Did the moonwalk on live telly in '83 and every kid on earth spent the next week sliding into furniture.
Fun fact: He outbid Paul McCartney to buy the Beatles' song catalog for $47.5 million in 1985.
Somehow made playing as fast and angry as humanly possible into a thirty-year career, fair play.
Fun fact: Reign in Blood contains ten tracks and runs a total of 28 minutes and 56 seconds.