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"Come Together"

Date range confirmed by Bill Bottrell (“This was 1985”)

Michael Jackson, Adrian Grant interview (February 13, 1998) for “Making HIStory” book

Adrian Grant: Why did you include your cover of the Beatles song ‘Come Together’ on the HIStory album?

Michael Jackson: I was coming home from church and my engineer was fooling around with that song, which I hadn’t asked him to do, but when I heard it I said “WOW! This is my favorite Beatles song.” So I just went in and in one take started singing it. We kept it kind of raw and funky. It was just spontaneous, but I knew I wanted to do something with it.

Bill Bottrell, co-writer, studio engineer, Gearslutz forum (July 20, 2009) (archived)

During the Bad sessions, Michael asked me to drive him home to Westwood one night. During the drive, we played lots of Beatles songs he had compiled on a tape, he was pretty interested in my opinion, and I told him we should pick Come Together.

Within a couple days I had thrown a track together playing guitars and using some crude midi stuff. (This was 1985) I never intended that track to be released that way

They put it out without informing me, and I still don't know what the credits say.

Chris Cadman, author, “Michael Jackson the Maestro”

“Come Together” was recorded in 1985 and some live audience loops were added from the Victory Tour.