On its title track, Jones brings a half-century of music to bear on its lavish, theatrical, yet still funky arrangement: it is like something from the music hall or vaudeville days, scaled up for the maximalist 80s.
A great music producer needs directorial vision something that came naturally to Jones since his time as an orchestral conductor as well as technological nous and an impresario's eye and ear for talent.
Quincy Jones's nose for a hit was even more sharply attuned here. He sniffed out gold in an unfairly flopped single by Chaz Jankel.
He also rinsed his Rolodex to bring together the backing choir of dreams, featuring Jackson, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder and around a dozen more stars.
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