If Prince covers your music-you know you have done something...
My "Living Legends" series continues this week with Prince. Where do you start with an artist such as Prince!? He is a one man musical machine who is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, musician, collaborator and artist in his own right. He is a sexually ambiguous eccentric and incredible performer who has always been innovative with everything from his name to his attitude to the internet and the music industry. He is quite simply a music phenomenon and one of the most important music artists of all time. For many his best days are long gone, but even his later era music has often impressed me and his jazzy "Rainbow Children" album from 2001 remains for me one of his most amazing and exciting works. Even back when he was writing hits such as "Manic Monday" for...
and another big tune from the Sweat era (some good chill out mixes of this aswell...
Bout time the sun came...
I read in the Economist an interesting article on record labels trying to get cash streams other than selling music and it seems that Prince has gone one further...He is due to give away his new album with the Mail on Sunday tomorrow. I expect it will be, oh, 5 seconds before one is on sale on e-bay to get to all those fans in other countries.I assumed it was going to be a UK only event... then I saw the adverts on Irish telly... he's releasing it over here too. So who will be first with the LouderVoice review?tags : The+Economist, record labels, music, Prince, Mail on...

That Prince is a Music God. And then you see this:
Superbowl XLI half-time show.
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