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"Eaten Alive"

Date range confirmed in Joseph Brennan’s “Gibb Songs” (“About May 1985”) and assessed by the fact that the second copyright registration on June 1, 1985 indicated “words and music in the choruses have been completely rewritten”, implying Michael had made his changes to the song before that date, and after the first “March 11” copyright registration.

Joseph Brennan, “Gibb Songs”

What happened here is that Diana Ross’s friend Michael Jackson listened to the demos, and decided that ‘Eaten Alive’ needed something else in it. Barry offered to share credit with Michael if he wanted to supply what was missing. Michael took away a cassette of the demo and sent a tape back a few days later. Maurice later described this new demo as Michael singing and playing keyboard with a drum machine. The second copyright registration, June 1, bears the note ‘words and music in the choruses have been completely rewritten’.