Thriller (Michael Jackson album) the opinion that he was a "musical phenomenon" and that "in the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else". Jackson changed the way the industry functioned: both as an artistic persona and as a financial, profitable entity. His attorney John Branca observed that Jackson achieved the highest royalty rate in the music industry to that point: approximately $2 (US$ in dollars) for each album sold. As a result, Jackson earned record-breaking profits from compact disc sales and from the sale of copies of the documentary, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller", produced by Jackson
Peter Gabriel (1982 album) the fifth season of "The Americans" in the episode "Crossbreed." It is the third appearance of a Gabriel tune in the series, the first being "Games Without Frontiers" in the season one finale "The Colonel" and the second being "Here Comes The Flood" in the third episode of season three, "The Walk In." Album Singles "Deutsches Album" (1982) is Gabriel's German-language adaptation of his fourth album. It was released simultaneously with the international edition in Germany. Gabriel's previous German-language album, "Ein deutsches Album" (1980), is mostly an overdub of its corresponding English-language version, "Peter Gabriel" (1980). In contrast, "Deutsches Album"