The greatest music video ever made
Michael Jackson’s Thriller, that 14-minute music video was first shown on MTV at midnight, 2nd December 1983, when MTV was 2 years old. It’s often called the greatest music video of all time. I call it the moment when I abandoned my books for TV.
It cost USD500,000 – an amazing sum at that time.
But it was worth it: demand was such that MTV played it twice every hour.
It had an unsurpassed effect on popular culture, “a watershed moment for the music industry for its unprecedented merging of filmmaking and music.”
It is probably the best selling music video of all time, with 9 million units sold.
The girl in the video is former Playboy centerfold Ola Ray, 23 at the time of the video’s release.
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