He said that the track could have been transformed into 12 different hit songs if ... world without Michael Jackson is a very, very different world. And I think we should all feel very blessed ...

But one that first leaps to mind is likely "Thriller," Michael ... After that, Jackson and Jones aimed to go bigger. “The impetus was to have every song be a hit,” Larry Williams, who played ...

All that would eventually change after “Thriller,” with the coming of Madonna, Michael ... was a bigger hit song. “Beat It” also represented another step in Jackson’s master plan ...