In 1983, MTV first aired Michael Jackson’s 14-minute “Thriller” video. In 1986, Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome an addiction to painkillers. In 1990, composer Aaron ...
CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week they sent the debut single from “Thriller” to radio in October of 1982. Faced with the very real p ...