Beat It
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Key facts
- B side
- "Get on the Floor" (US) "Burn This Disco Out" (UK)
- Released
- February 21, 1983
- Recorded
- October 1982
- Studio
- Westlake (Los Angeles, California) Hayvenhurst (Encino, California)
- Genre
- Hard rock dance-rock funk rock
- Length
- 4 : 18
- Label
- Epic
- Songwriter
- Michael Jackson
- Producers
- Quincy Jones Michael Jackson
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- single
- Genre
- dance-rock
- Country of origin
- United States
- Composer
- Michael Jackson
- Duration
- 4
- Performer
- Michael Jackson
- Lyrics by
- Michael Jackson
- Distribution format
- vinyl record
- Significant event
- 26th Annual Grammy Awards
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- publication date
- 1983-02-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- song
- title
- Beat It
- place of publication
- United States
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- single taken from the album or EP
- Thriller (album)
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Beat It" on YouTube Alternative cover
Audio sample
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beat It” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.