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Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 21 Thrilling Facts About Michael Jackson’s Thriller<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 3. THE ALBUM’S TITLE WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT MAN<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> 5. VINCENT PRICE MADE LESS THAN $1000 FOR HIS WORK ON THE TITLE TRACK.<\/span><\/strong> 19. THE “THRILLER” MUSIC VIDEO COST $500,000.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 21 Thrilling Facts About Michael Jackson’s Thriller.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 3. THE ALBUM’S TITLE WAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nQuincy Jones asked arranger\/songwriter Rod Temperton to come up with an album title. He wrote down 200 to 300 possible titles in his hotel room before deciding on Midnight Man<\/em>. The next morning he woke up and the word \u201cThriller\u201d popped into his head. “Something in my head just said, this is the title,” recalled Temperton. “You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ‘Thriller.'”<\/p>\n
\nJones\u2019 then-wife Peggy Lipton knew Price. The horror movie legend managed to record his part in two takes. Once the album got big, Price expressed frustration over his meager paycheck and said that Jackson had stopped taking his calls.<\/p>\n
\nThe Showtime cable network footed $300,000 of the budget for the rights to first air the music video and the \u201cmaking of\u201d feature, with MTV paying the rest to broadcast it after Showtime. Jackson asked John Landis to direct the video after seeing his work on the movie An American Werewolf in London<\/em>. “I want to turn into a monster,” Jackson told Landis. “Can I do that?” Landis wrote the disclaimer that appears in the beginning of the video because Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses (a group which Jackson belonged to at the time) told the artist that \u201cThriller\u201d endorsed Satanism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"