Prince makes peace with Warner Brothers

[jazdoc]

From Variety....

Andrew Barker

Adding an amiable epilogue to one of the most public contract disputes in the history of the music business, Prince and Warner Bros. Records have come to terms on a global licensing partnership.

The wide-ranging deal grants the singer ownership of his master recordings, and allows Warners to digitally remaster and reissue Prince’s albums from 1978 through the 1990s. Financial details were not disclosed.

The announcement comes several months before the 30th anniversary of Prince’s soundtrack album, “Purple Rain,” which a press release confirmed would be the first record to get the deluxe reissue treatment, with others to follow. Prince also announced that a new studio album is “on the way.”

“Warner Bros. Records and Eye are quite pleased with the results of the negotiations and look forward to a fruitful working relationship,” said Prince, with his characteristic pronoun spelling, in a statement.

Such words would have been unimaginable two decades ago, when Prince’s disputes with the label — which had signed him to an enormous contract extension in 1992 — grew so fierce that he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol and performed on kudocasts with the word “slave” scrawled on his face. Prince settled with Warner Bros. Records in 1996, and his most recent albums have been released independently through his own NPG Records imprint.

Released in June of 1984, “Purple Rain” has since been certified 13-times platinum by the RIAA.

 

[zztop7]

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Hopefully he crossed out the inappropriate paragraphs in the contract this time.

Many artists tend to be horrible business people, but I also think it is pure laziness in a lot of bad business deals.

zz.

 

[Steve Williams]

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Hopefully he crossed out the inappropriate paragraphs in the contract this time.

Many artists tend to be horrible business people, but I also think it is pure laziness in a lot of bad business deals.

zz.

whatever anyone might say, he is still a great performer

 

[jazdoc]

I am looking forward to his new studio release. Think I'll spin 'Dirty Mind'.....

 

[edorr]

whatever anyone might say, he is still a great performer

The best performer I have ever seen play a small venue by a mile. Sheer genius.

 

[edorr]

I am looking forward to his new studio release. Think I'll spin 'Dirty Mind'.....

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He released a 4 discs set called Crystal Ball, with a "Prince unplugged" type acoustic album called "The Truth". Get your hands on it if you can.

http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Album:_The_Truth

 

[zztop7]

whatever anyone might say, he is still a great performer

Yes, he is a great performer >>> & he probably read this contract >>> & probably slept with it under his pillow [that is written in a POSITIVE manner].

zz.

 

[jazdoc]

He released a 4 discs set called Crystal Ball, with a "Prince unplugged" type acoustic album called "The Truth". Get your hands on it if you can.

http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Album:_The_Truth

+1

 

[jazdoc]

Prince on SNL:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/707975

 

[Asamel]

Don't get him one bit. I watched his first song on SNL then turned him/them off.

 

[MadFloyd]

Great band.

Between all the band members, I think they have more pedals on the floor than I've ever seen.