Hunting for Prince's Vault
Mobeen Azhar attempts to solve one of pop music's great mysteries: does Prince really have thousands of unreleased tracks squirreled away? And if so, what do they sound like?
Mobeen Azhar attempts to solve one of pop music's great mysteries: does Prince really have thousands of unreleased tracks squirreled away? And what do they sound like?
This is a journey into the creative impulses which animate one of pop music's most respected and idiosyncratic figures. Mobeen talks to musicians, dancers, prot茅g茅s and engineers who portray the purple one as a modern day Mozart with an unrelenting urge to make music. They provide clues as to what hidden gems Prince has hidden away in his vault at his Paisley Park HQ, give insight about why a lot of that material remains unreleased and offer theories as to how bootleg copies were leaked during the '80s and '90s.
Interviewees include:
Susan Rogers, Prince's studio engineer from 1985-1989
Matt (Dr) Fink, keyboard player
Catherine (Cat) Glover, part of Prince's Sign O The Times and Lovesexy bands
Eric Leeds, saxophonist
Michael Bland, drummer with the New Power Generation
Alan Leeds, tour manager and head of Paisley Park Records from 1986-1992
Hans Martin Buff, Prince's former sound engineer
Producers: Ben Carter and Mobeen Azhar.
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20 Rare Prince Gems - delve deep in to Prince's official back catalogue
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Prince
Crystal Ball
- Crystal Ball.
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Joy in Repetition
- Grafitti Bridge.
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Act of God
- 2OTEN.
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The Truth
- The Truth.
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Prince & The New Power Generation
Hallucination Rain
- Exodus.
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Power Fantastic
- The Hits/The B Sides.
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Time
- Art Official Age.
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Old Friends For Sale
- The Vault: Old Friends for Sale.
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Strange But True
- Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.
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Crazy You
- For You.
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Private Joy
- Controversy.
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Prince
Something in the Water (does not compute)
- 1999.
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When 2 R In Love
- Lovesexy.
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Come
- Come.
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Soul Sanctuary
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Lion of Judah
- Planet Earth.
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Wall of Berlin
- LotusFlow3r.
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Prince
Cindy C
- The Black Album.
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Prince
Muse 2 the Pharaoh
- The Rainbow Children.
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Prince
I Like It There
- Chaos and Disorder.
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