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“Quincy Jones’ production is bare and refreshingly free from schmaltz,” said Rolling Stone on the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. “But then again, he’s working with pop music’s most spectacular instrument: Jackson’s voice.”

Michael Jackson has had his ups and downs in recent years. But as The Guardian wrote recently, “It is worth remembering that he was once a pop genius.”

2008 marks two Jackson anniversaries: his 50th year, and the release of a 25th anniversary edition of Thriller - the original of which remains the best-selling album ever.

Sound engineer Bruce Swedien told the Telegraph of his first day working on the album. “Quincy walked in… turned to us and he said, ‘OK guys, we’re here to save the recording industry.’”

Time Magazine reckoned he’d pulled it off. “For a record industry stuck on the border between the ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesizer pop,” they wrote, “Thriller was a thorough restoration of confidence, a rejuvenation.”

But there was more to Thriller than just the music.

The video to the title track, directed by John ‘Ghostbusters’ Landis, was the most expensive ever made - and according to a recent VH1 poll, the most memorable one of all time.

That video, along with those to Dirty Diana and Say Say Say, his duet with Paul McCartney, are all available on BT Vision Music now.

“With a pervasive confidence infusing the album as a whole,” said the New York Times in 1982, “Thriller suggests that Mr Jackson’s evolution as an artist is far from finished.”

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