Subscribers to success. In the wake of the monumental cardboard “Thriller”, released on November 30, 1982, on which he collaborated, Paul McCartney signed a hit at the end of 1983 with his friend Michael Jackson: “Say Say Say”. The title was born in 1981, during a period that sealed the friendship between the two artists. It is recorded in the mythical studios of Abbey Road in London, under the direction of George Martin, the legendary producer of the Beatles, and integrates McCartney’s fifth solo album, “Pipes of Peace”.
The result lives up to these protagonists. The track fits perfectly with Macca’s style, as well as the inimitable style of the King of Pop, who relishes a collaboration free from the sometimes constraining influence of “Thriller” producer, Quincy Jones.
“Say Say Say” au sommet
A year following their duet on “The Girl is Mine”, the first single from the album “Thriller”, the two acolytes sign one of the biggest hits of the year 1983, ranking six weeks at the top of the singles chart in the United States, and stage their complicity in a music video for half a million dollars. A family-like video in which we find the wife of the ex-Beatles, Linda McCartney, and Michael’s sister, La Toya Jackson.