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It has been confirmed that, at one point in development, Michael Jackson brought a team of his musicians to be involved in the game's soundtrack - however, due to the scandals that arose around this point, this plan fell through. Whatever music that was completed ended up in the finished game. Howard Drossin would complete the soundtrack, which was later used in Sonic & Knuckles. Some similarities to Sonic 3 tracks to Jackson songs include:
- Carnival Night Zone, a few seconds of which bear a resemblence to a part of Jam.
- The credits theme of Sonic 3 (without S&K lock-on) shares almost identical chord-progression to Stranger in Moscow.
- Icecap Zone is similar to Who Is It, sped-up. Alternatively, some people think it bears resemblance to Smooth Criminal.
- The music of the Act 1 Badnik attack, as well as that of Launch Base Zone, features a highly digitized voice that could possibly belong to Jackson. The Badnik attack music was changed in Sonic & Knuckles, but the Launch Base music remained the same.
- Brad Buxer, Doug Grisby III, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross and Geoff Grace all lended their work to Sonic 3's soundtrack; all of the above worked with Michael Jackson at some point in time.
- A discography of another musician working on the game, Cirocco (appearing as 'Scirocco' in the Sonic 3 credits) lists a song 'The Water' as being composed by Michael Jackson and belonging to Sonic The Hedgehog.
