Videos
Jackson’s videos for the album Thriller helped transform a fledgling new musical medium, MTV, into a station flexing with worldwide prominence because his multi-million-dollar mini-movies became appointment television, particularly “Billie Jean” (above), “Beat It,” and especially “Thriller” (below). He also helped to exponentially raise the profile of other musicians who may have remained fringe stars such as Prince, Lionel Richie and Run DMC.