Probably the last Michael Jackson post for a while

...'cause I'm already (back to) feeling finished with him, especially since there seems to be an unspoken agreement that we will now forget the last 25 years of his life. But, this is worth reading, even though it does the same:

Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson.

Excerpts:

I also tried to steer him to songs with more depth, some of them about real relationships -- we weren't going to make it with ballads to rodents (i.e. "Ben"). And Seth Riggs, a leading vocal coach, gave him vigorous warm-up exercises to expand his top and bottom range by at least a fourth, which I desperately needed to get the vocal drama going. We approached that record like we were going into battle. "Off the Wall" would sell 10 million copies.

Rod also brought in "Thriller" and Michael sang his heart out on it. At one point during the session the right speaker burst into flames, which none of us had ever seen before. How's that for a sign?