When This Is It, the new Michael Jackson single, was released yesterday morning, Paul Anka claimed he was the co-writer of the 1983 song.
The litigious Mr. Anka threatened to sue, but Jackson's estate quickly gave him credit and said he would be awarded 50 percent of the song's profits. "They did the right thing," Mr. Anka was quoted as saying to Anthony McCartney who is an entertainment writer for the Associated Press "I don't think that anybody tried to do the wrong thing. It was an honest mistake."
Mr. Anka, who grew up on Bayswater Street in Ottawa, said the song was written round the time Thriller was becoming a worldwide sensation. The Associated Press notes that the way the song was put together is "...eerily similar to how the surviving Beatles took outtakes from John Lennon following his murder and added their voices and instruments to craft..." songs that were released as part of the Anthology project in 1996.
It reminds me of what Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker said when EP passed: "I owned 50 per cent of him when he was alive and I own 50 per cent of him now that he is dead."
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