Steve Lukather has played on thousands of songs, including Beat It. He's obviously the go-to guy. Did you notice how many people are smoking in the video? You won't see that these days.
I know the Split Enz song, but didn't really follow them. Crowded House was some of the same guys.
I know Lush are more your thing.
This is from my favourite album called Split :) That was an accidental record library discovery as I liked the album cover.
I was just reading about this, he did most of it besides the shredding bit, I stand corrected.
It was painful to watch, cheesy as hell and too much noise over the music.., I am not a fan of that and these days that 'feature' seems to have gone away.