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"In the Back"

Date range confirmed in “The Ultimate Collection” album liner notes (“Recorded 1994 - 2004”) and Mike Smallcombe’s “Making Michael” (The team worked on around 40 songs during the [“HIStory”] project; those which failed to make the cut include ‘Much Too Soon’, ‘Morphine’, Innocent Man’, ‘Is It Scary’, ‘In the Back’ and ‘Michael McKellar’.)

Brad Buxer, “Black & White” Magazine (translation by SegaLoco) (archived)

Black & White: Can you tell us about “In The Back”, appearing on The Ultimate Collection? It is a truly exceptional piece ...

Brad Buxer: I'm glad you mentioned this song because it's one of my favorites. This title is unbelievable and it proves once again how Michael was a genius ... Like Morphine, I play almost every instrument on this song, but all ideas are Michael. What a pity he did not write the words as such deserved to be completed 100%. It is also Beautiful Girl, by the way ... We worked so hard on In The Back ... We recorded a lot of parts that are not on the version you know. Bill Preston [legendary keyboardist who worked with the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Editor's note] is by example from the studio to play the organ. But Michael did not finally kept this part ...