How Quincy Jones Helped Michael Jackson Craft the Smash 'Thriller' — and How the Epic Music Video Almost Didn't Happen From Jackson's last-minute plan to scrap the video and his feud with ...

Jackson then revealed that he “copied some of the steps” from “America” into his legendary 1982 music video for one of his biggest hits “ Thriller.

But one that first leaps to mind is likely "Thriller," Michael Jackson 's spooky funk-pop smash that served as the title track to the most commercially successful album in history.

Michael Jackson was set to release his Thriller album in 1982, but while he’d already proven himself as a solo success with 1979’s “Off the Wall,” the recording industry was in a major slump.

Rita Moreno tells PEOPLE the origin of some of Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller” dances started with her.