Tout ça pour une psychanalyse à deux balles alors que tout ce que veulent les fans c'est écouter et voir les merveilles inédites du Vault. Mais bien sûr la polémique va permettre de toucher (beaucoup) plus d'abonnés qui est bien sûr le but recherché par Netflix d'où la commande.Gaspard Elliott a écrit : ↑11 septembre 2024, 14:45Il avait les clés du Vault, on lui a donné de l'or, il en a extrait de la boue.
On est d'accord, pourvu que cela permette la ré-ouverture du Vault.fredmagnus a écrit : ↑11 septembre 2024, 20:22Oui, quelle que soit la polémique et notre avis sur ce documentaire, notre intérêt est qu'il sorte au plus vite pour ouvrir la voie aux sorties que l'on attend tous.
Dans tous les cas, ce n'est pas pour tout de suite puisque le doc va probablement être copieusement édité et cela prend du temps.
En étant optimiste, peut-être que l'on peut espérer une parution l'année prochaine si le blocage définitif est évité.
Je vous trouve dur , c'est clair que Susannah n'était peut-être pas obligée de raconter comment était Prince au plumard ( mais attendons de voir..), que son histoire de claques à Jill Jones allait faire le buzz, ainsi que d'autres anecdotes putaclic mais le doc fait 9 heures ! Ce n'est pas 9 heures de trash et de "révélations" quand-même..fredmagnus a écrit : ↑11 septembre 2024, 15:34Tout ça pour une psychanalyse à deux balles alors que tout ce que veulent les fans c'est écouter et voir les merveilles inédites du Vault. Mais bien sûr la polémique va permettre de toucher (beaucoup) plus d'abonnés qui est bien sûr le but recherché par Netflix d'où la commande.Gaspard Elliott a écrit : ↑11 septembre 2024, 14:45Il avait les clés du Vault, on lui a donné de l'or, il en a extrait de la boue.
Shame shame shame...
fredmagnus a écrit : ↑18 septembre 2024, 11:57Au bout d'un moment, vu qu'il n'y a plus de sorties de prévues et que sortir de la musique est la dernière des priorités de l'Estate, on va dire que tout ceci est dans la suite logique des choses et c'est effectivement un très très mauvais signal qui est envoyé si cela ce confirme (et je pense aussi que cette rumeur est à prendre très au sérieux).
On continue de creuser...
Ah oui ? Dans un certain sens ca me rassure, McMillan ne fait décidément que de la merde. Duane Tudahl n'avait jamais critiqué leur ( non) façon de faire. La décision intelligente aurait été de lui donner un poste de "public relation" parce qu'il est respecté par les fans pour ses remarquables ouvrages.slimongi a écrit : ↑18 septembre 2024, 09:52D'après certaines rumeurs persistantes plutôt à à prendre au sérieux depuis quelques jours ...Duane Tudahl aurait été viré en tant qu'archiviste et consultant de l'Estate ..il n'aurait pas été remplacé...enfin si ..Mc Millan et Spicer vont se charger de cette mission qu'ils jugent inutile de toute façon !
Source : https://keystone-law.com/prince-estate-battle-explainedThe Prince Estate Battle Explained by a Probate Lawyer
By Keystone Law Group
October 17, 2024
Prince died more than eight years ago, and yet the battle over the late superstar’s estate rages on.
Who inherited Prince’s estate? How much was Prince worth when he died? What is happening with Prince’s estate currently?
In this article by Keystone Law Group, a probate attorney delves into the details of what happened to Prince’s estate and the underlying causes of the estate battle. Additionally, they highlight one crucial action Prince could have taken during his lifetime to prevent such a conflict.
Just two years ago, the lengthy and expensive legal dispute over Prince’s estate seemed to have finally ended. However, three of the pop icon’s heirs now find themselves back in court, this time as defendants in a lawsuit concerning their recent actions surrounding an LLC created to preserve and protect Prince’s legacy and intellectual property.
According to Rolling Stone, L. Londell McMillan and Charles Spicer Jr., former business advisers to Prince, filed a lawsuit against the defendants in January 2024. The lawsuit centers on issues related to Prince Legacy LLC, the Delaware-based holding company that controls roughly 50% of Prince’s extensive music catalog. The duo owns a 10% stake in the company, which was provided to them as compensation for their assistance with previous estate litigation and in establishing the LLC.
