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
1982 Demos Chuck Biscuits, tired of the group's legal battles, left in the winter of 1982. He was followed by guitarist Dez Cadena, who left in 1983 to form the band DC3. The recordings have never been officially released, but have been widely bootlegged. The band recorded demos of ten songs at the studio Total Access. Recording and mixing took one night. The lineup for the recordings never played together on an official album. 1982 Demos The Complete 1982 Demos is an unreleased set of demo tracks intended for a follow-up album to Black Flag's debut album "Damaged" (1981). The tracks recorded