Our Favorite Songs

Celebs pick their top MJ tracks

Alicia Keys, Musician
"I Can't Help It"
I just love the bass line and chords of that song; it just puts you in an immediate zone — that yearning and that desire that's in his voice. I believe Stevie Wonder wrote that song, and it's just a beautiful culmination of the emotion of music

A.R. Rahman, Oscar-winning composer
"Man in the Mirror"
You look in the mirror and change yourself, and then the world will change. I love that thought

Stevie Wonder, Musician
"Human Nature"
When I first heard it I was over at Quincy [Jones'] home and...

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