Steve Lukather has played on thousands of songs, including Beat It.

I was just reading about this, he did most of it besides the shredding bit, I stand corrected.

Did you notice how many people are smoking in the video? You won't see that these days.

It was painful to watch, cheesy as hell and too much noise over the music.., I am not a fan of that and these days that 'feature' seems to have gone away.