MJ’s sound engineer finds 20 unfinished songs on his computer

HE may have been dead for six years but Michael Jackson is still causing a stir in the music industry as his sound engineer has claimed he’s found 20 unfinished songs on his computer.

Michael Durham Prince, who worked with Jackson from 1995 until his death, claimed he had discovered an album’s worth of tracks — but says no one is allowed to hear them.

Speaking to the French newspaper Le Parisien, Prince said: “I don’t have the right to write the song titles or to let people hear them for the moment.”

Months after Jackson’s death in 2009 from a lethal overdose of sedatives, the entertainer’s estate signed a $200-million deal with Sony recording company, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Under the agreement, Sony can bring out up to seven albums over a decade, including new or remixed Michael Jackson songs. Two posthumous albums have already been released, in 2010 and 2014, but Sony said that no others were currently in the works.

Prince explained that Jackson hadn’t sung the choruses for the tracks, so “someone would have to be found’ to perform them whenever they did get released, if Sony and Jackson’s family gave the go-ahead.”

Prince said he believes there would be further Michael Jackson albums in the future, “but for the moment, we are thinking more about bringing out new songs every six months.”

NASA has announced that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted “Earth’s bigger, older cousin” — the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.

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Nasa can’t say for sure whether the planet is rocky like ours or has water and air, but it’s the closest match found so far. The planet, which has been named Kepler-452b, is about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It’s about 60 percent bigger than Earth and is located in its star’s habitable zone — the region where life-sustaining liquid water is possible on the surface of a planet.