ABSTRACT Michael Jackson: “The making of thriller”. Longoria A. 2017. Key terms: Michael Jackson, thriller, Quincy jones. Historical Background. Thrillers History. When did it come out? “According to George, N. (2014), although Michael Jackson's Thriller was released in November 1982, the artist and the album's immense cultural impact solidified in early 1984”. It took 2 years for it to become big. The process.
When did they start? According to Mitchell, G. (2009), work began in earnest in August 1982. Jackson wrote several of the songs: "The Girl Is Mine," "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Among the other writers was former Heatwave
George, N. (2014) said, Although Michael Jackson's Thriller was released in November 1982, the artist and the album's immense cultural impact solidified in early 1984. It took 2 years for the album to become popular. According to George, N. (2014) “Thriller spent 17 of its 37 weeks a top the Billboard 200 during an uninterrupted streak that ran from Dec. 24,1983 through April 14,1984, second only to the West Side Story soundtrack.”
Then George, N. (2014) says The pop star, then 25, would take home eight Grammys for the album in February and break a Hot 10 o record for the most top 10 singles from the same album -- seven -- when the title track, buoyed by its groundbreaking John Landis-directed video, peaked at No. 4 on March 3. This album made history. Making it the best-selling album of all time.
Then George, N. (2014) says “According to the RIAA, Thriller is tied with the Eagles' Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 as the best-selling album of all time in the United States, with 29 million copies shipped. And in July, Jackson reunited with his brothers for the Victory Tour, which grossed a then-record $75 million”. The victory tour helped with the success of thriller.
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(2009) would mention that, "Then one night we accidentally came upon a demo whose melody, later paired with lyrics by John Bettis, became 'Human Nature,' " Quincy Jones says. Mitchell, G(2009) The making of human nature.
How long did it take? Mitchell, G. (2009) says that, All-together, Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson spent four months reviewing more than 700 demos. Eventually they settled on nine. Then four of those were replaced by "The Lady in My Life," "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)," "Human Nature" and "Beat It." A list of songs from the album.
They were trying to mix genres. Mitchell, G. (2009) then quotes, “One priority was to balance "Thriller" between R&B and pop, disco and rock, funk and ballads. "We thought at one point we were done," recalls Greg Phillinganes, a keyboardist on the "Off the Wall" and "Thriller" albums. "And Quincy was like, 'No, not so fast. We need certain missing elements.' Michael was pretty disappointed but then that's how we got 'Lady' and 'Beat It.' "Mitchell, G.(2009) They needed to add pieces to make the
1997,the album was released and went on to sell four million copies. Third Eye Blind's debut
Her first debut album released for major record label was title ?Souled Out? and was released on the 9th September 2014. The album also had great critical success; it debuted on the third place on the Billboard 200 chart. Needless is to say that the album greatly increased Aiko`s net worth, as it has been sold over 70,000 copies in its first week.
The night of May 16, 1983, almost 50 million people watched one of the most spectacular performance on television (Scott 1). Jackson won 40 Billboard music awards (Scott 1). His lyrics are powerful he also talks about social causes, human race, and relationships. He inspired millions of people with the music he wrote. Since I was a little girl I listened to his music couple of my favorite songs are “Bad”, “Dirty Diana”, Make that Change”, “You are not alone”, “Billie Jean” “Smooth Criminal”. These songs where inspiring to me growing up to this day I listen to him. My siblings and me loved his movie called “The Moonwalker,” It’s about his music career when he was five years old till he went solo as an artist at the age of thirteen. I would watch his movie repeatedly. My sisters and me would try to follow his dance moves but we were always unsuccessful it was a great memory growing up. I loved the part when he turns himself into a bunny as a little girl I thought that was awesome. I would think I had magic And, I remember telling my mom “I wanted to be like Michael Jackson because he has powers” my mother would just laugh. One of his quotes from his lyrics that is powerful to me is “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change,” this
Michael Jackson went through numerous operations of plastic surgery to fix his nose and insert a dimple into his chin. In this time period, he was diagnosed with having a rare skin pigment disease called Vitiligo which turned his skin brighter. The media claimed that he bleached his skin color, also claimed that he was sleeping in an oxygen chamber. The scrutiny and backlash he received from the media steered farther away from the public eye. In 1993, he was falsely accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in which he settled the case out of court. This caused Jackson to spiral into an addiction to painkillers, which would be ultimate cause of his death in 2009. In 2005, he had another child molestation case in which he was acquitted out all
