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Michael Jackson - Beat It

submitted by E_Nygma

1 decade 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

Some interesting facts:

Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo as a favor for Quincy Jones and was not paid.

Jackson wrote came up with the song when his producer, Quincy Jones, encouraged him to write something like "My Sharona," which was a huge hit for The Knack in 1979.

Michael Jackson is quoted in Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 songs issue as saying of this, "I wanted to write the type of rock song that I would go out and buy, but also something totally different from the rock music I was hearing on Top 40 radio."

When Jackson reunited with his brothers for 2 shows at Madison Square Garden, Slash from Guns N' Roses played guitar during the performance of this and "Black And White."

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ant

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Adding video to channels (80s) - requested by ant.

i came really close to adding this to the horrorshow channel

Seems to be dead. Here is an embed fix for it...

Sorry, but I think this ones *dead.

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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Awarding kwaran with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

My Sharona is one of the earlier and most faviourite song of MJ. Which brought him to the peaks of fame. In this song vitiligo patches of Jackson are clearly observed. But today he quitly change his appearance. but its style is not changed.

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dingens has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because dingens's points are already fully charged.

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