"All the way through, I never stopped the tape once. He'd just go through the whole song and say ‘give me another track'. We did that nine times and then he said ‘I’m outta here’": Steve Porcaro on the two unreleased songs he wrote with Michael Jackson

Steve Porcaro at the Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary Premiere at The Grammy Museum on November 21, 2024.

Steve Porcaro, the producer and synth player who played on Thriller, has been talking about his work on that album and two unreleased tracks he co-wrote with Michael Jackson.

This was in 1982, right at the end of the project. Appearing on the Think Like A Synth podcast, which is hosted by Anthony Marinelli – who played on Thriller himself – he described how those tracks came about.