"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" | ||||||||||||||
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Single by Michael Jackson & Siedah Garrett | ||||||||||||||
from the album Bad | ||||||||||||||
B-side | "Baby Be Mine" | |||||||||||||
Released | July 20, 1987 | |||||||||||||
Format | 7" / 12" / CD single | |||||||||||||
Recorded | May 1987 | |||||||||||||
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Length | 4:25 (album version) 4:17 (7" w/ spoken intro) 4:12 (7" w/o spoken intro) |
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Label | Epic | |||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Michael Jackson | |||||||||||||
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"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" | ||||
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Single by Michael Jackson featuring Siedah Garrett | ||||
from the album Bad 25 | ||||
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Released | June 1, 2012 | |||
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Recorded | May 1987 | |||
Length | 4:25 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Writer(s) | Michael Jackson | |||
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"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a 1987 duet ballad by Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett, and was the first single released from his seventh album, Bad. The song was written by Jackson, and co-produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, R&B and adult contemporary charts.
The song became the first of five consecutive number-one Hot 100 singles from the Bad album. It was Jackson's second number-one song on the AC chart (his first, coincidentally, had also been a duet: 1982's "The Girl Is Mine" with Paul McCartney). It was released without an accompanying music video.
The presence of Garrett on the track was a last-minute decision by Jackson and Jones, after Jackson's first two choices for the duet, Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, both decided against participating. Garrett, a protégé of Jones's who co-wrote another song on Bad, "Man in the Mirror", did not know that she would be singing the song until the day of the recording session. It became her first hit since Dennis Edwards' 1984 song "Don't Look Any Further".
Jackson and Garrett later recorded "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tú", a Spanish-language version of the song, with lyrics translated by Rubén Blades, and "Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous", a French-language version, with translation by Christine "Coco" Decroix. All three versions are featured on the 2012 reissue album Bad 25. The original English-language version was re-released as a single in 2012, as part of the Bad 25 release.