Thriller manju biography of michael jackson

Zombies, werewolves and monsters, oh my! When Michael Jackson’s iconic music video for “Thriller” debuted on MTV on December 2, 1983, it changed the music video industry forever.

Similar to the way Queen pushed through doubters and disobeyed the normal three-minute length for a song when they debuted “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 1975 as a five-minute-and-54-second track, Jackson also defied the traditional length with a five-minute-and-57-second version of “Thriller” on his 1983 album of the same name.

But for the music video, it was stretched to a nearly 14-minute mini-movie, directed by John Landis — and was the first music video to be registered in the National Film Registry in 2009.

Complete with a plot and ending credits, the video, which clocks in at 13:42 in its YouTube form, has been hailed as one of the greatest music videos of all time — so much so that even the accompanying Making Michael Jackson’s