“It’s not technically hard - a third-grader can play these bits. But on the spot? That’s kind of the difference”: The guitarist on Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You on how he found the right moments to play his “little earworms”

Michael Jackson.

Quiz question: what was the lead single from Michael Jackson’s Bad album? The title track? The Way You Make Me Feel? Man in the Mirror? Smooth Criminal? Dirty Diana?

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong again, unfortunately: the answer, surprisingly, is I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, a duet with Siedah Garrett (the co-writer of Man in the Mirror, incidentally) that, on the vinyl, was tucked away in the middle of Side 2, but was released a month or so before the album, on 20 July 1987.