Inside the Bad sessions and the split with Quincy Jones

 In the summer of 1985, Michael began working on demos and ideas in earnest for his next album, which became Bad. He was joined at his Hayvenhurst home studio by the four-man crew of Matt Forger, Bill Bottrell, John Barnes and Christopher Currell, who became known as the ‘B-Team’. Together they worked without the influence of the ‘A-Team’, people such as producer Quincy Jones, engineer Bruce Swedien and songwriter Rod Temperton. Over the course of the second half of 1985 and most of 1986,