Bad (Michael Jackson song) version of the music video for "Bad" was released in August 1987, and broadcast as a CBS prime time special. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starred Wesley Snipes in one of his first appearances. The video, inspired in part by the film "West Side Story", which shows Jackson and a group of gangsters portraying a street gang dancing in a subway station. Michael Jackson wrote and recorded Bad in 1986. It was co-produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones, and was included on his seventh studio album of the same name. "Bad" was originally intended to be a duet
Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket The jacket he wore in the "Thriller" video, along with a copy of the black and white leather jacket he wore in one of the Pepsi commercials and in the dance rehearsal portions behinds the scenes of "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller", are among his best-selling jackets. Expensive counterfeits were mass-produced and often sold for over $500 to people thinking they were getting the real thing. Because of this mass counterfeiting and the profits it earned, in 1984 Jackson filed a lawsuit in New York City to prevent unauthorized copies of the jacket and his other merchandise. Michael Jackson's