Quincy Jones, the legendary music producer behind Michael Jackson, says that the late King of Pop plagiarized some of his hits.
“I hate to get into this publicly, but Michael stole a lot of stuff. He stole a lot of songs,” Jones said in an interview full of eyebrow-raising comments published Tuesday by Vulture, the culture site of New York magazine.
“The notes don’t lie, man. He was as Machiavellian as they come,” the 84-year-old music veteran said.
He specifically cited “Billie Jean” — a signature song off the Jones-produced “Thriller,” the top-selling album of all times.
Jones suggested similarities between the song and disco queen Donna Summer’s “State of Independence,” which was also produced by Jones and released several months earlier in 1982.
Few listeners would immediately associate the two songs, although both open and are built on unusually…
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