From Jackson's last-minute plan to scrap the video ... The secret MVP of the entire Thriller project is Rod Temperton — who is such a relentlessly low-key guy that both a biography and a BBC ...

Michael Jackson first rose to fame in the early ... Thriller' was written by Rod Temperton, the man behind Jackson’s solo breakthrough — and a disco classic The secret MVP of the entire ...

Together they helped Michael Jackson record some of the ... "Along with the late great Rod Temperton [writer of Thriller and Off The Wall], we reached heights that we could have never imagined ...

Sing: Thriller follows Buster (McConaughey) and his friends staging an elaborate version of the Michael ... Rod Temperton ...