Can Jacko ever rest in peace? An album of 'new' songs he didn't want released hits the shelves and his family battle over his millions
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How ironic. In Breaking News, one of
the songs included on Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, he sings about ‘Everybody wanting a piece of Michael Jackson’.
Because 18 months after his death, the fight over Jackson and his legacy continues.
Next week, Michael, an album of ‘new’ material from the singer, is released. Made up of just a few of the hundreds of songs Michael recorded and discarded before his death from an ill-fated combination of prescribed drugs, it is the first release from the £125 million ten-album deal Michael’s estate made with Sony Records in March.
But the fights have already started, with his family and friends saying the perfectionist singer would never have wanted the songs to be released because they aren’t of a high enough standard.
‘As an unfinished product, Michael Jackson did not want them recorded,’ Brian Oxman, the Jackson family lawyer told me this week.
‘Sony were continually asking him to release these unfinished songs and he always said he did not want them put out. It was a huge bone of contention, but they hounded him.’
the songs included on Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, he sings about ‘Everybody wanting a piece of Michael Jackson’.Because 18 months after his death, the fight over Jackson and his legacy continues.
Next week, Michael, an album of ‘new’ material from the singer, is released. Made up of just a few of the hundreds of songs Michael recorded and discarded before his death from an ill-fated combination of prescribed drugs, it is the first release from the £125 million ten-album deal Michael’s estate made with Sony Records in March.
But the fights have already started, with his family and friends saying the perfectionist singer would never have wanted the songs to be released because they aren’t of a high enough standard.
‘As an unfinished product, Michael Jackson did not want them recorded,’ Brian Oxman, the Jackson family lawyer told me this week.
‘Sony were continually asking him to release these unfinished songs and he always said he did not want them put out. It was a huge bone of contention, but they hounded him.’
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