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10th Anniversary Essence Music Festival - Day 1

10 of Prince’s Best Deep Cuts

Prince's catalogue is as sprawling, diverse, idiosyncratic, and rewarding as any musician's in history, and we will only hear more of it as his estate…

Alfred Soto / April 21, 2017

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A Star-Studded New Prince Documentary Featuring Bono, Jagger, More Is In the Works

German film distribution company Ascot Elite Entertainment Group announced today that a new star-studded biographical documentary about Prince is due out next year in Europe. Screendaily…

Winston Cook-Wilson / November 29, 2016

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Watch Prince Cover David Bowie, Bob Marley in Concert

Prince held back-to-back concerts in Toronto on Friday night that had him performing 57 songs in total, including a cover of David Bowie's 1977 hit…

Colin Stutz / March 26, 2016

Prince Collaborators Reflect on 1987 Opus ‘Sign O’ the Times’

By the mid-80s, Prince was a global superstar thanks to the worldwide success of 1984’s Purple Rain. So when he started work on his…

Ron Hart / September 25, 2020

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Prince’s Estate Shares Previously Unreleased Song ‘I Need a Man’

We're less than 10 days away from the release of the massive Sign O' the Times box set that features over 60 previously unheard songs from Prince's…

Daniel Kohn / September 17, 2020

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Prince Estate Drops ‘Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through)’

Over the past few weeks, Prince's estate has steadily released a slew of unheard tracks from the prolific artist's vault. The songs will be on…

SPIN Staff / August 27, 2020

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Prince’s Estate Shares Unreleased ‘Witness 4 the Prosecution (Version 2)’

Prince's estate will release a massive Sign O' the Times box set later this year, and have been releasing a steady stream of unreleased tracks from the…

Daniel Kohn / August 13, 2020

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Hear Prince’s Previously Unreleased Song ‘Cosmic Day’

The Prince Estate went into the vault for another previously unreleased song, "Cosmic Day." The track was recorded on November 15, 1986, at Sunset…

Emily Tan / August 6, 2020

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Prince Estate Releases 1979 Version of ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man’

Prince's estate has just dropped the original version of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man," from 1979. The minimal-sounding demo…

Emily Tan / July 16, 2020

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Prince Estate Announces Bonkers Sign O’ the Times Reissue

The Prince Estate will be releasing an expanded reissue of Prince's 1987 double-album masterpiece, Sign O' the Times, which SPIN ranked as the third-best album…

Emily Tan / June 25, 2020

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