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“Billie Jean” was released on this date in 1983, the second single from the “Thriller” album. Michael says he knew it was going to be a hit but that he was maybe a little too focused on making the song: “One day during a break in a recording session I was riding down the Ventura Freeway with Nelson Hayes, who was working with me at the time. ‘Billie Jean’ was going around in my head and that’s all I was thinking about. We were getting off the freeway when a kid on a motorcycle pulls up to us and says, ‘Your car’s on fire’. But I was so absorbed by this tune floating in my head that I didn’t even focus on the awful possibilities until later.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y