Beat It

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Written by: Jackson
Produced by: Quincy Jones
Released: Dec. '82 on Epic
Charts: 25 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

"I wanted to write the type of rock song that I would go out and buy," said Jackson, "but also something totally different from the rock music I was hearing on Top Forty radio." The result was a throbbing dance single with a watch-my-fingers-fly guitar solo provided by Eddie Van Halen.

Appears on: Thriller (Epic)

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