Okem said:I can't find it, but I remember watching one of those Classic Album type shows a few years back, about the Mj & Quincy era. It had some good stuff in it, like how Quincy used to call Mj "smelly" because Michael refused to ever swear and just said 'oh that's smelly'.
Those signature little flourishes, yelps or squeals the Mj did, used to drive Quincy crazy & he got so tired of telling him to cut them out, and Mj not listening, he bust into the studio and started to beat on him.
Or how everything to do with the recording of Thriller was done at a breakneck speed, including Quincy, Rod & Bruce Swedien staying up for 3 days straight (or something like that) mixing the whole album fuelled by caffeine & coke.
I interviewed Bruce Swedien just after MJ died. Amongst other things, I crapped out of asking him if the "no squeaks, motherfucker!" story was true, but he told me that, at the time The Girl Is Mine got to number one, they still hadn't finished the album, and there was a real panic to complete it.
Rod Temperton's catalogue may not be deep, but
take a look at what's in it.
My girl used to work for his publisher and she met him once. When they did the deal, which was a couple of months before MJ's death, they paid him a $2m advance. Unsurprisingly, he recouped it within one accounting period. She also said he dresses like a tramp. Rod Temperton may be many things, but "fly" is not one of them.
