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Steve Lukather said in a recent interview that his original guitar part for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was too metal for Quincy Jones.

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“I played a bunch of really wild guitar parts, because I knew Eddie’s solo was on it,” said Lukather ... Jean’ while we were fixing ‘Beat It’. So we’d be on the phone and he ...

Turning to “Beat It,” Lukather recalled: "We did it backwards: Michael’s lead vocal and the Eddie Van Halen guitar solo were done with a couple of small overdubs but no click track.