I Just Can't Stop Loving You

"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
Single by Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett
from the album Bad
B-side	"Baby Be Mine"
Released	July 20, 1987
Recorded	May 1987
Genre	Pop; R&B;
Length	4:25 (album version); 4:17 (7" w/ spoken intro); 4:12 (7" w/o spoken intro);
Label	Epic; CBS;
Songwriter(s)	Michael Jackson
Producer(s)	Quincy Jones; Michael Jackson (co.);
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"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a 1987 duet ballad by American singers Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett, and was released as the first single on July 20, 1987, by Epic Records from his seventh album, Bad. The song was written by Jackson, and co-produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. 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 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". Garrett remains known primarily for her work with Jackson to this day.

"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, R&B Singles and Adult Contemporary charts, making it the first in a string of 5 number-one singles from Bad. It was Jackson's second number-one song on the Adult Contemporary chart after "The Girl Is Mine" with Paul McCartney.^[2] "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" was released without an accompanying music video. Jackson and Garrett later recorded "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tú" (loosely translated to "All My Love Is You"), a Spanish-language version of the song, with lyrics translated by Rubén Blades, and "Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous" (loosely translated to "I Don't Want The End Of Us"), 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.

^ Michael Goldberg; David Handelman (24 September 1987). "Is Michael Jackson For Real?". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 324.

[1] Michael Goldberg; David Handelman (24 September 1987). "Is Michael Jackson For Real?". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

[2] Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), page 324.

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