“He said, ‘We have this Michael Jackson tune.’ I looked at Quincy and said, ‘What does it need? Who should we…?’ Then he said, ‘Carlton’” Session legend Larry Carlton on how he ended up playing on a Michael Jackson hit

Left–Larry Carlton during a concert, 1989; Right– Michael Jackson performing on stage at the Carre Theatre - Destiny Tour.

Studio behemoth Larry Carlton’s guitar chops can be heard on seminal ’70s and ’80s records by the likes of Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Barbra Streisand, to name but a mere few.

However, one of his lesser-known contributions is his work on Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall record – specifically, on what would become one of Jackson’s Top 10 singles, She’s Out of My Life – making Carlton part of a very select group of guitar players to have ever worked with the King of Pop.