RIP Prince
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the time lowkey went in on they set
Concert looked live as fukk
Seems like spike is throwing a P jam every week n shyt.
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Tidal finally updated prince discography, all his albums up for streaming now (crystal ball, ect)
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They should rip the mixcloud bootlegs, who is going to snitch on em? The fans would be all on that.
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Hunt for Prince's vault bbc radio documentary:
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Prince remembered by writer from the Muppets:
Plus the show in question:
As the world mourns the loss of Prince, Muppet fans have been doing a lot of reminiscing about his classic Muppets Tonight episode from 1997 (about which we recently wrote at-length). Kirk Thatcher, who wrote and produced the Prince episode, shared his memories of working with the Artist. Kirk has graciously allowed us to share his memories here on ToughPigs.
Below is Kirk Thatcher’s original post. Many, many thanks to Kirk for allowing us to share it!
So very sad about Prince… another gone much too soon. I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days working with him as a writer/producer on Muppets Tonight about 20 years ago and thought I would share.
We were very excited that Prince had agreed to do our Muppet comedy and variety show but had been told by his managers and support staff before we met with him that we must never look at him directly or call him anything but, “The Artist” or just, “Artist”. As the writers of the show, we were wondering how we were going to work or collaborate with someone you can’t even look at, especially while trying to create comedy with puppets!!! It’s not a easily discussed or achieved endeavor!
Considering all this we were obviously nervous before our meeting with him. I think it was a Sunday or Monday night after regular work hours. He had a core group of staff who arrived before him to make sure everything would be to his approval. We joked that Prince wasn’t just his name, he lived his life like a Royal and had convinced the people he employed that he was to be treated as such! All this led us to be rather worried how we would get comedy from him, or even get him to agree to the bits we had written. They had been sent to him previously for approval and we hadn’t heard any advance notice that he didn’t like any of it, but he wanted to meet the night before to discuss the show, and so we waited after work in a large conference room, amply supplied with the specific food and beverages his people had requested.
Very often, people in entertainment will agree to do shows without having ever read the scripts, instead dealing with it on the day or the night before. Visions of him trashing everything and forcing us to start over filled our minds!!! It wouldn’t have been the first time we had to rewrite a show before or during production due to that!
“The Artist” finally arrived and the first thing that struck me was how diminutive he was, especially standing next to his enormous security guard. He was only half again bigger than most of the Muppets! We awkwardly all introduced ourselves, careful not to address him in anyway, and trying not to look at him, but it just seemed so weird to do that, so I waved a little and said my name, as did most of us, and Brian Henson took the lead as we sat in the conference room and went over all the sketches he was in. He and his people seemed to get the jokes and enjoyed the fun we were having with him and he thankfully had very few notes. He just smiled and giggled quietly at the script and seemed very open to it all.
We became more comfortable with him after this and even looked him in the eye when we spoke to him! He didn’t seem to mind and we wondered if it was a test he had invented to see how people would deal with him and that absurd demand. Both that evening and during the entire shoot day, Prince had a bemused yet quiet air around him with a very quiet voice and impish grin. He had fun additions and improvs and loved playing and ad-libbing with the puppets and was very easy to talk to and work with. The impetuous and mercurial “difficult artist type” we had been warned about was never to be seen! His team was relieved as this was their chief concern, that he remain happy!
The whole situation with his advance team and management reminded me of the relationship I had created between Kermit and Sam the Eagle in Muppet Treasure Island. Sam had convinced everyone that Kermit, playing Captain Smollet, was a furious and angry tyrant, beset by inner demons and outer tirades. But when we meet him, he was just good, old, sweet-natured Kermit the Frog… just in a captains outfit. The same for Prince. He was just a nice, fun, creative guy who had built this persona around himself, and had a team there to reinforce it, probably to protect his art, his personal life and even his sanity.
