With the security door on Prince’s legendary purple vault finally cracked and the first of many posthumous releases gushing forth in the shape of the current gospel blues EP ‘Deliverance’, the formidable Class Of 2016 of deceased rock stars has begun to stake its claim on the title of greatest posthumous records ever. Here’s the 10 Prince has to beat.

Jeff Buckley, ‘Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk’ (1998)

Buckley himself would have been horrified that 1998’s ‘Sketches…’ would emerge in its current state, a compilation of four-track demo tracks from sessions for his second album that he’d scrapped as inadequately capturing his post-‘Grace’ direction. But having died during an impromptu swim in Wolf River on the day in May 1997 when his dream band arrived to put the tracks right, we’re left with the remnants of his recordings with Television’s Tom Verlaine at the desk and a shifting line-up of band members; an unfocussed but inspired collection of political garage rock, full-on R&B, polished grunge and spectral love songs.