Michael Jackson en Sonic

De man is al een tijdje dood, maar hij blijft terugkomen in het nieuws. Al jaren gaan de geruchten dat Michael Jackson meegewerkt zou hebben aan verschillende gamesoundtracks. Een van die games zou Sonic The Hedgehog 3 zijn geweest. Volgens de componist van deze klassieker, Brad Buxer is dat waar. “I’ve never played the game so I do not know what tracks on which Michael and I have worked the developers have kept, but we did compose music for the game. Michael called me at the time for help on this project, and that’s what I did. And if he is not credited for composing the music, it’s because he was not happy with the result sound coming out of the console. At the time, game consoles did not allow an optimal sound reproduction, and Michael found it frustrating. He did not want to be associated with a product that devalued his music…”


Buxer bevestigde ook dat een gedeelte van die soundtrack zou terug zijn gekomen in de Jackson-hit Stranger In Moscow. “Yes, Michael and I had composed those chords for the game, and it has been used as base for Stranger in Moscow.”