![]() ![]() The incident caused irreparable damage to Jackson’s and Jones’ relationship. ![]() “I said, ‘Who’s gonna sing that to whom? Cause you ain’t singing that to me and I ain’t singing that to you, so right there we’ve got a problem.’ ” But the family member said that Michael “absolutely lost it” when Prince went public about the almost collaboration.Īsked in an interview why the song didn’t happen, Prince said: “The first line of that song is ‘Your butt is mine.’ The duet was then killed, although it’s unclear who did so. But he didn’t know that Quincy had agreed to give Prince top billing on Michael’s own song.” “So when Quincy got Prince to agree to the song, Michael felt that it would be good only because that’s what Quincy promised. “Michael kind of looked up to Quincy almost like he looked at Berry Gordy,” the family member said of the once-close relationship. Quincy Jones at his Bel Air home with a plaque celebrating 40 million sales of Michael Jackson's album Thriller, which Jones produced. Jones ultimately received the award but he and Jackson “fell out for good,” according to the family member, in 1987 after Jones arranged for Prince to duet with Jackson on the song “Bad.” He didn’t want to share the spotlight at all with Quincy Jones or anyone else.” So Michael Jackson allegedly went directly to Grammys officials and requested that any producer award go directly to him and not Jones - who, of course, was credited in the liner notes as the album’s producer along with Jackson.īob Jones, Jackson’s late spokesman, wrote in his 2005 memoir that “The King lobbied hard against Quincy getting that Grammy. It’s his music and everyone knows Michael’s sound - and ‘Thriller’ was all Michael Jackson,” the family source said. ![]() Back then, the musical pair disagreed on whether Jones deserved a shot at a Grammy for having produced the 1982 smash-hit album Thriller. Picture: Barry King/WireImageīut the fallout between Jackson and Jones really began more than 30 years ago, the relative said. Jackson’s relatives believe the feud with Quincy Jones goes back to the 1982 Grammy Awards. ![]()
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