The music business can be an unpredictable beast. Sometimes an amazing album arises out of the most unlikely of situations, while at others entire projects are abandoned, scrapped or lost. It might be down to tragedy, a collaboration that didn’t work out, an artist deciding to strike out in a different direction, or even the theft of the work in progress. Whatever the reason, there are plenty of wholly and partially completed albums that sadly never saw the light of day.
Here are a dozen records that we’re desperate to get our hands on…