Posted on 07/30/2010 12:17:35 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
New Michael Jackson Album In November
An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone. At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop's '80s peak. Jackson's manager Frank DiLeo told RS that he estimates that Jackson's vaults contain more than 100 completed and unreleased songs, including collaborations with Akon, Will.i.am and Ne-Yo. "There are a couple of songs we recorded for the Bad album that we had to cut that are just sensational," DiLeo said.
"Every time that [Jackson] recorded, he over-recorded. He would record anywhere from 20 to 30 songs for each album," former Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola told RS last year. Any of them could have been as big a hit as the ones that came out." One of the most noteworthy tracks was a Thriller outtake titled "Don't Be Messin' Around." Other candidates include any of the reported five songs that Jackson recorded with Will.i.am.
Last year, a pair of unreleased Jackson tracks, "Another Day" and "A Place With No Name," leaked, and recently Rodney Jerkins, who co-produced Jackson's 2001 album Invincible, revealed to VladTV that he's currently working on the collection.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, the album of never-before-heard Jackson songs will be the first in a 10-project, seven-year deal the Jackson estate inked with Sony Music in March 2010 — a $250 million pact that will also include reissues of Jackson's classic albums, new greatest hits sets, a DVD collection of all Michael's music videos and possibly a Cirque du Soleil show. The hybrid karaoke and dance simulator Michael Jackson: The Video Game is also expected out by the end of 2010.
I thought the estate paid off all of it’s debt and was well in to the black already.
Yep. It is all profit from here on out. The 2 months following his death resulted in enough cash to erase half of it, then the This Is It film had portions of it go towards it as well.
If he were in debt, why didn’t HE released these ‘oh so precious’ CD’s?
When he died he was 500M in debt to my knowledge. Last I heard his estate was something like 400M to the good already.
I’ve heard Michael Jackson has been very busy the last few months de-composing.
(rim shot)
He’s been in the recording studio since February of last year. The album is a departure from soft rock and R&B in favor of more avant garde instrumental music. The best track by far is “Weevils munching on what remains of my nose”.
OH YEAH don’t forget Elvis
Or Tupac Shakur that dude release album almost every year
When Elvis died, his manager Colonel Tom Parker was reported to have said, “This doesn’t change a THING”.
Gotta hand it to Joe Jackson, he beat that horse til it was dead, and then some.
Oh, puhleeeeze...
FMCDH(BITS)
I thought he was dead?.....
Tell it to the hand. I have no use for that freak dead or alive.
"Rape" is a green, leafy vegetable, similar to lettuce. "Child molestation," however, is not.
Who has charge of his estate? IIRC, it’s not his mom or family.
Don’t recall.
Good one!
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