Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Songwriter Rod Temperton has passed away last week after "a brief aggressive battle with cancer," according to chairman of music ...

LONDON — Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics "Thriller," ''Rock With You" and many other hits, has died of ...

Rod Temperton, the British songwriter who penned hits for Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, and more, passed away at the age of 66 following a battle with cancer. Warner/Chappell CEO Jon Platt ...

Temperton, who died last week, wrote songs that were infectious, rhythmic and melodically dynamic. You may not recognize his name, but you're likely to know the hit songs he wrote. Rod Temperton was ...

For a foundational architect of late ’70s and early ’80s dance music and a crafter of more than a dozen Hot 100 Top 20 hits, Rod Temperton is striking in his anonymity. Largely, that’s by design: ...

Rod Temperton, the influential songwriter responsible for harnessing the power of disco grooves in service of precisely measured pop songs, may have been best known for his work with Michael Jackson ...

Temperton wrote some of the most iconic pop songs of the 1970s and '80s, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Rock With You." 'Thriller' Songwriter Rod Temperton Dies At 66 Rod Temperton has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com. Rod Temperton, perhaps best known for penning Michael Jackson's iconic track ...

Rod Temperton has been called pop music's "Invisible Man" because few knew his name. But his songs were megahits in the 1970s and 80s. Along with big hair, wide lapels and bell bottoms, his music ...

Rod Temperton, the songwriter best known for writing Michael Jackson’s hits “Thriller” and “Rock With You,” has died. He was 66. Jon Platt, the chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell, told BBC that ...

Michael Jackson, left, holds up his Grammy for Best Album of the Year as Quincy Jones looks on, in 1984. Rod Temperton wrote three of the hit songs for Jackson's smash album Thriller. Rod Temperton ...