I know Phil Collins and Shalamar ROBBED 1999 for hits. I have been wondering did anyone attempt to copy When Doves Cry or any other of his hits? If so what artist and song.

DecaturStone said:

I know Phil Collins and Shalamar ROBBED 1999 for hits. I have been wondering did anyone attempt to copy When Doves Cry or any other of his hits? If so what artist and song.

Also Michael Jackson's production team robbed 1999 heavily for the 'Thiller' album. It was Quincy's idea...

from Brian Banks (synthesizers): "It was late in the evening one night when we were working, and Quincy came to us. We all knew how ‘Thriller’ was going – they were trying to get Vincent Price, they were doing all this stuff – but he wanted this huge chord sequence."

He said, “There's this sound that I've got in my head. There's this underground, this new artist, that nobody's ever really heard of but he's great, he's hot, he's got this great song.” And he pulled out the album and it was Prince, '1999'. And you know the opening sound on that? Duh-da da, dur-duh-duh? Well, that was the sound – that big, bitey chord sound at the opening of '1999' – he wanted that, but bigger, for ‘Thriller’."