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"Burn This Disco Out"

Date range confirmed in Mike Smallcombe’s “Making Michael” (“Temperton was recording an album with his band in a New York studio in the spring of 1979 when he got a call from Quincy, who wanted him to write some funky disco tunes for Michael… [Temperton]: ‘They booked the studio in Los Angeles at the weekend when I wasn’t working, and I flew in over the weekend to cut the tracks.’... After cutting the rhythm tracks Temperton returned to New York, where he completed the lyrics, before flying back to Los Angeles the following weekend to record vocals with Michael. Background vocals were recorded on the Saturday afternoon, and the three lead vocals were done the next day… The three songs Temperton submitted for the album, ‘Off the Wall’, ‘Rock With You’ and ‘Burn This Disco Out’, are all disco themed.”)