McMillan and Spicer were seeking, among other things, to be reinstated as managers of Prince Legacy LLC after the defendants had ousted them, arguing that the documents ousting them were invalid. Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick agreed and subsequently granted summary judgment in their favor, but she has yet to hear their other claims surrounding the defendants. Now, further litigation or possibly even a trial is likely to ensue.
Though it’s hard to say how this court battle will play out, we’ll provide you with a detailed breakdown of what is happening with Prince’s estate so you can make your own predictions.
What to Know About the Death of Prince
A significant amount of time has passed since Prince’s death, and as a result, many details about the beloved superstar’s passing may have faded from memory.
In the following sections, we provide background information on Prince’s death to help you better understand the current developments regarding his estate
When Did Prince Die?
Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince, died on April 21, 2016.
He was survived by his sister, Tyka Nelson, and five half-siblings, Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson, John Nelson, Alfred Jackson and Omarr Baker.
Prince died without a will or an estate plan of any kind.
How Did Prince Die?
Prince’s cause of death was a fentanyl overdose. The medical examiner determined the singer self-administered the dangerous drug at Paisley Park, his home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Fentanyl is a powerful opioid that is known to have lethal side effects when administered improperly or outside of medical settings.
What Was Prince’s Net Worth at Death?
There was considerable disagreement over Prince’s net worth at the time of his death.
Comerica Bank & Trust, who was serving as interim administrator of Prince’s estate, valued the estate at $82.3 million, according to NBC News. The IRS, however, contested Comerica’s appraisal, instead valuing the estate at $163.2 million.
Ultimately, both parties reached an agreement, settling on an appraisal of $156.4 million, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Who Inherited Prince’s Estate?
Despite Prince’s extremely high net worth, he died without a will or estate plan of any kind (i.e., he died intestate). This meant the late superstar would have no control over the distribution of his assets.
When a person dies intestate, their assets generally pass down according to the intestate succession laws in their state. Because Prince had longstanding ties to Minnesota and his primary residence, Paisley Park, was located there, his estate would be subject to Minnesota intestacy laws.
Minnesota intestate succession laws provide for the deceased person’s closest surviving heirs to inherit their assets. In Prince’s case, his closest surviving heirs were his sister and five half-siblings, since he did not have a spouse at the time of his death nor were his parents alive.
Whether or not a person dies with a will, most states will require their estate to pass through probate. This court-supervised process is designed to authenticate the deceased person’s will (if they had one), appoint a personal representative (i.e., an executor or administrator) to oversee the estate, ensure outstanding debts are paid, and confirm that heirs or beneficiaries receive their rightful inheritances.
Certain types of assets may not be subject to probate. For example, assets held in trust and assets with beneficiary designations (e.g., bank accounts, life insurance policies, annuities and retirement accounts) are typically not subject to probate.
Because of how expensive and time-consuming probate can be, many people plan their estates in such a way as to avoid it. This approach can also help ensure estate beneficiaries receive their inheritances in a timely fashion.
How Was Prince’s Estate Divided?
The Prince estate was divided equally among his sister and five half-siblings.
Three of the siblings sold their approximate 50% stake in the estate to the music publishing company Primary Wave in August 2021, according to Forbes.
Primary Wave owns a substantial portion of the artist’s music catalog and other assets due to this sale, although it does not hold a majority stake. The music publishing company collaborates with Prince Legacy LLC to control and protect the artist’s music catalog.
Prince Legacy LLC holds a majority stake in Prince’s estate. As previously stated, it was established by Prince’s former business advisers McMillan and Spicer, who have a 10% stake in the company. The remaining portion of the company is owned by the three half-siblings of Prince who did not sell their shares of his estate.
Who Is in Charge of Prince’s Estate?
Currently, both Primary Wave and Prince Legacy LLC oversee the estate of Prince, with each owning around 50% of it.
Prince Legacy LLC owns a slightly larger share of Prince’s estate than Primary Wave, making it the majority stakeholder.
Primary Wave is not involved in the lawsuit brought by McMillan and Spicer.
Was the Prince Estate Settled?
An estate typically isn’t considered “settled” until all its debts have been paid, disputes surrounding it have been resolved, and its assets have been distributed to the heirs or beneficiaries who are entitled to them. Therefore, the estate of Prince is not yet settled.
Prince’s estate has remained open for much longer than typical estates. In California, for instance, most estates must be settled within one year from the date probate is opened. While factors such as complex assets and will contests can delay estate administration, it is rare for an estate to remain open for over six years, like Prince’s has.
