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Can't help but wonder if the primary reason was simply a marketing opportunity.

• Projectiboga 3y ago
  No it was part of his dispute with his record label, he wanted to leave them the Prince name and be something new. It was of course marketing but it was intended to create a separate listing in the old Flying Fish record catalog. Record stores used to have a huge loose leaf book with most recordings listed, it was a way to see if you could get older records. Sometimes you had to just look around, I had to buy the first two Yes albums from a flea market seller who also carried those old vinyl bootlegs. I'm dating my self as an early Gen-Xer with all this obsolete arcane 'knowledge'.
  • jsbisviewtiful 3y ago
    I appreciate the insight and that's a much more fun backstory than expected. I was born a few years after Purple Rain so Prince's era is mostly unknown music history for me.
  • Beldin 3y ago
    You forgot to mention (or left a deliberate opening for other "millenials" like yourself ;) that at one point, he had "slave" tattooed on his cheek - for the same reason.
    • monooso 3y ago
      If memory serves, the "tattoo" was nothing more permanent than a Sharpie.