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“This Is It” is finally HERE! Now streaming on MichaelJackson.Com!

Now Streaming, New Michael Jackson Song “This Is It” – Exclusively Available On Forthcoming Album

The album, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, is a companion piece to the Michael Jackson’s This Is It Movie and features the music that inspired the film, demo recordings and two versions of the previously unreleased song, “This Is It”.

CD Available Worldwide October 26 & 27. Vinyl available November 10th.

ETA : I think the world trying to listen in has frozen the stream … anyway, here’s an embedded MP3 clip for those of you for whom the video won’t play… (and a DL link for a web rip MP3 for those who want “This Is It” on rotation on their iPods now, but be sure to buy the real thing on Oct 26!)

ETA 2 : Read this interesting article on the NY Times – New Michael Jackson Music Gets Midnight Release By BEN SISARIO

Based on a tape Mr. Jackson left behind containing only his piano and vocals, a full arrangement was built, complete with swelling strings and his brothers’ backup vocals. The song is to run during the closing credits of the new Jackson film, perhaps not coincidentally called “This Is It.”

If “This Is It” is any guide, the provenance of leftover Jackson songs might be difficult to establish. It is not clear when the song was written or recorded, Mr. Stringer said, and Sony originally believed that the tape was made around the time of Mr. Jackson’s 1991 album “Dangerous.” But it could have been much earlier, perhaps even as early as the album “Off the Wall,” from 1979.

“We just found the song,” Mr. Stringer said. “It was titled ‘This Is It.’ It was in a box, and we listened to it.”

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