There are several reasons for this extended administration. First, Prince left no will or estate planning documents to guide the distribution of his assets. Second, the estate has been mired in legal disputes since the artist’s death, as his heirs could not agree on a distribution plan. Third, decisions regarding the estate cannot be made unilaterally since two different companies own roughly equal portions of it.
Currently, the portion of the estate owned by Prince Legacy LLC is involved in yet another dispute that has the potential to further prolong settlement of the estate indefinitely.
dispute
What Is Happening With Prince’s Estate Currently?
The current dispute surrounding Prince’s estate primarily concerns the actions of Prince’s half-sister, Sharon Nelson, although Prince’s half-sister, Norrine Nelson, Prince’s niece, Breanna Nelson, and Prince’s nephew, Allen Nelson, also have been named as defendants in the lawsuit.
According to Rolling Stone, Sharon Nelson had hoped to co-manage Prince Legacy LLC with McMillan and Spicer, who founded the company. However, her siblings rejected this proposal. Ultimately, Sharon acquiesced, agreeing to allow McMillan and Spicer full management authority over the company.
As time went on, Sharon began to regret her decision to cede full management authority to the duo, so she gradually started to take on a managerial role. For example, Rolling Stone reports that she attempted, but failed, to replace the entire staff of Paisley Park Museum, Prince’s former home and recording studio, with a staff she had handpicked.
Later, she called several meetings, rounding up support from her siblings to execute an amendment to the terms of the LLC that effectively would oust McMillian and Spicer as managers of the company.
In response to this turn of events, McMillan and Spicer brought a lawsuit seeking to have the amendment that effectively cut them out of the business invalidated. In addition, the lawsuit was seeking a ruling that the defendants breached their covenant of good faith and fair dealing, as well as the terms of the LLC agreement, by attempting to remove them as managers of the LLC.
A covenant of good faith and fair dealing generally is implied in most contracts, even if not explicitly stated. It ensures the parties will act justly and honestly with one another so the purpose of the contract is not undermined.
By meeting behind McMillan’s and Spicer’s backs to push through an amendment that would oust them from the company, it could be argued that the defendants were in violation of this covenant.
The judge agreed with at least some aspects of McMillan and Spicer’s lawsuit, which is why she granted summary judgment in their favor. A motion for summary judgment requests that the court issue a decision without proceeding to a full trial, arguing that there are no disputed material facts and that the party filing the motion is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.
The resulting court order ensured the original terms of the Prince Legacy LLC agreement would remain intact and that McMillian and Spicer would remain managers of the company.
In this instance, the court agreed with McMillan and Spicer that the terms of the LLC could not have been lawfully amended by the defendants without authorization.
Though the defendants argued that all the allegations brought against them should be dismissed on various grounds, the judge disagreed, setting the stage for further litigation and possibly even a trial.
Not only would installing any of the defendants as managers of the LLC be in violation of the company’s terms, but it could be massively damaging to the LLC’s mission to preserve and protect Prince’s legacy, according to McMillan and Spicer.
“The Individual defendants lack any business and management experience, have no experience in the music and entertainment industries, and have no experience negotiating and managing high-level deals in the entertainment industry,” the duo writes in the complaint, obtained by Billboard. “They have a documented history of infighting. Based on the amount and complexity of the work that Prince Legacy is involved with, they are simply not capable of stepping in and managing its business.”
Although McMillan and Spicer have a 10% financial interest in approximately 50% of Prince’s estate, which is not insignificant, their lawsuit seeks to protect Prince Legacy LLC, not just their own financial interests in the company. As a result, if the case goes to trial and they win, it’s possible they’ll be able to recoup their legal costs from the defendants.
Netflix Prince Documentary Canceled
Amid this latest dispute surrounding Prince’s estate, the six-part documentary series on the artist’s life, which was set to air on Netflix, is “dead in the water,” NME reports.
The cancellation is attributed to the estate’s concerns that parts of the documentary were sensationalized or factually incorrect. Consequently, the estate refused to license Prince’s music for use in the series.
Without Prince’s music, there is no series. While Netflix hopes to strike an agreement with the estate surrounding the documentary, no deal has been reached yet.
Takeaway: What to Learn From Prince’s Estate Battle
Creating an estate plan with help from a qualified attorney doesn’t always prevent estate disputes, but it does significantly reduce the likelihood of them occurring.
