'Thriller' has sold more than 100 million copies and helped transform music videos.LOS ANGELES - Mixing rock, pop and RnB like never before, Michael Jackson's"Thriller" -- 40 years old next week -- became the most successful album of all time and defined a coming era with its audiovisual ambition.It consecrated Jackson as the"King of Pop" and remains a musical lodestone.
Much of the magic on"Thriller" is thanks to producer Quincy Jones, who had worked with Jackson on 1979's"Off The Wall". Initially, the record failed to break on to the newly established MTV channel, which refused to show the video for the megahit single"Billie Jean" on the grounds that black music did not"fit" with its white-dominated rock programming.
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