Janet [Jackson] came up. And at the end of doing ‘Control,’ John McClain — who was the A&R person on the record — came up to listen to what we had done, and he goes, ‘I just need one more [song]!’ So Terry pops a cassette in and says, ‘John, this is some stuff for our album.’ And about the third song in, John goes, ‘Wait!
That’s the one I need for Janet.’ That song became ‘What Have You Done for Me Lately.’ So it started her career and basically ended our album — or at least postponed it for 35 years.”After Jackson’s “Control,” Jam & Lewis began taking charge behind the boards for everyone from Mary J.
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