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“We’d all heard the myth of Miles Davis – the scary Miles Davis. But he liked us skinny little white boys!”: How the jazz legend ended up on a Toto record

Miles Davis.

The members of Toto have played on hit records for many other artists over the years - including the biggest selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. But in 1985 the roles were reversed when jazz legend Miles Davis played trumpet on Toto’s song Don’t Stop Me Now.

It happened when Miles was working on his album You’re Under Arrest and planning to record a version of Human Nature, a song featured on Thriller and co-written by Toto’s keyboard player Steve Porcaro.

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