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  • Wings:Girlfriend
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  • eng
Subject
  • 1980 singles
  • 1978 songs
  • Epic Records singles
  • Michael Jackson songs
  • Pop ballads
  • Music published by MPL Music Publishing
  • Rhythm and blues ballads
  • Paul McCartney songs
  • Song recordings produced by Quincy Jones
  • Songs written by Paul McCartney
  • Wings (band) songs
  • Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney
abstract
  • %22Girlfriend%22 is a song written by Paul McCartney. McCartney thought of the song as one that Michael Jackson might like to record, and mentioned this to Jackson at a party in Hollywood. Jackson had stated in interviews with the music press in the 1970s that he was a fan of The Beatles and the chance to record a McCartney original helped to inspire his next project. However, McCartney ended up recording it himself with his band Wings, and it was issued in 1978 on the album London Town. Subsequently, it was suggested by Quincy Jones as a possible track for Jackson to record for his 1979 album Off the Wall. Jones was unaware that the song had been written for Jackson in the first place. Jackson's recording omitted the middle eight heard in McCartney's version. It was issued as a single in 1980, in the UK only, as the fifth and final single from the Off the Wall album. This proved to be another hit single for Jackson and one of his first recordings of a Paul McCartney song.McCartney and Jackson subsequently worked together on %22The Girl Is Mine%22 from Thriller, as well as %22Say Say Say%22, and %22The Man%22 from Pipes of Peace. In 1985, Jackson acquired the ATV Music Publishing catalog (which held the rights to nearly every Beatles song) uncontested by McCartney. According to McCartney, they %22drifted apart%22 after he talked to Jackson about getting a %22raise%22 and Jackson did not act on it.
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  • Paul McCartney
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  • GBCCS0100509
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  • Paul McCartney
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  • 2709
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  • 5664800
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  • english
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  • EMI
  • Parlophone
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  • June 1979
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  • Wings:Girlfriend
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