Nile Rodgers recorded an album's worth of unreleased songs with the late DJ Tim Bergling – who performed under the stage name Avicii – shortly before the Swedish artist's death in April.

"Between Avicii and me, there’s at least 10," Rodgers told The Sun.

Rodgers, the 66-year-old hitmaker who produced David Bowie's Let's Dance and Madonna's Like a Virgin, had previously worked with Avicii on his 2013 track Lay Me Down.

“We laughed all the time," Rodgers said. "I used to say, ‘You put Tim and I in a room and we can do the entire Top 20 in, like, two or three weeks’.

“I’ve just been contacted about putting out my stuff, but I’ve got to see how it is because I was very close to Tim and the music we didn’t put out was extraordinary. He was blown away, as was I.

“But, because of what I know, which I will not talk about, I want to make sure that whatever work I do would be to the benefit of the people Tim would want that project to benefit.”