Thriller (song)

Thriller is one of Michael Jackson's songs in the albums, Thriller and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. This is Michael's only song that has a spoken bridge by Vincent Price. Thriller was recorded by Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. The song is 5 minutes, 57 seconds in length. It was released on October 31, 1983 by Epic Records. This song is one of Michael Jackson' s signature songs. The song was originality titled Starlight. The demo of the song would be leaked

Thriller appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! in the episode Count Koopula in a vampire transformation scene. It also appeared in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (console game).

Credits

• Written and composed by Rod Temperton and Michael Jackson
• Produced by Quincy Jones
• Featuring: Rap by Vincent Price
• Synthesizers: Greg Philinganes, Rod Temperton and Brian Banks
• Synthesizer programming: Anthony Marinelli
• Guitar: David Williams
• Trumpet and flügelhorn: Jerry Hey
• Trumpet and flügelhorn: Gary Grant
• Saxophone and flute: Larry Williams
• Trombone: Bill Reichenbach
• Vocal, rhythm and synthesizer arrangement by Rod Temperton
• Horn arragement by Jerry Hey
• Effects by Bruce Cannon and Bruce Swedien

Lyrics

• [ 1st Verse ]
• Its close to midnight,
• Something evils lurking in the dark
• Under the moonlight,
• You see a sight that almost stops your heart
• You try to scream,
• But terror take the sound before you make it
• You start to freeze,
• As horror looks you right between your eyes
• Youre paralysed
• [ Chorus ]
• Cause this is thriller, thriller night
• And no ones gonna save you from the beast about to strike
• You know its thriller, thriller night
• Youre fighting for your life, inside of
• Killer, thriller, tonight
• [ 2nd Verse ]
• You hear the door slam,
• And realize theres nowhere left to run
• You feel the cold hand,
• And wonder if you ever see the sun
• You close your eyes,
• And hope that this is just imagination, girl
• But all the while, you hear a creature creepin up behind
• Youre out of time
• [ Chorus ]
• Cause this is thriller, thriller night
• There aint no second chance to against the thing with the forty eyes, girl
• Thriller, thriller night
• Youre fighting for your life, inside of killer, thriller, tonight
• [ Bridge: ]
• Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
• [ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/Du ]
• Theres no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
• (Theyre open wide)
• This is the end of your life
• [ 3rd Verse ]
• Theyre out to get you
• Theres demons closing in on every sight
• They will possess you,
• Unless you change that number on your dial
• Now is the time,
• For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
• All through the night, Ill save you from the terror on the screen
• Ill make you see
• [ Chorus ]
• That this is thriller, thriller night
• Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
• Thriller, thriller night
• So let me hold you tight and share a
• Killer, thriller, killer, thriller, here tonight
• [ Chorus ]
• Cause this is thriller, thriller night
• Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
• Thriller, thriller night
• So let me hold you tight and share a
• Killer, thriller-
• [ Rap Performed By Vincent Price ]
• Darkness falls across the land
• The midnight hour is close at hand
• Creatures crawl in search of blood
• To terrorize y'alls neighbourhood
• And whosoever shall be found
• Without the soul for "getting down"
• Must stand and face the hounds of hell
• And rot inside a corpse's shell
• The foulest stench is in the air
• The funk of forty thousand years
• And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
• Are closing in to seal your doom
• And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver
• For no mere mortal can resist
• The evil of the thriller.
• (Maniacal laughter)

Charts

The song debuted on the Hot 100 in the United States in February 1984 at #20 – the chart's highest new entry in 13 years (John Lennon’s "Imagine" also debuted at #20 in 1971). Despite this achievement, the song only peaked at #4 in March 1984, but gave Michael his seventh top ten hit from Thriller – a new record from one album.

Ironically, the second and third highest debuting songs on the Hot 100 in the 1980s, both of which involved Michael Jackson - "Say, Say, Say" (debuting at #26) and "We are the World" (debuting at #21) - did manage to be #1 songs.

On the Billboard R&B singles chart in the United States, it peaked at #3, and barely made the top ten in the United Kingdom's pop chart, peaking at #10, and managed to enjoy an 18-week run on that nation's Top 75 chart. In Canada, the song peaked at #3, while the song went to #1 in Belgium, France and Spain.

RIAA Platinum Record (USA million seller).

In HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

This song is the ninth song on the first disc in this album.

In Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (console game)

In the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Moonwalker, Thriller doesn't actually appear in the video game as a level background music, but if the player does the dance move in stages 3 (Woods) and 5-3 (The enemy hideout), Michael will do some dance moves from Thriller, and a part of Thriller plays once he dances. This only happens in the REV00 version of the game.

Gallery

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Live in Bucharest 1992

Live at Wembley 1988

Thriller live in munic with the classic red jacket

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Micheal posing in his thriller jacket for this is it

External Links

Official Music Video

The album version of this song