“When I got the call to record with Michael, I was thinking, oh, there’s going to be an entourage, and the monkey’s going to be jumping around…”: How guitarist Steve Stevens recorded Dirty Diana with Michael Jackson

Steve Stevens.

Like Eddie Van Halen before him and Slash after him, Steve Stevens was a hotshot guitarist hired by Michael Jackson to add some six-string fireworks to a classic hit.

And as he tells MusicRadar, he was surprised how the recording session with Jackson went down.