here's the real genius:
While working on the film
The Wiz, Jones met
Michael Jackson, who asked him to produce his upcoming solo record. The result,
Off The Wall sold a staggering 20 million copies and made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry. Jones' and Jackson's next collaboration
Thriller sold 50 million copies
[1]. Jones also worked on Michael Jackson's third solo album
Bad, which sold 30 million copies. After the
Bad album, Jackson and Jones went their separate ways so that Jackson could produce his later solo works by himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones
and then what happened???