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Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979, by Epic Records. It was Jackson's first album released through Epic Records, and the first produced by Quincy Jones , whom he met while working on the 1978 film The Wiz .
John Lewis, author of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, noted that the "jittery, frenetic opening track" is the centerpiece of Off the Wall. [34] He concluded that "Jackson's falsetto hollers and frisky yelps serve as an obbligato to the lead line, punctuating Ben Wright's thrilling string arrangement and Jerry Hey's tight horn charts ...
"Off the Wall" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson, from his fifth album of the same name (1979). It was written by English songwriter Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones, and released by Epic Records as the album's second single in the UK on November 16, 1979 [1] and as the third single in the US on January 31, 1980.
Jackson's next two studio albums were Music & Me (1973) and Forever, Michael (1975). [12] In 1975, Jackson signed to Epic Records, and released his fifth studio album, Off the Wall, in 1979. [13] It peaked at number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart and spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
"Working Day and Night" was written by Michael Jackson and recorded for his studio album Off the Wall issued in August 1979. [1] The song was not released as a single, but as the B-side for "Rock with You" in the US, and B-side for "Off the Wall" in the UK. [2] The song has a tempo of 128 beats per minute, making it one of Jackson's fastest ...
Many officially unreleased songs had been scheduled, at one point, for release, through ways such as his six solo studio albums with music label Epic Records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995) and Invincible (2001) and the remix album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997). For ...
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah on January 24, 2016. [1] It was shown on the American television network Showtime on February 5. [2] The film was released along with a reissue of the original Off the Wall album on February 26. [3]
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