The album sold 700,000 hard copies and was number one on the Billboard 200 within a week’s time. He didn’t live to put the final touches on the album however, the album was the last thing left before Biggie’s death and perfected every single aspect that rappers go through. “Life After Death” has been acclaimed by many music writers in the industry as “one of the seminal mafioso” rap albums. The album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003. Most of the tracks on the album were written during the feud with Tupac and the album had a wide variety of songs and a lot of diversity in it. “Life After Death” set the record for the quickest and largest jump in the history of Billboard
“The Godfather of Soul”, better known as James Brown grew to be one of the most influential artists in Michael Jackson’s life. As a child Michael Jackson was intrigued by Brown’s flamboyant performances on stage and would soon begin to implement them into his own stage acts. By the age of five Michael Jackson was already sealed into a world of show business by his father, Joseph Jackson. Deprived of a childhood at a very young age, Michael and his siblings began a family-musical group called “The Jackson 5.” They began playing the soul hits they listened to on the radio all across the country. The band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968, frequently performing at clubs and bars. In 1966, they won a major local talent show with renditions of Motown hits and a cover of “I Feel Good (I Got You)” by James Brown. It wasn’t until July 23, 1968 where they received major recognition by Motown owner, Berry Gordy. Gordy was reluctant to sign the “Jackson 5” but after their audition performance of the song “I Got the Feelin”, by James Brown, he changed his mind. In March 1969, “The Jackson 5”, were officially signed into Motown records. This marked a historical point in Michael Jackson’s life where his musical influences from James Brown would be noticed. Song’s from Michael Jackson that s...
And that's saying a lot. Consider that she's already appeared in five television series, made seven albums, and starred in a major motion picture. She's sold over 24 million albums worldwide, achieved five Top Five hits from her 1986 record, Control and a record seven Top Five Hits from the 1989 Rhythm Nation 1814 album, four went to no.#1. She followed that up with a record breaking world tour, a movie and her self-titled album Janet.
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	By the time she was twenty-one, Janet was breaking away from the shyness she once possessed, and stopped living in the shadows of Michael and the other Jackson family members. She produced Rhythm Nation in black and white and made this statement, "I would hope that everyone will understand that once black represents something good. That’s why we were all dressed in black…Black is so beautiful to me."(3) Janet decided to set a new agenda whenever she produced the Virgin Records album, titled janet. She had a reason for naming her album janet. She describes her reason in an interview by Steve Pond. She said, "I prefer ‘Janet.’ It was always my dream for no one to know that I was a Jackson. I wanted them to accept me for me and to not know anything more than that. I wanted to take my last name off the very first album I ever
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Jimmy Page played guitar, Robert Plant was the vocalist, John Paul Jones played bass guitar and the keyboard, and John Bonham beat the drums. The group had the complete set up for a band right off the start. They produced their first record in thirty hours to complete their deal with the old Yardbirds. They toured Scandinavia for awhile also to complete their obligations to the Yardbirds.
Though their first single, "Big Boy," never made its appearance on the charts, NPR says that with their new contract with Motown, Michael experienced a first time share of breaking the record for having the first four singles of any pop group to top the charts. In 1970, the group made their first television appearance on American Bandstand helping them gain a national tour where they would be alongside Diana Ross. Michael, being the lead singer for more than two years, began his preparation for a solo career with Motown in 1971, at age thirteen; "Got to Be There" was Michael 's first solo single igniting his chart-topping streak within his solo career. His first number one single, "Ben", gained him an Oscar nomination for its subject matter; he became the youngest artist to receive an Oscar nomination for the Academy 's Best Original Song (Kennedy,
He pushed his sons including Michael into forming a group called the Jackson five. Their group quickly arose from playing local talent shows to landing a contract with the renowned Motown label at the end of 1968. During the early '70s the group became well-known, with "baby", Michael as the lead singer of the group. This talent dragged on for decades and gradually getting better and better, Michael taking the lead and as the main source of income for the family for proving and presenting his talent to many music labels and organizations throughout the years.
...d to these. It never really gained its own popularity and was criticized even more. Thrash Metal has recently seen quite a lot of popularity, even though the evolution of the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) age with Dubstep, Electro and House music is on the rise. Albums like Metallica’s Death Magnetic Slayer's World Painted Blood Anthrax's Worship Music, Megadeth's Thirteen have really put this music in the industry’s limelight. All these albums have only recently been released.
In just 9 years of being in the music industry, Rihanna has achieved 12 billboard music awards, 8 Grammy awards, sold 210 million songs and 54 million albums worldwide. You think that’s all? No! She’s the fastest solo artist to hit the no.1 singles on billboard hot 100, thirteen times; that too as the youngest in the scene!