unreleased songs discovered by chance in a storage unit in California

Cassettes with around fifteen unreleased songs by Michael Jackson were found north of Los Angeles, the Hollywoood Reporter reported Thursday, December 12. The discovery – including a duet with rapper LL Cool J – was made by Gregg Musgrove, a former police officer, in a storage unit once owned by Bryan Loren, a Music producer who worked with the King of Pop.

The recordings date back, according to the inscriptions on the cassettes, to the period 1989-1991, before the launch from the album Dangerous (1991) which notably included the title Black or white.

“I listened to these recordings and I got goosebumps because no one had ever heard that before. Listening to Michael Jackson talk and joke around was really, really cool,” Musgrove told The Hollywood Reporter of the discovered tapes.

These pieces will remain visibly unknown to the general public and will never be broadcastaccording 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 indeed specified to the Hollywood Reporter that these tracks are not “new” and that there are original recordings “located in safes” at 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.

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