Get Your Thrillercast: 25 Years of Michael Jackson’s Thriller

In the event of bringing people closer to celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Legacy Recordings teamed up with SpringWidgets to create Thrillercast, a year-long podcast event featuring legends of music, film and culture taking you behind the scenes to their own experiences with Michael and hearing the album for the first time. Thrillercast launches on February 12th with Run-DMCs Darryl McDaniels.

The 40-episode podcast will run throughout 2008 and feature icons of music and screen, including Akon, Nick Cannon, Kanye West, Chris Brown, will.i.am, Quincy Jones, Imogen Heap, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels, turntablist DJ Spooky as well as many more special guests. Each guest sat down with us to discuss their experiences with Thriller, the various singles and videos, and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. Their stories are each unique and profound and singular in their message: Thriller was a game-changer across the board.

The free podcasts start today with “Episode 0,” a teaser of what’s to come. As illustrated below, the Thrillercast Widget is embeddable on websites and blogs, as well as some social media sites such as MySpace.