The handover ceremony number 26 of the Grammy Awards They were held on February 28, 1984 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and broadcast live on television. The 1983 recordings were awarded and the big winner was Michael Jacksonwho was recovering from a burn while filming a Pepsi commercial.
At the end of the night, the King of Pop stayed with eight statuettesincluding Album of the Year and Record of the Year, for thriller. The ceremony had the highest score in history, with 51 million viewers.
The success of Thrillers
your album thriller It had been released on November 30, 1982 and was the best-selling album of all of 1983, with hits such as billyjean Y run away reaching the top of the charts, with video clips of intense diffusion on channels such as MTV. Even so, no one imagined that he would be the star of such a stellar night.
The latest single from thriller It had been the theme that gave the album its title. Like the previous six singles, it reached the Billboard Top 10 and had a hit video that returned the album to the top, adding 37 weeks at number one. Not surprisingly, he received 12 Grammy nominations.
An unusual public appearance
Michael Jackson’s public appearances were always carefully planned, and Grammy night was no exception: he showed up in a military jacket covered in blue and gold crystals, along with his famous diamond-encrusted glove. He walked the red carpet with model Brooke Shields.
By the end of the night, Michael had taken home so many awards that set a record that has never been surpassed: Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (for thriller); Record of the Year, Best Rock Vocal Performance – Male (run away); Best R&B Song, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (Billie Jean); Producer of the Year – Non-Classical and Plus Best Children’s Recording (for ET’s storybook).
The enthusiasm and joy was evident every time he took the stage. When she won album of the year, she invited CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff, who said “Michael is the man who showed us the way of music, youth, song and dance.” “.
Each of his figurines was dedicated to one of his idols, like Jackie Wilson, who died a month earlier. And the seventh time she went upstairs she took off her dark glasses, a promise she’d made to her friend Katherine Hepburn.
In his eighth win, he hugged Quincy Jones and did a historic footstep.
Four years later when he wrote his memoirs in book lunar walkhe said: “It was an amazing feeling to have worked so hard on something, given so much and achieved it. I felt like a long distance runner who was reaching the goal. I identify with those type of athletes because I know how much he I’m trained and I know what that moment means. I can share the same feeling.”
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Source: Clarin
