Michael Jackson’s Thriller -era guitarist says Beat It was “too metal” before producer Quincy Jones stepped in.

Released as a single in 1983, "Beat It" went on to dominate the charts, reaching the number-one spot in five countries. The ...

No matter what kind of music you listen to, everyone knows the song “Beat It” by pop icon and overall creepy weirdo Michael Jackson. The third single off of Jackson’s sixth solo studio album Thriller, ...

How the late producer and composer Quincy Jones saved this iconic Michael Jackson hit from its heavy metal fate.

By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson is in rarified air ... Jackson videos with more than one billion YouTube views, including such beloved hits as “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “They Don ...

CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week they sent the debut single from “Thriller” to radio in October of 1982. Faced with the very real ...

“Quincy wasn’t even there, he was at Westlake doing overdubs on ‘Billie Jean’ while we were fixing ‘Beat It ... by himself, Jackson, Lionel Richie and producer Michael Omartian ...

Not exactly. But in Grammyland, nothing is simple.

Music producer Wack 100 revealed in a new interview that Michael Jackson beat the breaks off late-rapper Tupac Shakur in defense of Quincy Jones’s daughter Kidada Jones. Wack shared the story to ...