Unreleased Michael Jackson Tapes Discovered in Abandoned Storage Unit (Exclusive)

Some of the Michael Jackson and Bryan Loren tapes found in the storage unit. Courtesy of Gregg Musgrove

By Nicole Fell
December 12, 2024 4:29pm

When former California Highway Patrol officer turned stay-at-home dad Gregg Musgrove started “treasure hunting,” the 56-year-old certainly never imagined he’d end up with a king’s bounty — the King of Pop, that is.

A trove of cassette and DAT tapes containing unreleased Michael Jackson tracks were found in a storage unit deep in the San Fernando Valley. Musgrove’s journey to the tapes began when an associate contacted him about a storage unit he’d recently bought in Van Nuys. The unit once belonged to Bryan Loren, a music producer and singer (whose current whereabouts are unknown, according to Musgrove).

“I’ve gone to all the fan sites. Some of [the songs] are rumored to exist, some of them have been leaked a little bit,” Musgrove tells The Hollywood Reporter. “A couple aren’t even out there in the world.”

Musgrove’s full inventory list, pictured below, shows the collected tracks, along with snippets of other unreleased songs. Jackson, and presumably Loren, can be heard discussing the recording and creative process on the tapes. “I’m listening to this stuff, and I would get goosebumps because nobody’s ever heard this stuff before,” Musgrove says. “To hear Michael Jackson actually talk and kind of joke back and forth, it was really, really cool.”

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