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"Much Too Soon"

Date range confirmed by studio engineer Rob Hoffman (archived) (“[“Much Too Soon”] would have been recorded in the first few months of '94.”)

Rob Hoffman, studio engineer, “Gearslutz” forum (June 27, 2009) (archived)

One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. "Here's the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here's the second chord first note, second note, third note", etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57.

He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills.

Chris Cadman, author, “Michael Jackson the Maestro”

The early recording of ‘Much Too Soon’ from the HISTORY sessions in 1994 had Michael working on the song with local guitar player Jeff Mironov in the studio one day before recording it.