Michael Jackson‘s “Beat It” famously includes a guitar solo from Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen. An engineer who worked with Jackson said the solo was originally unbearably loud. Subsequently, he decided ...

In a 2009 Rolling Stone article, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump discussed the “Thriller” singer. Stump said he admired Jackson for not caring about genre. He noted the King of Pop made “Beat It,” which ...

In a recent American Songwriter article, we compared the similarities of Jason Aldean’s controversial single “Try That In A Small Town” to one of pop music’s most celebrated songs in history—Michael ...

Anthony Marinelli is the well respected synth expert and player with a long career programming and performing with some of the biggest musicians in the world. He's played on albums by the likes of ...