AUDIENCE: Posthumous releases

Rap artists such as 2Pac and Biggie Smalls are 2 striking examples of growing, but already long-established trend for the music industry to release 'new' material after a singer/artist's death; Elvis' estate continues to mushroom with endless 'new' releases and compilations 34 years after his death, while Bob Marley and Jim Morrison continue to successfully sell truckloads of albums. Then we have the anniversary re-packaging of Nirvana's Nevermind which has been all over the media in October 2011.

Back catalogue is big business, but so is creating new albums from demos and rehearsal material, which has happened with The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to take two examples.
These are just my own examples; read more in the article below from http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/31/amy-winehouse-posthumous-album

Bottom line: the artists aren't available for filming any new video material any more than they are for your productions, another useful point to raise to argue the case that yours is a realistic, 'real-world' production.

Amy Winehouse is the latest to give us songs from beyond the grave

The secret of posthumous albums is to allow the departed artist some dignity – but unfortunately that doesn't always happen

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• • Dorian Lynskey Monday 31 October 2011



Amy Winehouse … recent songs have been padded out with covers and alternate takes.




The mystery of how much music Amy Winehouse managed to record in the five years between Back to Black and her untimely death looks to have been solved by the tracklisting of her "new" album Lioness. A handful of recent songs have been padded out with cover versions, alternate takes and unreleased songs stretching back to 2002. Of necessity it's a thing of threads and patches.