Beat It
#7 on The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 1980s →Written by Michael Jackson for Thriller, with a guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen. The music video features Jackson bringing two gangs together through music and dance.
"Beat it" means get out of there. The song is about street violence, and the advice in the title is to walk away from the fight. Michael Jackson expla…
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