No one was closer to Michael Jackson at the height of his creative powers than Bruce Swedien, the five-time Grammy winner who, with Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, formed the trio responsible for the sound of Jackson's records – records that topped the charts and shook the world.
Friend, co-creator, and colleague, Bruce Swedien was a seasonedrecording engineer–plucked from a job at legendary Universal Audi o in Chicago – when he began working with Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones on the soundtrack to
The Wiz, and he was the master technician who gave the records their sound as the trio progressed to Jackson's greatest triumphs,
Off the Wall and the iconic, history-making
Thriller, which revolutionized music and video and fixed Jackson in culture as the King of Pop.
In the Studio with Michael Jackson is the chronicle of those times, when everything was about the music,the magic, and the amazing talent of a man who changed the face