“ I think it’s dodgy to do something like that, McCartney said of Jackson’s move in the past. You wouldn’t catch them in a studio together ever again. (It cost Jackson $47.5 million.) However, it represented the end of the Jackson-McCartney collaborations. (Back then, Paul wasn’t a billionaire.)īut Michael Jackson had the cash to make such a purchase - and that’s exactly what he did. But according to multiple sources McCartney and Ono considered the price too high. And in the following decades the publishing rights bounced from one corporate entity to the next.īy the ’80s, McCartney and John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono had a shot - as did everyone else - at buying them once and for all. If you go all the way back to the first Lennon-McCartney songwriting contract (with Dick James), you’ll learn about another classic case of the artists getting screwed. Paul McCartney felt betrayed by Michael Jackson’s purchase Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney in the studio, 1980 | Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images Though McCartney’s had a chance to bid on the music himself, he considered Jackson’s purchase a “dodgy” move. In 1985, Jackson proved he’s listened to McCartney’s advice by buying the granddaddy of all publishing rights: the Beatles catalog. And that’s where McCartney told Jackson about the benefits of owning songwriting publishing rights. According to multiple sources, the two would hang out even outside the recording studio. “Say Say Say,” released the following year, became an even bigger hit for the pair.Īround this time, McCartney and Jackson had become quite friendly. That track, “The Girl Is Mine,” was a huge hit. But that was only the beginning of the collaborations between the former Beatle and the man who’d soon become known as the “King of Pop.”ĭuring the recording sessions for Thriller (the biggest-selling record of all time), the pair of icons sang one in the studio together. Read more: 8 secret songs we'll never get to hear 8.In the late ’70s, Michael Jackson did what thousands of artists had done in the past: He recorded a song written by Paul McCartney. There was a third song - 'Victory' - which is still unreleased. They also recorded 'State of Shock', which was later reworked as a duet between The Jacksons and Mick Jagger. One of these songs - 'There's Must Be More To Life Than This' - was later released on the Queen Forever album. Michael is known to have recorded several tracks with Queen legend Freddie Mercury in the 1980s. 'There Must Be More To Life Than This' (with Freddie Mercury)
He recorded it on only his second take, after it had been written by Rod Temperton in the taxi on the way to the studio. Horror icon Vincent Price performs a famous ‘rap’ in the song. Read more: 8 of the best duets from the 1980s 6. Its music video cost $7 million, which was by far the most expensive ever made at the time. This track was an aggressive attack directed at the tabloid media and their treatment of Michael throughout his career. Taken from the Bad album, the pair only ever performed it live together once, during the Australian leg of Jackson’s Bad tour. This song is somewhat similar to 'The Girl is Mine', in which it involves Michael and Stevie quarrelling over a girl. Every time someone plays these songs on the radio, or in live performances, I get paid." Whoops. "Every time someone records one of these songs, I get paid. "This is the way to make big money", he told Michael. While there, Paul apparently showed Michael a booklet that showed all the songs that he owned publishing rights for. Michael stayed at the home of Paul and his wife Linda during the recording sessions, and became friends with both. Produced by Beatles collaborator George Martin, this song was actually recorded before 'The Girl Is Mine', but was released a year later. Jackson and McCartney fell out a few years later after Michael bought the rights to most Beatles songs. Jackson said it was “one of my favourite songs to record” as there was “lots of playing, and throwing stuff at each other, and making jokes.” Bonus fact: Many members from Toto took part in the recording! That girl must not have had a particular type. The song features the pair fighting it out over the same girl.
The year before, Jackson and McCartney had duetted on the latter’s ‘Say Say Say’. Perhaps surprisingly, this pop ballad was the first single to be taken from Jackson’s Thriller. That must have been rather terrifying! 2. Before then, Siedah was a protégé of Jones's who co-wrote 'Man in the Mirror', and she didn't know that she would be singing the song until the day of the recording session.
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