If history has taught us anything, it's that death is one of the best things can ever happen to your career. Elvis, John Lennon, Tu-pac, Aaliyah - all artists who have gone on to become big sellers (in some cases, bigger earners than in life) from beyond the grave.
So yesterday's announcement by Michael Jackson's former manager that a ten track CD of never before heard Jackson recordings will be released this November, was hardly unexpected. The release and success of 'This Is It' in cinemas and on DVD and CD have already proved that MJ is still a massive global brand ripe for the exploiting so an announcement of more music has been eagerly anticipated by fans.
It's safe to say this new music will not be the last we hear of Michael Jackson in the coming years. Drip feeding us only ten tracks certainly suggests there is much more to come - especially as there are rumours of more than one hundred unheard Jackson songs.
I'm interested to see how Sony decide to promote the project and what the songs themselves are like, hopefully they will genuinely be 'new' recordings and not a bunch of tracks left on the cutting room floor from previous MJ albums.
We'll see what happens come November.
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