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 for every album sold, and was making record-breaking profits from sales of his recordings. The videocassette of the documentary "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" sold over 350,000 copies in a few months. The era saw the arrival of novelties such as dolls modeled after Jackson, which appeared in stores in May 1984 at a price of $12. Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli writes that ""Thriller" stopped selling like a leisure item—like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit movie—and started selling like a household staple." In 1985, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" won a Grammy for Best Music