Tuesday May 12 BY LISA GUTIERREZ The Kansas City Star
Someone missed a great marketing opportunity here. Would it not have been more appropriate to release the new Michael Jackson posthumous album, “Xscape,” on Easter Sunday?
For Michael lives again on Tuesday.
Nearly five years after his death, eight tracks of his vocals recorded from 1983 to 1999 – right after “Thriller” – are coming to fans and dance floors in the form of his second posthumous album of studio recordings.
The studio recordings have been set to new music from Timbaland and Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate and John McClain, the former A&M Records executive now co-executor of Michael’s estate, according to a Billboard cover story that details how producer L.A. Reid brought Michael’s music back to life. The plan got underway a little less than a year ago when Reid met for dinner with John Branca, Michael’s former adviser and lawyer and co-executor of his estate. more
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