Maybe it was a sign when the speakers in the studio burst into flames.
It was late October 1982, and a full battalion of musicians and technicians were working around the clock at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, putting the finishing touches on Michael Jackson's new album. The disc was the highly anticipated follow-up to 1979's Off the Wall, which had established him
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