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Associated Press
The new album from Michael Jackson will be available for download within a matter of days with a series of deluxe packages to follow, according to sources close to the late singer.
"Michael was passionate about this project," said Jackson's assistant Roscoe Lee Goldstein. "He has been working on this for years and finally got it to a place where he was satisfied. He was sure it was going to put him back on the map. It has a lot of surprises."
The biggest surprise is that the new album is not at all new. Titled Resurrection, it was recorded in 1983 during sessions for what became the Thriller album. But the extra songs were cut because the record company didn't want to release a double album.
There are several duets, where Jackson was clearly pushing the envelope. Producer Quincy Jones recruited several up-and-coming singers to stir up the creative juices. Jackson wasn't always happy with these combinations. In one instance, Jackson thought he was going to get to sing with his hero Sonny Bono, only to find that he was sharing the mike with the singer of a new band called U2. And Jackson thought that Boy George, who was then riding up the charts with his own bouncy pop, was "creepy and effeminate."
Resurrection will begin as a single disc, with fancy new versions released every six weeks or so.
"Michael was bigger than everyone else in life," Goldstein said. "This will continue in death. We expect that the reissues, special editions and general plundering of his unreleased tapes will be on a wider, more comprehensive scale than any pop star who has died so far."
This is satire. In real life, Michael Jackson had overabundances of talent and human flaws. In real life, we are usually not allowed both.
