Cassettes with around fifteen unreleased Michael Jackson songs were found in an abandoned storage unit north of Los Angeles, the Hollywoood Reporter.
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). “I was listening to these recordings and I got goosebumps because no one had ever heard that before. Listening to Michael Jackson talk and joke was really, really cool” 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 said cassettes does not mean also owning the rights to them.
The entity has indeed clarified to the Hollywood Reporter that these tracks are not “news» and that there are original recordings «located 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 “Thriller,” the 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.
Par Le360 (with AFP)
12/14/2024 at 7:59 a.m.