Prince not only had a sizable estate, but a complex one. While it is a good idea for everyone to have an estate plan, it is especially crucial for individuals with substantial or complicated assets.
When a person fails to create an estate plan, not only do they lose control over how and to whom their assets will be distributed after their death, but they leave behind a major headache for their loved ones, who generally will have to spend their money and time to settle their deceased family member’s estate.
“What is happening with Prince’s estate is truly unfortunate,” says Roee Kaufman, a partner at Keystone. “For six years, his loved ones have been caught up in seemingly endless court battles, many of which might have been avoided if Prince had left behind a will. Moreover, a larger portion of his assets could have been available to his heirs, as fewer funds would have been spent on legal fees.”
As you can see, creating an estate plan is extremely important. It’s a small investment of time and money that can pay off in a big way down the road.
RIP.FunkyDancer a écrit : ↑05 novembre 2024, 17:18Tyka Nelson vient de nous quitter à 64 ans...
Cela n'a pas du être simple tous les jours de vivre dans l'ombre d'un frère aussi irradiant, son parcours fut semble t'il tumultueux. RIP.
Nick Hornby danse avec Prince et Dickens
Michel Audetat
20 Octobre 2024
Le Matin Dimanche
Littérature Quoi de commun entre l’auteur d’«Oliver Twist» et celui de «Purple Rain»? A priori rien. Un savoureux essai de l’écrivain britannique ose pourtant ce rapprochement.
Tous deux sont morts à l’âge de 58 ans. À part ça, on ne voit pas ce que l’écrivain anglais Charles Dickens (1812-1870) et le musicien américain Prince (1958-2016) pourraient bien avoir en commun. On s’est donc frotté les yeux en découvrant leurs deux noms réunis sur la couverture du nouveau livre que signe le Britannique et délicieux Nick Hornby: un essai intitulé «Dickens & Prince». À première vue, ce duo paraît aussi déroutant que la fameuse rencontre surréaliste d’une machine à coudre et d’un parapluie sur une table de dissection (André Breton).
L’auteur n’avance qu’une seule raison pour justifier le rapprochement. L’un et l’autre font partie de «ma famille», écrit-il: «Ces personnes qui, au fil des ans, ont occupé mes pensées, qui m’ont façonné, inspiré, donné matière à réflexion pour mon propre travail.» Parler d’eux revient donc à parler indirectement de lui. Les voix de Prince et de Charles Dickens s’accordent ici pour murmurer à l’oreille de Nick Hornby qu’il pourrait sans doute «mieux faire» dans son métier d’écrivain. Le romancier d’époque victorienne et le sex-symbol de Minneapolis lui servent en quelque sorte de surmoi.
Deux torrents de créativité
Car tous deux ont au moins ceci en partage: une créativité démentielle, irrépressible, impossible à endiguer. En 2020, la réédition en coffret de l’album de Prince «Sign o’ the Times» (1986) incluait 63 chansons inédites: «Soit presque quatre fois plus que n’en proposait l’album original, trois de plus que tout ce que Jimi Hendrix avait sorti de son vivant» On estime également qu’il y aurait entre 5000 et 8000 inédits dans la chambre forte où Prince conservait ses enregistrements: «Soit de quoi sortir un album de dix chansons tous les six mois pendant les trois ou quatre prochains siècles.» Son existence posthume s’annonce aussi florissante que sa carrière anthume.
Nick Hornby n’est pas moins bluffé par la fécondité de Charles Dickens: près de 4 millions de mots dans son œuvre romanesque, alors que lui-même doit concéder qu’il n’a pas atteint les 750’000 mots à l’âge de 67 ans Il n’en revient pas non plus que son grand ancêtre se soit mis à publier «Nicholas Nickleby» sans avoir encore écrit la fin d’«Oliver Twist». Il pouvait donc «faire vivre deux livres à la fois dans sa tête» «À ma connaissance, aucun autre écrivain n’a fait ça», ajoute l’auteur sidéré (ce qui n’est pas tout à fait vrai: à la même époque, Balzac et Dumas faisaient pareil). Nick Hornby aurait pu dire de Dickens ce que Diderot avait dit de Shakespeare: c’est un colosse «entre les jambes duquel nous passerions tous, sans que le sommet de notre tête touchât à ses testicules».
