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I got back into "Off The Wall" massively about five years ago and wrote a little piece about what a masterpiece it is.. it's a perfect melding of Quincy, Templeton and Jackson..but importantly, all three when you examine it. seriously, the demo of DSTYGE is rougher and far cooler as a dance track than the slicked up studio version and draws from the club sounds Quincy was far from. Templeton wrote some massively catchy pop but MJ brings something to it the other two come nowhere near on their own during the same period. On the demos I think he had Randy playing drums and Janet banging a glass with a stick while he sung and hit the rhodes.
I wasn't really into MJ by '88, Prince had long made him irrelevant.. ;)