Michael Jackson is back in action with his new album, Thriller.
Michael's new album featuring his latest
hit, 'Billie Jean', his smash single with Paul McCartney.
'The Girl Is Mine'.
Michael Jackson's thriller.
The excitement never lets up.
The biggest influence for me was the sixties, the Motown and the Beatles
and the Carpenters, and I don't know if all that had a big influence on me.
I'm sure it did.
And I just project how I feel.
Songs come at the strangest times I could be walking in the park or something,
you just hit you, it's no set time that I write, they come.
I wrote a song on
the Concord, fifty thousand feet in the air and didn't have a tape recorder.
So I had to remember it.
And
I got home, put it on tape, so they just come.
Epic Records recently brought
in Jane Fonda to present Michael with a double platinum album for his
Thriller LP, an event marking sales of two million.
I love Michael and I admire him.
He's the only person I know that writes
music that you can dream to and dance to and love to and work out to.
And I do all of them.
How are you feeling at this time about the success of Thriller?
I mean, the music business isn't exactly
going gangbusters, and yet you continue to sell records so.
Well,
I
every time I get a platinum album
should have been taken lightly
On my behalf, I'm always honor and it's great thanks.
I'm
very happy to be doing what I do and I'll continue to pour my heart into my work.
'Billie Jean' is Michael Jackson's single
that is currently number one on the rhythm and blues and pop single charts.
Jackson is also the first singer ever
to have an album and a single in first place on both charts.
We also asked him whether after nearly 20
years as a performer, Michael ever wishes he could be something else.
I love what I do. I didn't ask to be a singer.
I'm honored to be chosen.
I didn't ask to write songs.
And I'm happy to be chosen to do it to me.
Like when the painter
takes the paint and the brush, the canvas, you create magic there.
That's a gift.
And I'm thankful to be able to do what I do and have people who love it.
How many days of shooting to do?
'Beat It' was two nights.
They weren't considered days, long hard nights.
And somewhere around three o'clock in the morning you question whether you
want to stay any longer, but you stay
Every Sunday I fast, you don't need anything,
just something to do for my body
and I dance every Sunday.
I feel better doing it.
I don't eat anything.
What music do you dance to when you do this?
mine or
Anything that's got a fast beat to it.
Just the most incredible play I've ever seen.
It's brilliant.
Everybody should see it.
When I'm not onstage,
I'm not as happy and everything seems to be foreign to me
and I'm just now beginning to enjoy friendship, which is new.
The way you just did it was perfect, but please remember
correct.
Especially.
I like
the new songs.
On stage it is the most magic place I can be
I can't put it in words, it is escapism.
It's like walking on air
its my favourite place in the world
and I can't be hurt on stage.
I could sleep on stage.
I think the stage is wonderful.
I was raised on stage.
I love it.
I don't think about much and I don't think, you know, I actually am feeling it
is not a thing of thinking or mechanics, it is all spirit and feeling, really.
I'm so much into the music, I don't think.
Doing Thriller album was very incredible, wonderful experience,
working with Quincy Jones and working with so many wonderful musicians.
Do you feel anything when you come in here, Mike,
or is it just the presence of you that makes it exceptional?
Oh, it's a lot of hard work.
We spent a lot of time
sleeping on the couch. Wake up.
Mix it
go back to sleep
like it's a challenge.
Michael Jackson's latest most wonderful album is Thriller.
With hit after hit.
Get Michael Jackson's new album now
its 'Thriller'
And the winner is can't quite make
sure this is pretty hard erm Michael Jackson or
Billy Jack, Billy Jackson, Billy
Janet and she is Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.
Thank you very much.
I thank everyone again who voted for me.
I thank the public, as well as the disc jockeys
of all the songs on the Thriller album, I think I'm more happy about Billie Jean
than any of them because there's a lot of truth in the song.
I love you all and thank you.
I worked very hard on my videos and
I play a major role in bringing them
about and making them magic in everything that I see in my dreams.
We're trying to bring back motion picture shorts and I want a 'Thriller' and 'Beat It'
to be a stimulant for people to make better videos or short films.
Now they're coming together again
for a multi-million pound concert tour, the milestone was announced in a somewhat
understated fashion by their overly modest promoter.
The road is ephemeral,
it's euphoric.
It's exciting, is heavy, is the Jacksons
I met him when he was 16,
and he's so cute.
Then it was time for the man himself,
although Michael Jackson wasn't in his most talkative mood.
I can't really say much today,
but I would like to introduce some of the family here.
When I say magic, I wonderment, excitement, escapism, another world, and
there are other people who do that sort
of thing, like Steven Spielberg or Walt Disney,
and for the spectators, it's exciting.
It's entertainment, it' joy, it's love and makes my eyes light up like a great concert.
I like to create magic myself I love magic.
They want to shake my hand or touch me and
I think it's wonderful
and I'm projecting something that is good, I think is wonderful.
Your music crosses over to all different
styles and that other artists haven't done this before.
Well, I like I said before, I create you right from the heart.
There's no
chemistry that I know of.
I just
project what I feel.