Quincy Jones recalls producing Thriller with Michael Jackson in resurfaced interviewFoundation Interviews
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00:00In the beginning, it was clearly one of the editorial policies was no black music.
00:07It was only black and white.
00:08I mean, if you remember the hassles with Rick James, Super Freak, was trying to get on that.
00:17I remember we went down at Warner Brothers Villa with Steve Ross, who had just finished Michael.
00:24And we got this all down there and said, Michael's going on.
00:28And so, Billie Jean, Beavitt, and especially Turla, in a way, Michael and MTV wrote each other to glory.
00:38I mean, really wrote each other to glory.
00:40Because the videos, the standard has not changed since then.
00:45Britney Spears does the same thing, Madonna does the same thing.
00:48The foundation, the temperament was laid back then.
00:53The combination of dance moves.
00:55It's all of the stuff there.
00:58I just had a ten camera shoot on Turla.
01:03I mean, it was a night he shot it.
01:05Just the energy.
01:06And the song didn't make sense to anybody until the video was made.
01:11Because, you know, that's a lot of weird stuff on there.
01:14You know, with Benson Price, the king of terror.
01:19You know, doing the Edgar Allen Poe type rap in the middle of a pop record like that.
01:23People said, what?
01:25It was a year and a half after the record came out before we released Turla.
01:30It was a 14 minute video.
01:32It's insane, you know.
01:34And it was received like a future film when it was all around the world.
01:40It's exciting.