Quincy Jones Talks Thriller And The Wiz

Quincy Jones has talked about his time working with Michael Jackson.

In an interview with Billboard to mark his 80th birthday and forthcoming induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the celebrated producer, who worked with Michael Jackson on his albums ‘Off The Wall’, ‘Thriller’ and ‘Bad’, says he met the King Of Pop while making 1978 ‘Wizard Of Oz’ adaptation ‘The Wiz’.

“I said, ‘Michael, look, you don’t even have a song in the picture yet. I don’t want to think about that. Let’s get you a song’. He was only on ‘Ease On Down The Road’, that’s all we had. He was so curious, inquisitive. He knew everybody’s dialogue [in the film].” he continues “I was thinking about the range of his voice. That’s the stuff you do, the architecture of your production. Michael was so smart and intuitive. He just hooked onto everything and watched everybody. Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr, James Brown. We put our backgrounds together and we did it.”