Bill Bottrell

William A. Bill Bottrell is an American record producer, songwriter and musician, probably best known for his Grammy Awardwinning collaborations with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Electric Light Orchestra and Sheryl Crow.

In 1974, he married Elizabeth Jordan, whom he met in high school. That same year, Bottrell got his first job in music, as an engineer at California Recording Studio in Hollywood. In 1978, he moved over to Soundcastle Studios in Silverlake, where he met Jeff Lynne, who eventually hired him to engineer for ELO. In 1979 his daughter Adrianne was born. The 1980s were spent freelance engineering between Europe and Los Angeles, with clients including The Jacksons, ELO, Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Harrison, Starship and Tom Petty. Daughter Laura was born in 1983. He worked for Michael Jackson at his house in Encino between 1984 and 1986, recording tracks for Bad. In 1988, Bottrell coproduced his first record, Aliens Ate My Buick by Thomas Dolby. In 1989, Michael Jackson asked him to coproduce, engineer and write songs for his album Dangerous, cowriting and rapping on the albums biggest hit, Black or White. The song spentweeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fa

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