unreleased tracks from the king of pop found

The police officer, who discovered them, and the possible purchaser of the cassettes on which these songs are recorded should be the only ones to have the pleasure of listening to them. These titles are unlikely to receive wide distribution.

Cassettes with around fifteen unreleased songs by Michael Jackson were found in an abandoned storage unit north of Los Angeles, reported Thursday, December 12 Hollywoood Reporter (link in English), but these songs may never be released.

The discovery – including a duet with rapper LL Cool J – was made by Gregg Musgrove, a former police officer, in a storage unit that belonged to Bryan Loren, a music producer who worked with the king of pop and is now untraceable according to the specialist magazine. The recordings date back, according to the inscriptions on the cassettes, to the period 1989-1991, before the launch of the album Dangerous (1991) which notably included the title Black or White.

“I was listening to those recordings and I got goosebumps because no one had ever heard that before. Listening to Michael Jackson talking and joking was really, really cool.”Gregg Musgrove told The Hollywood Reporter about the discovered tapes.

These pieces will remain visibly unknown to the general public and will never be broadcast, according to the magazine. Because the Jackson Estate, which manages Michael Jackson’s inheritance, believes that owning the cassettes does not mean having the rights to them. The entity has in fact specified in Hollywood Reporter that these tracks are not “news” and that there are original recordings “being in safes” of the estate, according to a spokesperson.

Gregg Musgrove, for his part, hopes that his finds, which he will present to auction houses, will bring him more than a million dollars.

Michael Jackson has sold some 350 million records, including Thrillerthe most purchased album of all time, and won 13 Grammy Awards. He was 50 when he died on June 25, 2009 in the Los Angeles area.