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Thriller (1982) — Cover

About Thriller (1982)

A system pulled from the biggest-selling record ever made — not its horror-film gore, but the glamour of the nocturnal street. Red zip-quilt leather glints under sodium light, a single rhinestone glove throws hard sparks, and the sidewalk itself lights up square by square in magenta and cyan under the beat. Everything is staged at night against blacked-out ground so the red and the sparkle carry all the charge. The rule is stillness and snap: stand on a dark street, hit the pose, and let one glove full of light do all the talking. Edges stay hard, surfaces stay glossy, and the grid is the lit pavement — bordered tiles that can glow independently, one accent at a time.

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Origin
Los Angeles, California
Era
1982–1984 (album released Nov 30, 1982; Thriller short film aired December 1983)
Key figures
Michael Jackson · Quincy Jones · Rod Temperton · John Landis · Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Movements
early-80s MTV music-video spectacle · post-disco pop · street-dance choreography · cinematic pop iconography

Thriller (1982) design spec

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OswaldHeadings
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