I Just Can't Stop Loving You

July 20, 1987

I Just Can not Stop Loving You is a pop ballad by Michael Jackson duet with Siedah Garrett. It was coupled out on 20 July 1987 as the first single from the album Bad advance. The song reached # 1 on the Billboard 200 as well as in many other countries and received a gold award in the United States. It was the first of five consecutive number - one singles from the album Bad. In Germany and Switzerland the song reached number 2 in Austria 5th place

Appeared posthumously in 2012 a re-release as a single from the album Bad 25

History

The written piece by Jackson himself wanted to record with singers like Barbra Streisand or Whitney Houston this first. Aretha Franklin and Agnetha Fältskog also ( ABBA) were considered. But all had other commitments. The Jacksons producer Quincy Jones protege Siedah Garrett came into the game as they had co-wrote Man in the Mirror.

In the original, the song has a longer spoken intro. This was, inter alia, omitted on many compilations and other bathroom items.