Enfances pauvres
De fil en aiguille, d’autres ressemblances se font jour. D’abord une enfance marquée au sceau de la pauvreté: à 12 ans, tandis que ses parents étaient incarcérés pour dettes, le jeune Dickens travaillait dans une manufacture de cirage et teintures; au même âge, le petit Prince s’est retrouvé à la rue et a vécu lui aussi une enfance «dickensienne».
Puis un même souci de l’argent et la même certitude d’être arnaqué: Dickens se battait contre les plagiats, les éditions pirates, les adaptations théâtrales qui ne lui rapportaient pas un penny, et il avait vite compris que ses apparitions publiques pour lire ses œuvres («Il était un magnifique artiste de scène») allaient l’enrichir plus que la vente de ses livres; de manière analogue, Prince s’est dressé contre l’industrie du disque et a compris, lui aussi, après Dickens mais avant tout le monde dans son univers musical, que les prestations publiques étaient susceptibles de rapporter bien plus que les albums. Ajoutons-y, enfin, la place que les femmes ont occupée dans leur vie respective: c’est «leur talon d’Achille» à tous les deux.
Des livres imbibés de musique
Nick Hornby navigue entre Prince et Dickens avec la souplesse et le savoir-faire de celui qui n’a jamais cessé de mixer la littérature et la musique depuis ses débuts dans les années 1990. Parfois au premier plan («Haute fidélité» ou «Juliet, Naked»), parfois au second («Funny Girl» ou «Tout comme toi»), la musique est toujours présente dans ses livres imbibés de rock, de soul ou de funk: nous sommes faits de ces musiques qui nous ont visités et habités, semble-t-il dire, comme de l’étoffe de nos songes. Il y a dans son observation des êtres, qu’ils soient ordinaires ou non, une forme de bienveillance ironique et malicieuse. C’est aussi cela qui rend ses livres attachants. Cette douceur enrobée d’un humour so british .
à lire
«Dickens & Prince - Un génie bien particulier», Nick Hornby, traduit de l’anglais par Christine Barbaste, Stock, 192 p.
Dickens & Prince, de Nick Hornby: fan incontestable
10 Octobre 2024
Le Figaro
LA CHRONIQUE D’ÉRIC NEUHOFF - L’écrivain britannique évoque la pop star et le romancier victorien, les souvenirs et les émotions qui vont avec.
Il fallait y penser. Fourrer dans le même sac Dickens et Prince, et puis quoi encore? A priori, on voit mal ce qui les rapproche. D’ailleurs, il y avait bien d’autres artistes dans le panthéon de Nick Hornby. Pourquoi n’a-t-il pas choisi Joan Didion, Arsène Wenger ou Edward Hopper? Après tout, il a le droit. Il fait ce qu’il veut. Le lien principal qui unit ses deux sujets se résume en gros à Nick Hornby lui-même. Ils appartiennent à ce qu’il appelle «ma famille».
Leur point commun est d’avoir connu le succès très vite et d’être mort dans la cinquantaine. Ils ont grandi dans la pauvreté. On peut avancer aussi qu’ils ont été également prolifiques et qu’ils se sont bagarrés comme des beaux diables pour toucher leurs droits d’auteur, le chanteur ayant été lésé par ses maisons de disques, l’écrivain plagié par des scribouillards sans scrupule («Si Dickens avait connu internet, il aurait perdu ce qu’il lui restait de raison»).
Cet exercice d’équilibriste pratique le zigzag et se révèle assez joyeux. Hornby se souvient du jour où est sorti l’album Sign o’the Times, rappelle que les Pickwick Papers paraissaient en feuilleton mensuel et que Dickens était capable de commencer un roman avant d’avoir terminé le précédent. Il le remercie surtout d’être drôle. C’est une qualité dont a hérité Hornby, qui n’hésite pas à prétendre que le cinéma a influencé Oliver Twist.
Une lettre de remerciements et de gratitude
Il se demande pourquoi des gens sérieux, comme Edmund Wilson, se sont échinés à savoir pourquoi Rigoletto de Verdi était meilleur que Sexy MF de Prince («et, oui, merci, je saisis qu’aucun de ces brillants esprits n’avait écouté Sexy MF»). Ses chouchous, il les défend bec et ongles. Cela implique de citer le journaliste du Village Voice saluant ainsi Dirty Mind : Mick Jagger ferait bien de remballer son pénis et de rentrer à la maison et de hausser les épaules devant Pauline Kael démolissant Purple Rain (le film), «la critique la plus ringarde et la moins compréhensible que j’aie jamais lue».
