Michael Jackson was set to release his Thriller album in 1982, but while he’d already proven himself as a solo success with 1979’s “Off the Wall,” the recording industry was in a major slump.

However, it was his work on Thriller, Michael Jackson's game-changing behemoth of an album, that kicked off his trilogy of collaboration with the King of Pop – which also encompassed 1987's Bad ...

Quincy Jones first met Michael Jackson in the early 1970s at Sammy Davis Jr.’s house in Los Angeles, when the 12-year-old was still a bubble-gum soul singer leading his brothers in the Jackson 5.