Lady in my life

Das ist die Orginal Ursprungs Version. Sie wurde etwas gekürzt damit sie nicht zu langatmig wird und man fand sie glaub ich auch etwas öde dem Song fehlte was. Und wenn ich mich noch recht erinner war der Song für Off the Wall gedacht, steht glaub ich in der Quincy Jones Bio aber mein Kopf ist nicht der beste, bitte nicht schlagen wenn ich irre.

Hat etwas gedauert bis ich fündig wurde. Hab aber glaub ich nur etwas falsch verstanden wegen Off the Wall

This was it, the big moment: Rod, Bruce, Michael, his managers Feddie DeMann and Ron Weisner, and myself sat down and listened to the final test pressing of a record that was to be the follow up to "Off The Wall". It was a disaster. After all the great songs and the great performances and great mixes and a great tune stack, we has 24-karat sonic doo-doo. There was total silence in the studio. One by one we crept across the hall for some privacy; more silence ensued.

We'd put too much material on the record. To be really competitive on the radio, you need bug fat grooves to make a big fat sound. If you squeeze it into thin grooves, you get tinny sound. We had twenty-eight minutes of sound on each side; we knew there was nothing to discuss. Smelly would say, "Oh no, that's the jelly- that's what makes me want to dance," which would end the conversation every time. With vinyl, you had to be realistic; it had to be under nineteen minutes of music per side. This was now all about physics first, then music. On CD's it didn't matter, because it's digital. Deep down inside we must have known all this all along as we were working, but chose not to deal with reality in our fatigue and musical euphoria.

We were in trouble and tears were streaming down Michael's face. He said, "What do we do now?". "The Girl is Mine" single was already out in the marketplace and charting at number 2 with a bullet: the album was late. The record company wanted the masters that afternoon.

We told Larkin Arnold, "In its present state, this record is unreleasable".

We took two days off and in the next eight days we put it dead in the pocket, mixing one tune per day. Rob cut one verse from "The Lady In My Life" , and Smelly finally agreed to give up some of the jelly in the long, long, long intro to "Billie Jean".