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Prince: in the secrets of an obsessive artist

2020-10-05T18:03:17.777Z


Thirty years after its release, Sign o 'the Times, the singer's most successful album, is released in a remastered version accompanied by many unreleased tracks. the opportunity to look back on a prolific and demanding career. Confidences of the musicians who worked alongside him.


Alive, Prince was one of the most prolific musicians of his time.

Almost every year of his long recording career, which began in the late 1970s and ended with his death in 2016, has been punctuated by a record release.

There was only Frank Zappa, author of fifty records in twenty-five years, to compete with him.

"If it had been up to him, he would have released a new album every three months, like a musician of the sixties"

, explains Duane Tudahl, member of the team in charge of the musician's archives.

True bottomless pit -

"We could market unreleased titles for decades"

, adds Tudahl - this Ali Baba cave has already given rise to several productions.

In 2018, Warner released a collection of intimate songs,

Piano & A Microphone 1983

.

The following year, album

16

brought together princely versions of songs given to other performers (Sinead O'Connor, Bangles…).

In this fall, the version

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