Last updated: Friday, July 24, 2009

BROWN USED THRILLER AS 'BLUEPRINT' FOR NEW ALBUM

Rocker IAN BROWN is adamant his next album MY WAY will be his best to date - because he used MICHAEL JACKSON's record-breaking THRILLER LP as his 'blueprint'.

Ian Brown performing at Fuji rock festival - Day 2. Naeba, Japan - 26.07.08

The former Stones Roses frontman is set to release his sixth solo studio album this year (09), and he was determined to ensure every track is perfect.

During studio sessions, Brown used Jackson as his inspiration, and set out to produce an album to match the singer's iconic 1982 record - which is the biggest selling album of all time, spawning seven hit singles.

And Brown is convinced using Jackson's work will bring him luck - because he completed recording on the day the tragic superstar died from a cardiac arrest.

He tells NME, "We thought, 'Let's make an album that's got no flab, where every song is a single'. So Thriller was our blueprint.

"Every time we wrote a song we didn't think was strong enough, we just scrapped it. And we mastered it on the day that Michael Jackson died too, so I'm taking that as a good omen."

Brown has proved he's a huge Jackson fan in the past - the singer sang Thriller and Billie Jean for his 2005 compilation album.

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Source: WENN

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