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Janelle Borg

“I was expecting weirdness, but Michael wasn’t that way at all. He was very interested in my pedalboard”: Session legend Tim Pierce on working with Michael Jackson – and how the King of Pop turned out to be an unexpected gear nerd

Tim Pierce performs at the RockGodz Hall Of Fame Annual Induction Ceremony at The Canyon Club on October 27, 2019 in Agoura Hills, California.

Tim Pierce is a certified legend of the guitar industry. The veteran session player has lent his guitar chops to more than a thousand records – including Roger Waters’ Amused to Death, Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris, Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over, Whitney Houston’s Queen of the Night... and the list goes on.

Among the A-listers who recruited him for their records is the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, with whom Pierce worked on a number of occasions – including on 1991's Dangerous and 1995's HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I.

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