You may remember that shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11th last year Michael Jackson recruited a team of pop’s finest – including Britney Spears, NSYNC and Destiny's Child – to record a charity ‘What More Can I Give’ to raise money for the families of victims of the attacks. The track was recorded, but, with the exception of one live performance, never surfaced. During Jackon’s public feud with Sony he blamed them for the delay, though label insiders claimed they had never officially agreed to release the single and blamed the delay on a fall out between producer Marc Schaffel and the Jackson camp when it came to light Schaffel had once made a pornographic film.
Now a New York radio station - WKTU-FM – has unofficially debuted the song and it has put it on their daytime playlist. The station’s programme director Frankie Blue is a longtime friend of Jackson, but he claims he didn’t get the track via Jacko. The song’s producer Marc Schaffel has confirmed at least 200 copies of the single were sent to the artists who participated and their representatives and that the song has since surfaced on the internet. "It's a loose train; there's no stopping it," Schaffel said. "But I would hate to see it out there not doing its intended purpose, which was to raise money for the victims of September 11th and children's charities."
The station actually played the track earlier in the year but was asked to stop airing it by Jackon’s people. But this time there has been no contact from any of the people involved in the project. "This song is a gift to the world," Blue told reporters. "Michael and everyone donated their time for it, and it deserves to be heard. Maybe this will give someone the push to put it out because now would be the time. After the second 9/11, we are coming together. People need a song like this right now."