original song written, composed, and performed by Michael Jackson
Key facts
- B side
- I Can't Help It
- Released
- September 7, 1987
- Recorded
- October 1986
- Genre
- Dance-pop funk
- Length
- 4 : 07 (album version) 8:22 (extended dance mix)
- Label
- Epic
- Songwriter
- Michael Jackson
- Producers
- Quincy Jones Michael Jackson ( co-producer</span>"}]]}'>co. )
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Bad
- Genre
- funk
- Composer
- Michael Jackson
- Performer
- Michael Jackson
- Lyrics by
- Michael Jackson
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- publication date
- 1987-01-01
- form of creative work
- song
- different from
- Bad
- title
- Bad
- language of work or name
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Music videos "Bad" (short version) on YouTube "Bad" (long version) on YouTube
"Bad" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on September 7, 1987, as the second single from his album Bad. It was written and composed by Jackson, and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It was influenced by a true story Jackson read about a young man who tried to escape poverty by attending private school but was killed upon returning home.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.