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"(I Can't Make It) Another Day"

Date confirmed in François Allard and Richard Lecocq’s “Michael Jackson: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track” (“1999”)

Lenny Kravitz, writer, Chris Cadman’s “Michael Jackson the Maestro”

Lenny Kravitz confirmed in 2001, in an interview in Blender magazine, a song he had been working on with Michael – failed to make the final track listing of Michael’s album, INVINCIBLE. “Working with Michael Jackson was probably the best recording experience of my life,” said Kravitz. “He was totally cool, absolutely professional and a beautiful, beautiful guy – and let’s not forget, Michael is a musical genius.”

“Sky News” (September 15, 2011)

Lenny Kravitz has described working with Michael Jackson as "incredible" and praised him as a "perfectionist" who made him laugh.

As preparations for the King of Pop's tribute concert in Cardiff next month continue, Kravitz spoke to Sky News about working with the singer on the track, Another Day, which he wrote for Jackson.

"It was probably the most incredible collaboration I have ever done," he said. "I was so inspired by him as a child... working with him was fantastic."

"Here's a guy who's been doing it for all these years and he's not jaded, still a perfectionist, still driven, still comes into the studio and spends all day and all night until he gets it right and come in the next day and the next day."

"He's a very funny gentleman, we laughed the entire time we did it. He's really fun."

OWNER NOTE: Transcribe Lenny Kravitz SiriusXM interview (below):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBARnmjWOS0

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there's a track on the album called lo

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which features a guest spot by Michael

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Jackson mm-hmm I'm sure you can explain

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this well I worked with Michael years

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ago I wrote and produced a song for him

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called another day which ended up coming

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out on the Michael album after he passed

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it was intended for the invincible album

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but when they were putting the album

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together and they were sequencing it the

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people that were working with him

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thought that it was it was too rock and

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that album was was more mellow and beats

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and harmonies songs like butterflies on

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their it was beautiful so Michael hell

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did he kept telling me I'm gonna put on

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the next record because I love this

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track and you know in his tradition of

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be tits and dirty Diana's and you know

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the Michael Jackson type rock song this

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this fit that category what was you'd

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like to work with it's just really

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businesslike and not gonna ever say he

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was he was really fun he um he didn't he

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trusted me which was beautiful I mean he

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because he said okay I'm gonna come in

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in two days and you're gonna have

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something for me I am okay so I spent

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two days in the studio like working what

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am I gonna I don't have anything yeah

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what am I gonna do so I just really

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thought about him and I just started to

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channel his vibe and wrote that song and

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then he came in and I had the song they

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said okay teach me the song so I first I

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played in the song he he liked it and

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then he said okay teach me the song the

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phrasing I wrote out the words we went

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over the vocals and then he goes behind

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the glass into the room and he says I

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want to do this exactly the way you want

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it so if you wanted to hear that yeah so

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if I mess up stop me so he starts

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playing and I start singing the track

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comes on and within about three words he

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messed the melody up but I'm standing

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there next to but at the talk button

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right there

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am I really gonna stop Michael Jackson

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from singing like this is what I have to

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do sighs Michael no that's not how it

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goes

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yeah it goes like this lalalalala okay

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great

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music starts it does it again he messes

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up again so this happened for about 15

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minutes it was funny but he's like no no

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don't stop doing that I want to do it

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exactly the way you wrote it in the way

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you want then he got it and we we worked

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for we actually worked for a few days

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it's a lot of vocals a lot of background

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vocals and then on the last day where he

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had to do the ad-libs which were very

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high and very strong where he's like

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screaming doing that Michael like hi

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screaming gritty you know he he warmed

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up for about an hour he says you've got

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30 minutes and I'll be hoarse I won't be

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able to sing after that so get it now

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and make sure I get it right but point

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being is super professional hmm

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his you you know after all these years

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he hasn't lost the passion he hasn't

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gotten lazy I'm Michael Jackson I'll

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just you know do what I want whatever

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and it'll be great

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he still strived to be great and super

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funny really funny like cracking jokes

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laughed a lot yeah and for the skinny

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guy that he was I never saw anybody eat

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more food in my life