Stevie Wonder that Wonder wrote and sang in the first person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. He also gained a No. 1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory". In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders". Wonder wrote the lyrics. In 1983, he scheduled an album to be entitled "People Work, Human Play". The album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for "The Woman
Girlfriend (Paul McCartney song) album. This proved to be another hit single for Jackson and one of his first recordings of a Paul McCartney song. McCartney and Jackson subsequently worked together on "The Girl Is Mine" from Jackson's "Thriller", as well as "Say Say Say" and "The Man", from McCartney's "Pipes of Peace". In 1985, Jackson acquired the ATV Music Publishing catalog (which held the rights to nearly every Beatles song) uncontested by McCartney. According to McCartney, they "drifted apart" after he talked to Jackson about getting a "raise" and Jackson did not act on it. Girlfriend (Paul McCartney song) "Girlfriend" is a song