Son enquête le mène à répertorier les pubs qui ont emprunté leur nom à des personnages de Dickens. La pop star et le romancier victorien reçoivent ici une lettre de remerciements et de gratitude. Hornby réfléchit sur lui-même, ses écrits. Un regret, quand même: «J’aimerais pouvoir de nouveau écouter Purple Rain et When Doves Cry pour la première fois.»Allons, Hornby fait partie de la famille. Au-dessus de son bureau, il y a les photos de Prince et de Dickens. Évidemment.
Je n'arrive pas à lire cet artcile en entier, même en me connectant au site du journal. Un autre lien quelque part ou bien un fichier pdf ?Tinitir a écrit : ↑08 septembre 2024, 14:03Un article très intéressant (et surprenant) sur le documentaire Netflix :
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/maga ... ntary.html
https://princevault.com/index.php?title ... n_Loving_UNevermind2b a écrit : ↑01 décembre 2024, 13:55Je viens de tomber par hasard sur ce titre du Purple One que je connaissais pas :
Keep On Lovin' U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnJB8_r9HA
Quelqu'un aurait des infos sur celui-ci ?
En tout cas, vraiment sympa, un mid tempo pas révolutionnaire mais très agréable…
https://www.startribune.com/dr-fink-mat ... /601179018Being a professional musician often means an unpredictable paycheck. Even for an internationally famous one like Dr. Fink of Prince & the Revolution.
Fink, a Twin Cities keyboardist/producer/composer, is selling 54 lots at auction this week of his Purple memorabilia and instruments — including an unreleased Prince album, rare rehearsal tapes and a synthesizer used on the Purple Rain Tour.
Why? Because he doesn’t want his two adult sons to have to deal with this later and, frankly, he needs the money.
“Income is very inconsistent in this industry,” Matt Fink said before jetting off to London for Friday’s livestreamed auction. “Prince did take care of us. There were difficult times between then and now.”
When working for Prince from 1979 to 1990, Fink set up a retirement plan but he had to tap into those funds while still working. Now 66, he hasn’t started collecting Social Security yet. So, a friend suggested cashing in on the collectibles market.
Bob Pratt, an avid Minneapolis music collector, introduced childhood friend Fink to Propstore, a London-based auction house with a representative in the Twin Cities.
“Propstore will not put it on their site unless it’s 150 percent authentic,” said Pratt, adding that not all auction houses are as judicious in verifying provenances.
Fink mentioned his Propstore auction to fellow Revolution members Bobby Z, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin and Mark Brown but none of them wanted to offer items.
The keyboardist said he is feeling neither guilty nor sentimental about selling about the items.
He made representatives of Primary Wave, which manages half of Prince’s estate, aware that he was auctioning his collectibles.
Among the 54 lots are:
• An Oberheim OB-8 8-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer used in the recording studio and in concert in the 1980s.
Fink said there were four of these synthesizers in Prince’s world, one of which is on display at Paisley Park. The one Fink is offering was his backup for the tours behind “Purple Rain” and “Parade.”
And the synthesizer still works, he assured.
• A collection of 39 Prince archival cassette tapes, from 1979 to ’90.
Fink recorded the tapes on boom boxes, Walkman cassette players and concert consoles.
The prized recording is an unreleased studio album by the Rebels, a 1979 Prince side project. It was his first recording with his first band — Dez Dickerson, André Cymone, Gayle Chapman, Bobby Z and Dr. Fink — after Prince had made his first two albums as a one-man band. It was recorded that summer in Colorado.
“Prince did it on the sly,” Fink said, “and then came to Warner’s after the fact and said, ‘Look what I did. Can you do something with this?’ ”
Warner Bros. Records did not want to release a side project at the time, though Prince branched out two years later by writing and producing a record for the Time.
“That Rebels cassette has been out there as bootlegs,” Fink pointed out. “I’ve never bootlegged anything.”
He doesn’t know if whoever buys it could legally release it. A copy of the unmixed Rebels record exists in Prince’s vault.
Even though he’s not possessive, Fink made digital copies of all the cassettes he is putting up for auction.
• Fink’s paratrooper jumpsuit from the first Prince concert in 1979 at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis. Later, Dr. Fink switched to wearing scrubs. He has kept his old outfits in vacuum-sealed bags in storage.
• T-shirts from different Prince tours. “Eighty percent of them were never worn,” he said.
