“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,” Mr. Musgrove told The Hollywood Reporter about the discovered cassettes.
Michael Jackson had accumulated more than 500 million debts when he died in 2009
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 indeed clarified to the Hollywood Reporter that these tracks are not “new” 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.
