Forever, Michael Songwriting Credits by Michael Jackson

Forever, Michael is the fourth solo studio album by Michael Jackson, released in January 1975 on Motown Records, his final album on the label before the Jackson family's high-profile departure to Epic Records later that year, and a release that arrived as Jackson was transitioning out of adolescence and into the adult market. Jackson wrote none of the album's songs; the material came from professional staff writers including the Holland brothers, Sam Brown III, and Freddie Perren. The album represents the most polished production of Jackson's Motown solo period, with Hal Davis constructing arrangements that anticipate the sophisticated R&B-disco synthesis Jackson would fully achieve with Quincy Jones at Epic. 'We're Almost There' and 'Just a Little Bit of You' were the principal singles, both reaching the top twenty on the R&B charts and the latter breaking the top thirty on the pop chart. Forever, Michael is historically positioned as a transitional document rather than a peak statement: the framework of his most celebrated work, the Jones collaborations, the own-written material, the production sophistication, was still years away, but the commercial and artistic instincts that would drive that work were visibly developing.