4. Michael JacksonThriller
I remember the gatefold cover and I remember clearly the first time I heard it was summer and my parents opening up the doors and having friends round when I was younger. He was just the ultimate pop star and the music… it’s weird when you heard something like ‘Billie Jean’ for the first time, that the combination of sounds – soul, electro, etc – then sounded so fresh. How he’d go from funk soul on one track, then into something really poppy.
‘Thriller’, the song, isn’t actually my favourite. I prefer the rest of the album to it, funnily enough, but I think he made such a massive mark with this album. For me, that was his definitive statement.
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