Michael Jackson - Thriller

180 Gram Vinyl! World's Top-Selling Album of All Time! Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 20/500! Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Beat It" - Rated 344/500! Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, made an indelible imprint on popular music and culture. During his extraordinary career, he sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles and became one of a handful of artists to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Jackson as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time and “Thriller” as the World's Top-Selling Album of All Time. His artistry, choreography and music continue to inspire generations of pop, soul, R&B and hip-hop artists and fans. "Michael Jackson towered over the 1980s the way Elvis Presley dominated the 1950s, and here's why. On Thriller, the child R&B star ripened into a Technicolor soulman: a singer, dancer and songwriter with incomparable crossover instincts. He and producer Quincy Jones established the something-for-everyone template with 1979's Off the Wall, a crisp fusion of pop hooks and dance beats. On Thriller, the pair heighten the sheen ("The Girl Is Mine"), pump up the theater ("Thriller") and deepen the funk. But the most thrilling thing was the autobiography busting through the gloss: the hiss of denial on "Billie Jean"; the to-hell-with-haters strut of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Jackson was at the peak of his art and adulthood. Thriller, reportedly recorded for $750,000, has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide — and it still sells. It earned Jackson over 150 gold and platinum awards worldwide and a record seven Grammys. At the height of Michaelmania in 1984, Epic Records was selling in excess of 1 million Jackson records a week. Thriller was the musical equivalent of the Hula-Hoop, an item that everybody had to own." - Rolling Stone "'I wanted to write the type of rock song that I would go out and buy,' said Jackson, 'but also something totally different from the rock music I was hearing on Top 40 radio.' The result was a throbbing dance single with a fingers-flying guitar solo provided by Eddie Van Halen. 'I’m not gonna sit here and tell you what to play,' Jones instructed Van Halen. 'The reason you’re here is because of what you do play.'" - Rolling Stone Features: • 180 Gram Vinyl • Import • Gatefold Jacket • World's Top-Selling Album of All Time Selections: Side A: 1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2. Baby Be Mine 3. The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney) 4. Thriller Side B: 1. Beat It 2. Billie Jean 3. Human Nature 4. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 5. The Lady In My Life