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According to Jackson's longtime friend, the spiritualist and author Deepak Chopra, the singer was working specifically on a song about climate change.

Writing on The Huffington Post, Chopra said that Jackson had called him in an "upbeat, excited mood" on 24 June.

"The voice message said, 'I've got some really good news to share with you.' He was writing a song about the environment, and he wanted me to help informally with the lyrics, as we had done several times before," Chopra said.

"When I tried to return his call, however, the number was disconnected. (Terminally spooked by his treatment in the press, he changed his phone number often.)

"The demo he sent me lies on my bedside table" Deepak Chopra

"So I never got to talk to him, and the music demo he sent me lies on my bedside table as a poignant symbol of an unfinished life."

There is understood to be other unreleased Jackson material including a cache of 100 songs that one of the singer's biographers, Ian Halperin, has claimed Jackson made for his three children.

Halperin, author of Unmasked: The Michael Jackson Story, said before the singer's death: "He wants to leave them for his kids, a very personal legacy to them. I was told he will not let them come out now."

"I won't keep making music the way James Brown or Jackie Wilson did, where they just killed themselves" Michael Jackson, 2007

It's sad to read now, but this could have been Jackson's last album anyway. Jackson told Ebony magazine in 2007: "[I won't keep making music] the way James Brown or Jackie Wilson did, where they just killed themselves. I wish James Brown could have slowed down and been more relaxed and enjoyed his hard work."

Here is a clip of a supposed demo:

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