What's REALLY Going ON Volume 1, June 2014 Issue #6 | Page 51

WRGO SPECIAL INTEREST ARTICLES Revealed: Sony had Michael Jackson ‘s “Love Never Felt So Good” remixed in 2010 – it was meant for “Michael” album When XScape launched LA Reid said that finding the demo of “Love Never Felt So Good” and this sparking his interest in doing the entire project. This, we can exclusively reveal is a lie: Sony and The Estate knew about the demo four years ago: it was supposed to be on the ill-fated “Michael” album, instead of the “Cascio” tracks. The track was given to Giorgio Tuinfort in 2010 and the version heard on XScape is the result. According to the creators it is a completely Dutch production. Here is the story behind it: Composer Franck van der Heijden (Akon, Al Jarreau): “Of course we didn’t work with Michael in the studio, that is a misunderstanding – we’d have been thirteen or younger when he wrote it. The Power Sound Studio didn’t even exist back then!! Giorgio Tuinfort and I received this demo in 2010 and were given carte blanche to do what we liked with it. Guido had worked with Michael before and was in touch with his family about Love Never Felt So Good. The song was so good, we did not have to do much, except seeing how we could work a bridge into it. I composed the instrumental backing track in an afternoon with Giorgio, what you are hearing is a completely Dutch production, except for MJ’s vocals … When we finished the song disappeared for four years, we never heard anything about it, until last month. Giorgio called out of the blue, saying our song was out. I think I’m credited. I only read that it would be the lead single on Facebook. I see this as honoring Michael. I loved the sound of