The Funk of 40,000 Years: When Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Video Premiered
The iconic short film took MJ's album to a whole new level.
As MTV started beaming into more households through the early '80s, viewers were seeing and hearing music that they might not have caught elsewhere, and some acts were able to reach a completely new audience. In 1983, few bands benefited from the exposure quite like ZZ Top, that "little ol' band from Texas" who broke big on the pop charts with their album Eliminator.