So the day went off without a hitch. He had fun playing a country bumpkin in the Hee Haw sketch and enjoyed all the Muppet silliness about his name/logo and his outlandish and sexy costumes. He smiled and laughed between takes and even chatted with me, as I was the Producer on set for most of his episode. His bodyguard was on point the entire shoot though, asking me about anyone who entered the soundstage who he hadn’t seen before, to make sure they were cleared. He had stories about the lengths fan would go to meet Prince and the insanity it created in them and it became clear it was not paranoia at all on his part or on Prince’s. I realized how incredibly taxing and shy that kind of fame would make someone, everywhere they go they are being stalked by not just the media, but by rabid, sometimes dangerously demented fans.
The day progressed as planned and Prince even stayed longer to do an extra song number that was on the list to be cut if time didn’t permit…He was having such fun that he changed his flight plans and worked until late that night or early into the next day to shoot it all. A complete professional in every way and an absolute joy to be around. We found out the next day or so that he had suffered a tremendous personal loss the day he left to come and shoot with us. Something big enough that most people would have canceled something as trivial as appearing on our show and taken weeks or possibly a month off to deal with. But he showed up and had fun and created a great show with us, the ultimate professional.
I have no photos of us together that day, as he and his team were very clear that no candid pictures were to be taken, but I have great memories of those couple of days, the tremendous respect I have for him as an artist, and as a professional as well as all his fantastic music that I grew up with. RIP: The Artist who will Always be Known as Prince.
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As you can tell by my Avi, I'm still in disbelief about the Purple Majestic Beautiful Immortal One
...and, I just discovered Somewhere here on Earth/Mr. Goodnight/June/Hardrocklover
Can't even pick a Best Song cuz they're all GOATNESS
...and, I just discovered Somewhere here on Earth/Mr. Goodnight/June/Hardrocklover
Can't even pick a Best Song cuz they're all GOATNESS
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so much piff removed from this thread
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This footage kills me because of how much footage the European media has that America has never seenAs you can tell by my Avi, I'm still missing the Purple Majestic Beautiful Immortal One
...and, I just discovered Somewhere here on Earth/Mr. Goodnight/June/Hardrocklover
Can't even pick a Best Song cuz they are all on a hundred, thousand, trillion
Everything from "clowning on Mico's shoes, flirting with the stylist,talking to Sheila E about rhythm arrangements, guitar version of Do Me baby " The US version of this documentary didn't have most of this footage. They wanted to keep the mystique that he hardly talked. The GOAT bandleader of his generation. 
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if anyone has the full hour and 20 minute version of this i would truly appreciate it
prince is doing coke and sipping tea the entire session, Youtube pulled that shyt down with the quickness
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these new prince fans make me sick 
The Prince Blu-ray Movie Collection
The Prince Blu-ray Movie Collection
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Prince Movie Collection. The release will be available for purchase on October 4.
The Collection features Prince's only three acting performances: the Academy Award winner Purple Rainwith newly remastered audio and video, along with the unofficial sequel Graffiti Bridge and Under the Cherry Moon, both available for the first time on Blu-ray.
The Prince Movie Collection will be available for $24.98 SRP and each film will sell individually for $14.97 SRP. Instead of the traditional blue Blu-ray casing, each film will be packaged in Prince's signature color of purple (while supplies last).
