Untold Stories Behind Some Of Music’s Most Popular Albums
Michael Jackson’s Thriller Wasn’t The Original Name For The Album
Photo Credits: Epic – CBS/Michael Jackson
Released on November 30, 1982, Thriller has become one of the most popular albums of all time. Could you imagine living in a world when the album wasn’t called Thriller? Well, the album was almost called Midnight Man. The task of naming the album was given to songwriter and musical arranger Rod Temperton. After coming up with over 300 possible manes for the title, he finally settled on Midnight Man.
Then, the next morning, he woke up with the word “Thriller” in his head. He claims that “Something in my head just said, this is the title […] You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ‘Thriller.’