Propstore’s auction this week offers more than 1,800 music and movie items, including John Lennon’s Vox amplifier and other mementos from the Beatles and Oasis.
Fink said his sons don’t want his Purple stuff, though he is hanging onto some keepsakes, including his Grammy Awards for “Purple Rain.” He still retains arguably his most valuable music possession — his song publishing and recording royalties, though he will consider selling those at some point.
After Prince died in 2016, some people in his orbit — including Prince’s first ex-wife Mayte Garcia, first manager Owen Husney and former executive assistant Karen Krattinger — sold Purple collectibles.
Fink said Propstore predicts the auction could bring $150,000 to $350,000.
Fink, whose last full-time job at a streaming company ended in the pandemic after six years, still performs on occasion with the Revolution and with St. Paul & the Minneapolis Funk All-Stars.
Despite what he’s selling, the St. Louis Park native still has at least eight different Dr. Fink scrubs for wearing onstage. “I’ve got white, teal, purple, blue, dark blue, black,” he said. “I’ve got everything for every occasion. The new modern scrubs with special embroidery on there. I’ve got my own symbol now.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... ealed.htmlPrince's sister Tyka Nelson's cause of death has been revealed two weeks after her passing aged 64.
The musician passed away at North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale, Minnesota on November 4 after reportedly requiring paramedics 'at least six times' in the two months before her death.
Nelson died from cardiac arrest with congestive heart failure listed as a secondary cause of death per The Minnesota Dept. of Health death certificate obtained by TMZ.
Nelson suffered cardiac arrest about 45 minutes before she was pronounced dead. She also battled non-ischemic cardiomyopathy - abnormal heart function - for more than 4 months.
Her death certificate also lists 'substance use disorder' as a contributing condition in her death. She was cremated.
Her last call was made on November 1, three days ahead of her death, according to TMZ.
Although her name isn't listed on every emergency call log, the outlet confirmed that every all was 'made either by her or on her behalf' due to issues like 'bleeding in the GI tract, heart health issues and pain from infection.'
On September 14, she was 'rushed from her Minneapolis home to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.'
Insiders close to her family told TMZ that she suffered from heart issues.
Tyka's son President Nelson confirmed her death with The Star Tribune earlier this week.
A Facebook post from Charles 'Chazz' Smith added: 'Our family is very saddened to share the news of my cousin Tyka Evene Nelson who passed away this morning.'
The daughter of John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw Nelson, Tyka was Prince's only full sibling. Sharon Nelson, her sister told the Tribune on Monday: 'She had her own mind. She's in a better place.'
Tyka was taken ill earlier this year and was forced to miss her own retirement and farewell concert in June at the Dakota in New York.
Between 1988 and 2011, she released four albums titled Royal Blue in 1988, Yellow Moon, Red Sky in 1992, A Brand New Me in 2008, and Hustler in 2011.
'I'm getting older, the singer told the Minnesota Star Tribune before her final show. 'I really wasn't a singer. I'm a writer. I just happen to be able to sing. I enjoy singing.'
Tyka also revealed earlier this year that she was working on a memoir.
She made her last public performance in Australia, in 2018 with a Prince tribute show.
Ahead of the 2018 show, Tyka spoke about the influence her late brother, who died in 2016 aged 57 from an accidental fentanyl overdose, has had on her own musical career.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she revealed that she had sought comfort in her brother's loss though his music.
She went on to explain that her first song was recorded as tribute to her brother and their parents.
Titled End Of The Road, the song was produced exactly one year after his passing, and recorded at his Paisley Park Headquarters.
'That song was my way of telling the world how I was feeling. And me doing what he had begged me to do all those years, to go to Paisley Park to record,' she shared with the publication.
While Prince was adamant that Tkya should start her own recording career, Tyka said that she refused to encroach upon his space in the fame game.
'I hadn't wanted to before because I wanted a separate (musical) identity; I knew he could make music but didn't know if I could,' she admitted.
During a 2017 interview, Tyka revealed she predicted her brother was going to die three years before his passing.
She explained that she 'sensed' the worst was coming after her musical icon brother rang her one day and said he had 'done everything I've come to do'.
Speaking on ITV's Lorraine about Prince's drug overdose, Tyka admitted the appearance was the first time she hasn't used drugs and alcohol to 'mask the pain' of her grief.
Tyka told stand-in host Christine Lampard: 'I was at McDonald's and I got a phone call from an unknown number.
