The Classic Metal Show: Do you still get royalty checks for that? I imagine you do.
Stevens: "Actually, I don't. I never got paid for that. I didn't write the track. I came in and played on it. Then Eddie Van Halen and I did the NAMM show together in the next couple of days.

I asked him, 'hey man, what did you ask for on 'Beat It'?' He said, 'ah, man, the kind of publicity you get from that kind of stuff you can't put into financial terms.' So, I never made a penny off that." - more on this story

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