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#3 on The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 1980s →Written by Michael Jackson for Thriller, the lyrics describe a woman claiming the narrator is the father of her newborn son. Directed by Steve Barron, the music video features Jackson on a darkened city street with illuminated sidewalk tiles.
In early 1983, MTV was a rock channel that rarely played Black artists. Within weeks of one video's premiere, that would change — and so would everyth…
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