Steve Stevens, Billy Idol's guitarist. He is also well known for having co-composed and played the "Top Gun Anthem" from the film Top Gun. In the music video, Stevens appears with Jennifer Batten (currently of Jeff Beck Band). Stevens had black hair and Batten had blonde hair. She was part of Jackson's touring band for the Bad and Dangerous tours, but does not play on the recording.
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Jennifer Batten, who was Jackson's guitarist for years played on the song but the solo was performed by Steve Stevens. Steven is an accomplished player who is best known for being the long time guitarist and song writing partner of Billy Idol as well as a short lived solo project called The Atomic Playboys.
He did play Beat It at Michael Jackson's 30th anniversary concert. He also played other original songs for Michael like Give Into Me and Dirty Diana.
Michael Jackson's music does not belong to a certain genre, but incorporates a wide variety of genres. Mainly R&B and Pop, Dance, Funk, Hard Rock (Dirty Diana), Rock, even Gospel and Soul (Man in the Mirror), Opera (Earth Song).Michael Jackson played Pop, he was known as the "King of Pop".
Well, Dirty Diana is not really a person. He said in an interview one time that Dirty Diana was a song that desrcribed all the women that hung out backstage and smoked and got into alot of trouble.
A number of different guitarists have worked with him. Beat It; Eddie Van Halen. Dirty Diana; Steve Stevens. Black or White, Give In To Me, Privacy, D.S and Morphine; Slash. Bad, Dangerous and HIStory tours; Jennifer Batten. This Is It rehearsals; Orianthi Panagaris.
I heard that Eddie Murphy had a crush on Michael Jackson