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Gnagflow82 war falsch, da kam das Album raus, aber die US-Single wurde zumindest im Februar 83 veröffentlicht, bezüglich des Videos magst Du recht haben, habe ich mich halt auch mal geirrt.
Würde mal sagen: Dein Irrtum sitzt einen halben Blackout tiefer. Frag‘ einfach mal wahllos ein paar Passanten auf der Straße, wer den BJ- und wer den LRC-Clip aus den 80ern kennt und poste dann nochmal was zum Thema „wegbereitendes Zugpferd“. Dazu braucht’s nicht mal
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„The short film for Jackson’s „Billie Jean“ is considered the video that brought MTV, a relatively unknown music channel, into mainstream attention. It was the first video by a black artist to be aired by the channel, as they felt black music wasn’t „rock“ enough.[2] …
Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson’s record label, CBS, approached MTV to play the „Billie Jean“ video. Yetnikoff became enraged when MTV refused to play the video, and threatened to go public with MTV’s stance on black musicians. „I said to MTV, ‘I’m pulling everything we have off the air, all our product. I’m not going to give you any more videos. And I’m going to go public and fucking tell them about the fact you don’t want to play music by a black guy.’“[7] MTV relented and played the „Billie Jean“ video in heavy rotation.[7] With the airing of the video, Thriller went on to sell an additional 10 million copies.[22] The short film earned Jackson the Billboard Video Award for Best Overall Video and he was inducted into the Music Video Producers Hall of Fame in 1992.[17] …“
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