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In an interview to mark the upcoming 10th death anniversary of the music icon, one of Prince’s closest friends and collaborators has declared the singer once told him he didn’t want to live past 35.

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"The cultural impact of Purple Rain is so enormous that it ultimately overshadows the music": Prince aims for superstardom and succeeds with Purple Rain - just steer clear of the movie

The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age

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Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bundle of rags with nothing to say’

As he tours the UK, the musician answers your questions on making Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, squabbles with XTC and the Band, and wiring his studio while high

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“Prince was always borrowing my car because it was awesome. I imagine he was making out in the back seat when he got the seed of the idea. But it's not a red Corvette – it's a pink Mercury!”: The inside story of Prince's first major hit

One of the most sexually explicit songs ever to appear in the mainstream pop charts

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“He said, ‘So, what about playing for me?’ I said, ‘Play what?’ He said, ‘Drums.’ I said, ‘Really? That would be so dope'”: The many drummers of Prince

We round up some of the Purple One's best sticksmen and women

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“He got that from me. I used to throw my guitar as high as I could, like, 20 feet, and my guitar tech would catch it”: Dez Dickerson on Prince, his iconic Little Red Corvette solo, and why he left the Revolution

Dez Dickerson was a teenage Minneapolis guitar prodigy – then he teamed up with another one. He describes his Mick-and-Keith chemistry with the Purple One, recording at Paisley Park (before Prince), and that infamous Stones show

Guitar World

Netflix axes controversial nine-hour Prince documentary

The documentary by Oscar-winning ‘OJ: Made in America’ director Ezra Edelman may never be seen

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If anyone fancies giving us £50,000 so we can buy Prince's beautiful bespoke guitar, we'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance, friends

A stunning guitar owned and played by Prince is among the highlights of the Marvels of Modern Music collection currently up for auction

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Prince: Icon - the most significant collection of Prince images ever assembled by top photographers

This beautifully curated book is the most significant collection of Prince images every assembled by top photographers

Digital Camera World

Fans can be Prince for a night as Purple Rain house debuts on Airbnb

Minneapolis house featured in 1984 movie offers once-in-a-lifetime experience with interiors based on late music star

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"The way that Control sounds is an accident because we didn’t know what we were doing": why Jam and Lewis recorded Janet Jackson’s breakthrough album ‘wrong’, and why it’s all Prince’s fault

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"He’s a prince who thinks he’s a king already": The day a young Prince supported The Rolling Stones, and was abused and brought to tears by thousands of food-throwing racists

The Rolling Stones appeared to blame Prince for their audience's deplorable reaction to his performance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on their 1981 Tattoo You tour

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The artist formerly known as Camille – Prince's lost album 'comes out'

When Prince Rogers Nelson died at the age of 57 on April 21, 2016, it sent shockwaves around the world. Tributes from fans flooded social media, vigils sprang up across the US, and key landmarks, including the Lowry Bridge in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, turned purple to mark his passing.…

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Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby review – cultural greats collide

A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work

Boston Herald

Prince estate's battle over release of recordings will continue, court rules

BOSTON — Music legend Prince has been dead for more than six years, but a battle continues to rage over an EP of five gospel-inflected blues tracks that his estate says were wrongfully released a year after his death.

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Court case for Prince's estate finally closes

MINNEAPOLIS — More than six years after Prince Rogers Nelson unexpectedly died and left no will, the court case surrounding the music legend's estate has come to an end.

The Conversation

An 11-year-old Prince spoke out in support of his striking Minneapolis teachers – a historian of the city's music scene explains why

For Prince fans around the world, the recent discovery of the singer speaking out at age 11 on behalf of striking Minneapolis public schoolteachers is an exciting piece of Prince pop cultural iconography. Like his vault of unreleased music, it’s a find that enriches the public’s understanding of who he…

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Rare footage discovered of Prince, 11, at 1970 Minneapolis teachers’ strike

CBS News affiliate WCCO uncovers archive material of school-age Prince being interviewed as teachers picket in the background

Los Angeles Times

Previously unknown footage of a preteen Prince surfaces in Minneapolis

Minneapolis is abuzz after local news station WCCO uncovered footage of an 11-year-old Prince answering a question posed by a TV reporter about a possible teacher strike at schools, including Lincoln Junior High, where Prince went. The filmed footage had remained buried in the station’s archives since 1970, when the…

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A Prince photograph, Andy Warhol, and the Supreme Court battle that put pop art on trial

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith contends Warhol infringed on her copyright when he used one of her images in several works; the Warhol Foundation insists it was fair. Clémence Michallon looks into the case that has reached the highest court in the land

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