Paul Anka On The Time Michael Jackson Tried To Steal A Song From Him

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Paul Anka claims that Michael Jackson tried to steal a song they collaborated on back in the eighties. In a new interview, Anka says that Jackson was interested in being on Anka’s 1983 record “Walk A Fine Line” so they met up to work on a song, but then things took a turn.

"I sent the tapes to Los Angeles for him to meet me there so we could put the rest of the band on,” Anka says. “They called me from there a couple of days later and said, ‘Mr. Jackson stole the tapes.'" Anka says Jackson also refused to record the song.

Anka went to his lawyers over the whole thing, but it turns out they were Jackson’s lawyers too, and they told Anka that with “Thriller” coming out Jacko didn’t “want anything else out there.” Anka noted, “I said ‘What? OK, boys, I see who’s more important. You’re getting sued. I’m out of here.'” Anka eventually got the tape back and left the law firm.

But it didn’t end there. In 2009 after Michael’s death they released the song “This Is It,” which was the song Jackson and Anka wrote together. Apparently Jackson had copied the tape, and Anka called his former lawyers. "It was very simple. I said, ‘I want half of everything or it’s not coming out,’” he shares. “ And we got what we wanted."

Source: Fox News