Released as a single in 1983, "Beat It" went on to dominate the charts, reaching the number-one spot in five countries. The track has since achieved multi-Platinum status, certified eight times ...

No matter what kind of music you listen to, everyone knows the song “Beat It” by pop icon and overall creepy weirdo Michael Jackson. The third single off of Jackson’s sixth solo studio album Thriller, ...

Michael Jackson’s Thriller -era guitarist says Beat It was “too metal” before producer Quincy Jones stepped in.

How the late producer and composer Quincy Jones saved this iconic Michael Jackson hit from its heavy metal fate.

Jackson wanted a rock track for Thriller – and Lukather says Jones had to step in to stop the song from entering fully ...

But in the meantime, Michael Jackson had the MTV dance-floor to ... despite the fact that “Billie Jean” was a bigger hit song. “Beat It” also represented another step in Jackson’s ...

And lo and behold, when I got there, there's Quincy, there's Michael Jackson and there's engineers ... out Van Halen was the guitarist on "Beat It" as the song roared to the top of the charts.

Not exactly. But in Grammyland, nothing is simple.

By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson is ... of other all-time-classic Jackson videos with more than one billion YouTube views, including such beloved hits as “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “They ...

When Jackson and Jones sought to revisit the sound they experimented with on Beat It, they turned to the Billy Idol guitarist ...