Prince

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There is a petition which is trending and gaining momentum to make Paisley Park a National Historic Landmark. Fans worldwide can and are signing it.All Prince fans know that he loved Paisley Park. Please sign.

#PaisleyPark #HonorPrince #HonorPaisleyPark

Here is the link;
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-designate-prince-rogers-nelson-s-paisley-park-as-a-national-historic-landmark

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My dearest Shaynel,

I see the Sign “O” the Times and you need to know that I Adore you and I Wanna Be Your Lover. When we met in The Same December in 1999 on Alphabet St., it was Automatic--I could tell that you were one of The Beautiful Ones—probably The Most Beautiful Girl in The World. I’ll never forget thinking that U Got the Look in your Raspberry Beret and Diamonds and Pearls. While we stood in the Soft and Wet Purple Rain, I felt Delirious but I knew that I had A Case of You, and that someday I Would Die For 4 U. It was sort of a Controversy because I was...

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Pop superstar Prince showed his appreciation for his young collaborator Janelle Monae by sending a singing telegram and flowers to her dressing room at a recent gig.

The Purple Rain hitmaker collaborated with soul star Monae on a track for her new album The Electric Lady and he celebrated the record's release this month (Sep13) by arranging a special surprise for the singer.

In video footage filmed for a Revolt Tv documentary, Monae is seen looking shocked to find a young man in her dressing room holding a card and flowers and singing to her.

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Twitter has been served a DMCA copyright complaint for content that was published using the Vine video platform it acquired and launched earlier this year.

Twitter openly shares how many DMCA takedown notices it gets from copyright holders concerned with content shared on Twitter (or in this case, one of its third-party products), and where the complaints are coming from, on a site called Chilling Effects.

In this particular case, the takedown request came from NPG Records, the 20-year old record label owned by Prince. ‘NPG’ is short for New Power Generation,...

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Prince and Vivendi SA have settled a lawsuit filed by a perfume and cosmetics manufacturer who accused the musician and his then-label (Universal Music Group) of breaching a contract to promote two products.

According to Bloomberg, Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics, a company based in Pennsylvania, sued the musician and UMG in New York State Supreme Court in November 2008, seeking minimum $100,000 in damages.
The suit claimed Prince didn't follow through on contracts to help market perfumes using his name, likeness and the name of his 2006 album 3121. A judge subsequently...

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It looks like the Artist Formerly Known as Prince might have to change his title to the Witness Formerly Known as Prince!

Word on the street is the Purple Rain singer could be called to court to testify in Michael Jackson’s wrongful death lawsuit against AEG.

To refresh your memories, the Jackson family is suing the insurance company for hiring Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted with involuntary manslaughter after giving the King of Pop a lethal dosage of medication.

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Questlove is in a large dressing room backstage at Carnegie Hall, getting his Afro picked out before going onstage to lead a concert honoring the music of his all-time favorite recording artist, Prince. His mother is sitting beside him, beaming at her boy. Back when Quest, now the Roots drummer and Jimmy Fallon bandleader, was a teenager, she and his father only listened to Christian radio and behaved like “the black Ned and Maude Flanders,” he writes in his upcoming memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. When she found Prince records in his room, she would throw them...

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Standing alone outside the Palace nightclub, Steve Fargnoli looked like the saddest man in Hollywood.

He'd devoted two years to bringing Prince's dream, "Purple Rain," to the silver screen. But following the premiere and after-party July 26, 1984, Prince's manager was pessimistic about this maverick rock movie with a first-time star (Prince), first-time director (Albert Magnoli) and first-time producers (Fargnoli and his partners), made in Minneapolis of all places.

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Touré explores the music of his generation and Prince

Everyone at this table is working on a book, even if some of us just in the thinking stage, I’m just fortunate to have finished one that comes out tomorrow called I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became An Icon.

I wrote it because Prince is one of the most important artists of our time with a career that wrestled with spiritual imperative and the sexual impulse, with Saturday night and Sunday morning, and wondering if the two can be merged in one life or in one song.

Submitted by rakshasa 3 months ago

Submitted by rakshasa 3 months ago

This is Prince on August 2, 1990 sound check Osaka Japan. Many thanks to Steve Purcell who shared this memory on facebook on April 22nd.

Submitted by liberiangirl_mj 5 months ago