Purple Rain
Winner of Grammy and Academy Awards for its pulsating song score; Purple Rain marks the electrifying movie debut of Prince as The Kid, a Minneapolis club musician as alienated as he is talented. The Kid struggles with a tumultuous home life and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sexy Apollonia Kotero. Prince and the Revolution scorch with "Let's Go Crazy", "I Would Die 4U", "When Doves Cry" and the title song in what Rolling Stone calls "the smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock-'n'-roll movie ever made."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
His Purple Rain took the movie and music worlds by storm. Now Prince stars – and makes his directorial debut – in his lavishly playful second film, Under the Cherry Moon. He plays an American musician living with his pal (Jerome Benton) on the French Riviera and on the bank accounts of bored divorcees. The next object of his affection is a lovely and spirited young heiress (Kristin Scott Thomas in her movie debut). He doesn't count on confronting the girl's enraged father (Steven Berkoff). And he certainly doesn't count on falling in love. But with Prince in charge, you can definitely count on exciting music, shimmering costume, production design and style to burn. This Moon shines!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
It's got that Purple Rain feeling through and through. And it's got The Kid, too! For the first time since Purple Rain, Prince is back as The Kid. And where he goes, there's music! With "Thieves in the Temple", "New Power Generation", "Elephants and Flowers" and more red-hot Prince tunes from the Platinum-selling Graffiti Bridge soundtrack. What time is it? Party time! Morris Day and the Time play "Release It, Shake!" and more. And you'll also see and hear George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Robin Power, Mavis Staples and other hot performers, too. Graffiti Bridge is where the movie meets the music. Cross over on it now!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Prince Blu-ray Movie Collection
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Prince Movie Collection. The release will be available for purchase on October 4.
The Collection features Prince's only three acting performances: the Academy Award winner Purple Rainwith newly remastered audio and video, along with the unofficial sequel Graffiti Bridge and Under the Cherry Moon, both available for the first time on Blu-ray.
The Prince Movie Collection will be available for $24.98 SRP and each film will sell individually for $14.97 SRP. Instead of the traditional blue Blu-ray casing, each film will be packaged in Prince's signature color of purple (while supplies last).
Purple Rain
Winner of Grammy and Academy Awards for its pulsating song score; Purple Rain marks the electrifying movie debut of Prince as The Kid, a Minneapolis club musician as alienated as he is talented. The Kid struggles with a tumultuous home life and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sexy Apollonia Kotero. Prince and the Revolution scorch with "Let's Go Crazy", "I Would Die 4U", "When Doves Cry" and the title song in what Rolling Stone calls "the smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock-'n'-roll movie ever made."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2016 1080p HD master
- Audio Commentary by Director Albert Magnoli, Producer Robert Cavallo and Cinematographer Donald E. Thorin
- First Avenue: The Road to Pop Royalty: Visit the Nightclub Where Prince Started
- Purple Rain Backstage Pass: Behind the Scenes
- Riffs, Ruffles and a Revolution: The Impact and Influence of Purple Rain
- MTV Premiere Party Original Broadcast
- 8 Music Videos: Let's Go Crazy, Take Me With U, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U/Baby I'm a Star, Purple Rain, Jungle Love, The Bird and Sex Shooter
- Original Trailer
His Purple Rain took the movie and music worlds by storm. Now Prince stars – and makes his directorial debut – in his lavishly playful second film, Under the Cherry Moon. He plays an American musician living with his pal (Jerome Benton) on the French Riviera and on the bank accounts of bored divorcees. The next object of his affection is a lovely and spirited young heiress (Kristin Scott Thomas in her movie debut). He doesn't count on confronting the girl's enraged father (Steven Berkoff). And he certainly doesn't count on falling in love. But with Prince in charge, you can definitely count on exciting music, shimmering costume, production design and style to burn. This Moon shines!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2016 1080p HD master
- Trailer
It's got that Purple Rain feeling through and through. And it's got The Kid, too! For the first time since Purple Rain, Prince is back as The Kid. And where he goes, there's music! With "Thieves in the Temple", "New Power Generation", "Elephants and Flowers" and more red-hot Prince tunes from the Platinum-selling Graffiti Bridge soundtrack. What time is it? Party time! Morris Day and the Time play "Release It, Shake!" and more. And you'll also see and hear George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Robin Power, Mavis Staples and other hot performers, too. Graffiti Bridge is where the movie meets the music. Cross over on it now!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2016 1080p HD master
- Trailer
This footage kills me because of how much footage the European media has that America has never seen
lovesexy was a tour that left me ...Emancipated!!