However recent years have seen a thawing in the relationship between artist and record label and the stalemate which had previously seen both sides largely ignoring each other was finally resolved late last year. The Purple Rain star famously fell out with his longterm record company in 1993, which led to the widely ridiculed decision to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol. This marks the first time any of the Minneapolis musician's albums have been given the 'deluxe box set' treatment and only came about after extensive negotiations between Prince and Warner Bros Records. Records has announced that in conjunction with NPG records it will be releasing Prince's seminal 1987 double-album 'Sign 'O' the Times' in a remastered and deluxe packaged box set. The only song that would have appeared with a minor difference was If I Was Your Girlfriend, which at this point did not have the 'wedding march' and 'Look at the bargains over here, ladies' samples at the beginning, instead starting 'on the 2', like the single does.īURBANK, CA-(Marketwire -04/01/12)- Warner Bros.
Rockhard In A Funky Place was planned for release on 'The Black Album' in 1987, but finally received an official release with 'The Black Album' in 1994. Feel U Up was released as the b-side of the 12' Partyman in 1989. Goodlove was available on the Bright Lights, Big City movie soundtrack in 1988 (as Good Love). Shockadelica was released as the b-side of the 12' of If I Was Your Girlfriend in 1987. Only Housequake, Strange Relationship and If I Was Your Girlfriend were kept as the album developed into Prince’s next officially released album, Sign O’ The Times.Īll of the remaining tracks have since been released elsewhere, although Rebirth Of The Flesh has only been released in a live rehearsal form (by the NPG Music Club, in 2001). When the project was developed into Crystal Ball (first sequenced on 30 November 1986), seven of the eight tracks were kept only Feel U Up was removed.
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