It's been reported that Michael Jackson recorded musical versions of Scottish poet Robert Burns's work in the past.
Friend-of-Jackson David Gest apparently told the Daily Record that the former Pop God set up the recording sessions in his own California studio, after plans to make a musical based on Burns fell through.
Gest, who features on the album, said: ""Michael and I were originally going to do a musical on his [Burns'] life with Gene Kelly directing and Anthony Perkins as executive producer, but they both died - so Michael and I put all the poems to contemporary music in his studio in Encino.
"We did 'Ae Fond Kiss', 'Tam O'Shanter' and all that. We turned his work into show tunes. It is beautiful and I still have the recordings."
Former Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader also set Burns poems to music on her 2003 album 'Sings the Songs of Robert Burns'.
