New Michael Jackson album released

Mon Oct 26 2009 07:40:26

A new Michael Jackson album has been released, kicking off a week of celebrations of the late singer's life.

The two-disc record, This Is It, contains songs included in a documentary film of the same name about the singer.

The movie gets simultaneous premieres around the world later this week.

Jackson died in June aged 50, just weeks before his 50-date comeback concerts were due to start in London.

The first album disc boasts the original masters of some of Jackson's biggest hits, arranged in the same sequence as they appear in the film.

The second disc contains previously-unreleased versions of some of the artist's classic tracks and a spoken word poem titled Planet Earth.

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