Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2022 11:36:46 GMT -4
The Man,” Paul McCartney (1983)
Written by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
A year after Michael Jackson released his duet with Paul McCartney on the Thriller single, “The Girl Is Mine,” Jackson also had two songs co-written with the Beatle for his fourth solo album, Pipes of Peace, the duo’s duet hit “Say Say Say” and the lesser-known track “The Man.”
“The Man” was initially scheduled as the third single in 1984, following “Pipes Of Peace” and “Say Say Say” but was delayed following Paul and Linda McCartney‘s drug bust in Bridgetown, Barbados for possessing under half an ounce of marijuana.
The video features home video footage of Jackson, Paul, and Linda McCartney taken at the McCartney’s home and farm in Sussex, England in 1981.
“If you say ‘The Man,’ it can mean God, it can mean ‘Women, listen to your man,’ it can mean so many things,” said Paul McCartney of the track. “Later, I did a song with Michael Jackson called ‘The Man’ and again, it’s quite nice leaving things ambiguous: I’m sure for Michael, probably ‘The Man’ meant God.”
