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, plus "Thriller" video was the first musical to be admitted).

Michael Jackson - King of Pop

Time and history describe the powerful influence of Michael Jackson, at that time as well as later, for a versatile artist with abrupt and spectacular successes as "Star album", "Star Radio," "Star videomusical" " Rock Star, "" Pop Star "and that would immortalize his role in music history as" MICHAEL JACKSON - KING OF POP ".

Music Industry - Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, was and has been considered the man who rescued the music industry with his great talent. No doubt Michael Jackson was not only a great singer but a great composer who sets the pace for a decade. Michael Jackson, was a unique dancer, architect of many peculiar dance steps and choreography, for example his classic over walking on the moon. No doubt Michael Jackson was a singer who transcended all boundaries of taste, color, style, singing his own music with great feeling and perfect coordination, there is no doubt that in both concert performances and in his videos pre was a hard working team with multiple trials to achieve to achieve perfection in their presentations or at least as close as possible to them.

 

Perfectionist to the Extreme - Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, was a being very devoted to his work, a perfectionist to the extreme, this facet of his life that was as much glory as the source of problems at the same time, thanks to its self-imposed as in the extreme, we could enjoy immaculate creations as Thriller, biliary Jean, Bad, among others. But this same self-imposed was the cause of many of their biggest headaches, as was the constant disagreement with his physique so tried to "improve" it repeatedly with their constant visits to the operating room was not really a physical problem but a deep psychological problem and confusing ingrained since childhood because they wanted to somehow correct the abuses in its infancy with a host of physical and even personality traits in adulthood with children.

Yesterday, Today and Forever the Television Special - Michael Jackson

In March 1983, Michael Jackson, met with his brothers for a legendary live performance that was recorded for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (Yesterday, today and forever the television special). The show aired on May 16, 1983, to an audience of 47 million viewers, and was with Jackson and a number of other stars of Motown. It is remembered for the individual performance of Michael Jackson, with "Billie Jean". The use of a distinctive black jacket with sequins and golf gloves, jacket decorated with rhinestones, with which debuted its most famous passage of the moon walkers or moon walk, "Moonwalk."

MoonWalk - Michael Jackson 

The famous passage of the moon walk "Moonwalk," gave a lot of talk, even a famous New York Times columnist Anna Kisselgoff wrote that her dancing was impressive. "The moonwalk that Michael Jackson made famous is an apt metaphor for his dance style. How does he do? As a coach, a great magician, a mime genuine. His ability to keep one leg while sliding in both his other leg is curved and soft subtle whore seems to walk forward when going backward or are in the same place, really requires perfect timing for the illusion is really misleading as could Michael Jackson."

The professional and spectacular performance of Michael Jackson on stage, did comparable to Elvis Presley and The Beatles, Ed Sullivan said so in one of his shows.