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Dead artists with a lot of unreleased recordings

Posted on 10/5/25 at 4:56 pm
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34133 posts
Posted on 10/5/25 at 4:56 pm
Spin off from the Waylon Jennings thread:

When both Michael Jackson and Prince died, they supposedly had hundreds of songs recorded that the family was going to release over time.

I haven’t seen anything. Perhaps there’s been a song or two I missed. But I don’t think so.

Eddie Van Halen also supposedly has a huge store of music.

There’s has been talk of Alex Van Halen and Steve Lukathor finishing some of it, but again- nothing.

Wolfgang Van Halen seems stubborn to a fault about not playing, recording or releasing any of his dad’s music. He won’t even play a single Van Halen song live. He’s only done it a few times, most recently at a Taylor Hawkins tribute with the Foo Fighters.

Of course when you are the only heir of a $100 million plus estate, you can take the high road. Purity is expensive and he can afford it.

Wolf has been accused of releasing Eddie’s music as his own on Mammoth albums.

Mammoth mostly sucks, so not sure I believe it.

This post was edited on 10/5/25 at 5:04 pm
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
46743 posts
Posted on 10/5/25 at 5:08 pm to
Bob Dylan likely has several albums worth of unreleased original material, most of it is probably really good. It’s amazing how prolific some songwriters are.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
41654 posts
Posted on 10/5/25 at 5:50 pm to
Tupac released 10 albums after he died
Posted by ActusHumanus
St. George, Louisiana
Member since Sep 2025
717 posts
Posted on 10/5/25 at 6:47 pm to
Not quite the same, but I'm so sick of the found tapes for the Beatles. Yes, you recorded Paul's bad takes or playing the guitar on the toilet. That doesn't mean SXM needs to play that shite on Classic Vinyl. Save that shite for the Beatles channel.
Posted by A12 Oxcart
On the float out in the Belt
Member since Dec 2022
1039 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 7:57 am to
If there was anything good from Eddie, you'd think they would have used some of it for ADKoT. Most of that album was rehashed demos.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
12830 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:08 am to
quote:

When both Michael Jackson and Prince died, they supposedly had hundreds of songs recorded that the family was going to release over time.

I haven’t seen anything. Perhaps there’s been a song or two I missed. But I don’t think so.


What? You missed a lot.
Posted by Obi-Wan Tiger
Fulshear TX
Member since Jan 2004
8123 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:59 am to
quote:

Eddie Van Halen also supposedly has a huge store of music.


Huge VH fan…just want to get that out there before I say this so it won’t sound like I’m a hater. But Eddie and Alex were/are such liars that I have a hard time believing anything either of them ever said about all these hours of music they supposedly had “ready to go” and it was always “insert singer here”’s fault that it went unrecorded. Certainly there may be stuff out there that could be salvaged into something but I’m not believing it to the extent they used to talk about.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34133 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:09 am to
quote:

What? You missed a lot.


Wow.

Like I said, perhaps I missed it and I guess I did.

Were these released with any hype? Are they any good?
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
15911 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:36 am to
Supposedly Prince has enough recorded and unreleased material to fill several albums for years.

All owned by his estate and the record labels can't touch it. He was really one of the smartest musician business wise, and damn talented too.

Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
12830 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:38 am to
quote:

Were these released with any hype? Are they any good?


I caught them because Spotify highlights stuff like this. Some really good newly released material and a lot of stuff they didn't need as is the case with most of these posthumous releases. I think I found like three good songs on that vast Springsteen release of new material recently.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
17580 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 10:03 am to
Elvis

I just recently read that Priscilla is somehow in control of this portion of his catalog. She's going to cash in big.
Posted by PJinAtl
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2007
14050 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 3:30 pm to
Conway Twitty reportedly had maybe an album or two worth of unreleased material from the 60s. Speculation was that it was lost in the Universal Studios back lot fire, but recently the list of impacted artists has shrunk to around 20 or so.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
12830 posts
Posted on 10/11/25 at 8:14 pm to
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