Billie appears on one of Perry's guitars, which is dubbed The Billie Perry Guitar .

Assisted in this by Billie Holiday.

Billie Jean is kind of anonymous.

There were a lot of Billie Jeans out there.

They had one child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992).

This is evident on the songs Billie Jean , Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and Thriller .

Covered by modern artists, Billie Jean sealed Jackson's status as an international pop icon.

Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song In the End about his mother and her husband.

The song was written by Green Day, with lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong.

Billie Jean was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1989.

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, multi instrumentalist, and actor.

They have two sons, Tony and Roman, while Billie has another son from a previous relationship named Aaron.

In the cafeteria in Carquinez Middle School, ten year old Dirnt met Billie Joe Armstrong, with whom he bonded instantly.

Jackson wrote four songs for the record Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' , The Girl Is Mine , Beat It , and Billie Jean .

It also included a DVD featuring three music videos, the Billie Jean performance, and a booklet with a message from Jackson.

Cover versions The Bates version In 1995 German punk rock band The Bates covered Billie Jean on their album Pleasure Pain .

Referring to her Detroit roots and contemporary artist Michael Jackson, Madonna sang a verse of Billie Jean during Like a Virgin .

Background The song was composed by Green Day (with Billie Joe Armstrong writing the lyrics), and was co produced by Rob Cavallo.

Jones discussed Billie Jean and why it was so personal to Jackson, who struggled to deal with a number of obsessed fans.

She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.

years (1986 1993) In 1986, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 14 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children.

Background Jackson stated several times that Billie Jean was based on the groupies he and his brothers encountered while part of The Jackson 5.

Kristen Kemmer Shaw, another frequent opponent of King, said,For a time, I think I was as close to Billie Jean as anyone ever was.

It was created by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, Screw 32's Doug Sangalang, Green Day guitarist Jason White and Jim Thiebaud, professional skateboarder.

Lauper grew up in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens and as a child, listened to such artists as The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Billie Holiday.

Late at night, after hours of practicing, I would listen to Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday as the sounds of tango music would be creeping from my parents' stereo.

Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York City.

Jones also wanted to change the track's title to Not My Lover , as he believed that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King.

In Billie Jean , Jackson sings about an obsessive fan who alleges he has fathered a child of hers in Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' he argues against gossips and the media.

The popularity of his videos, such as Beat It and Billie Jean , helped toplace the young channel on the map , and MTV's focus shifted in favor of pop and R B.

Instead, a video was created using a scene taken directly from the film Glitter , where Billie Frank (played by Carey) sings the song at Madison Square Garden during her first sold out concert.

When Thriller and Billie Jean were searching to reach their market demographic, MTV and cable TV had a smaller market share than the much larger reach of broadcast television stations in the United States.

However, Earl and Billie argue about his list, and Earl eventually chooses the list over her, sending her into a rampage where she undoes the good things that he has accomplished to that point.

Billie Joe Armstrong has mentioned that some of his biggest influences are seminal alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, and that their influence is particularly noted in the band's chord changes in songs.

The album includes the ballads The Lady in My Life , Human Nature , and The Girl Is Mine the funk pieces Billie Jean and Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and the disco set Baby Be Mine and P.Y.T.

Playing in small clubs in the same year she recorded George Gershwin's I Loves You, Porgy (from Porgy and Bess ), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend.

The national broadcast TV premiere of the Thriller album's first video, Billie Jean , was during the week of Halloween in October 1984 and was the idea of Video Concert Hall executive producers Charles Henderson and Jerry Crowe.

Speaking of Insomniac , vocalist guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong noted, It did a lot better than I thought it was going to do...From the sound of it, we knew it wasn't going to sell as much as Dookie .

At the 2006 US Open, Maria Bueno was invited to attend the rededication ceremony of the USTA National Tennis Center as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, which took place on the first day of the event.

Held at the Queen's Club, in London, the first contest between Australia and the United States set the tone with Grand Slam champions Darlene Hard, Billie Jean King, Margaret Smith and Lesley Turner all proudly representing their country on court.

In 2008, the album was reissued again as Thriller 25 , containing re mixes that feature contemporary artists, a previously unreleased song, and a DVD, which features the short films from the album and the Motown 25 performance of Billie Jean .

Julie Heldman, who frequently played King but never felt close to her, said about King's personality,One of the reasons I've never gotten close to Billie Jean is that I've never felt strong enough to survive against that overwhelming personality of hers.

Reflecting back on the period, lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong told Spin magazine in 1999, I couldn't go back to the punk scene, whether we were the biggest success in the world or the biggest failure ... The only thing I could do was get on my bike and go forward.

A year after the album's release, Time summed up the three main singles from the album, saying, The pulse of America and much of the rest of the world moves irregularly, beating in time to the tough strut of Billie Jean , the asphalt aria of Beat It , the supremely cool chills of Thriller .

The band's influences include Defunkt, Parliament Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, The Misfits, James Brown, Gang of Four, Bob Marley, Big Boys, Bad Brains, Sly and the Family Stone, Ohio Players, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley, Deep Purple, The Beach Boys, Black Flag, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Fugazi, Fishbone, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Santana, Elvis Costello, The Stooges, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Devo, and Miles Davis.