The Jacksons Ben ( Triumph Tour Live Memphis) 1981

MidSouth Coliseum Stadium July 8, 1981 , TriumphWorldTour, TheJacksonsFOREVER, MJJFOREVER CREDIT : Anderson P. Songs BEN STORY : Osmond would later be quoted in the Huffington Post about the song: Well, interestingly Ben was written for me. Michael and I would talk about this all the time. Its funny, because we eventually ended up laughing at this one. I will never forget, we stayed up to like two in the morning, laughing about the fact that I had a hit about a puppy and he had a hit about a rat. What have the artists said about the song At his 2007 induction in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, songwriter Don Black said of Ben: When it came to writing about a rat, I said, You cant write about a rat. I mean, Im not going to use