Cassettes and audio tapes containing recordings of 12 songs never recorded by Michael Jackson were found in a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley, California, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
It was a former California Highway Patrol officer, Gregg Musgrove, who located this little treasure in a storage unit that one of his associates had just acquired.
However, it turns out that this unit was once owned by Bryan Loren, a producer and musician who participated in the recording of the album Dangerouspublished in 1991. These compositions therefore date from 1989 to 1991. One of them would be a collaboration between Michael Jackson and the rapper LL Cool J where we hear the king of pop rapping.
“I looked at all the fan sites. There are rumors that some of these songs exist, others have been leaked. Some of them are not even known to the public,” Musgrove told the Hollywood Reporter.
The estate blocks the broadcast
However, the chances are slim that we will ever hear these songs. Gregg Musgrove approached the trustees of the Michael Jackson Estate, who refused to purchase the tapes. The Estate, however, indicated that the master tapes of these songs are kept in its vaults and that the exploitation rights belong to MJJP Records.
In other words, the owner of these cassettes cannot make commercial use of them.
That won’t stop its current owner, who believes they’re worth more than a million dollars, from offering them to the four main auction houses with a view to selling them to a collector.