'He said, 'Is this Tyka? It's Prince here', and I said, 'After all this time I know your voice, I know who you are'.
'We were just walking and talking and he said, 'I think I've done everything I've come to do', so that was him telling me it was time.'
She explained that from that moment onwards, she had been 'waiting' for his tragic passing.
'I thought I'm going to buy earrings for his funeral, I'm buying a necklace for his funeral and I'm planning this, I'm telling all my relatives Prince is passing, and so it took an actual three years from the time I got the call at McDonald's.
'So when I got the call that he had passed, I knew immediately what they meant because I was just kind of waiting for that day.'
Tyka added: 'I don't know if it's Native American history - we do sense things as a people.'
She also opened up about her 'struggles', admitting she had been going through harrowing 'ups and downs' since Prince's death aged 57.
'I had the hardest time [out of all her siblings]. We had spent all of our lives together. It probably only hit me last October,' she said at the time.
'I still have my days, but it's getting better. I can see myself at the concert, the first time I heard the demo tape.'
Tyka bravely revealed: 'This is the first time I've not used drugs and alcohol to mask the pain of grief.
'This is the first time what I'm feeling has come out in music, not drugs and alcohol.'
Tyka and her brother were close in his final years after a difficult stretch in their relationship when Tyka was struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine.
She explained that when her parents died she fell off the wagon, but Prince supported her and helped her financially when she went to rehab.
Tyka also divulged the story behind the three beaded braids on the right-hand side of her hair, which symbolize her late mother, father and Prince.
She revealed that when she dies her braid on left-hand side would be moved over to join the others on the right.
Prince's six siblings were named his legal heirs after he died in 2016 with no living children or spouse and no will in accordance to Minnesota law.
Tyka along with Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson sold their interests to Primary Wave in the years since.
MerciMoi a écrit : ↑01 décembre 2024, 21:03https://princevault.com/index.php?title ... n_Loving_UNevermind2b a écrit : ↑01 décembre 2024, 13:55Je viens de tomber par hasard sur ce titre du Purple One que je connaissais pas :
Keep On Lovin' U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnJB8_r9HA
Quelqu'un aurait des infos sur celui-ci ?
En tout cas, vraiment sympa, un mid tempo pas révolutionnaire mais très agréable…
Je n'ai malheureusement pas mieux à te proposer.
Lien vers le podcast : https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/a ... 2-20241202PODCAST.- Quand on pense à Ophélie Winter, on pense tous cheveux blonds peroxydés, débardeurs en lycra et Dieu m’a donné la foi. Quand on pense à Prince, on chante tout de suite Purple Rain et Kiss. Mais on sait moins que les deux artistes ont eu une liaison sur plusieurs années.
Le 3 novembre 2001, Ophélie Winter est l’invitée de Thierry Ardisson sur le plateau de «Tout le monde en parle». Elle a alors 27 ans et parle pour la première fois de son histoire avec Prince. Enfin, de son «amourette» avec Prince... Méconnue du grand public, cette histoire aurait débuté quand la chanteuse de Dieu m’a donné la foi avait 17 ans et n’était pas encore célèbre. Même si, malgré son jeune âge, elle a déjà sorti 2 disques - l’un en 1984, l’autre en 1987 -, qui sont passés inaperçus.
Plus précisément, la rencontre entre Prince et Ophélie Winter a lieu au début des années 1990, après un show donné par le mythique interprète de Purple Rain à Bercy. Dans son autobiographie baptisée Résilience, parue en 2021, Ophélie Winter écrit : «C’est à son concert en 1992 que je l’ai rencontré. J’accompagnais un ami choriste, Théo Allen, qui participait à la première partie.»
La suite ? Elle se passe le même soir en boîte de nuit, où les deux chanteurs se recroisent. Toujours dans son livre, Ophélie Winter raconte qu’ils échangent quelques mots et alors qu’elle allume une cigarette, le «prince de la pop» lui demande de l’éteindre. Quand soudain, il la tire par la main pour l’emmener. Ophélie Winter se souvient : «Il me fait sortir du club par une porte dérobée, me proposant d’écouter mon CD dans sa voiture.» Après quoi, Prince invite la jeune femme dans l’appartement qu’il loue à l’année avenue Foch, dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris. Un appartement surchauffé de 1000 mètres carrés couverts d’une épaisse moquette hollywoodienne. Et c’est là qu’aurait eu lieu leur premier baiser...
Source : https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-chanson ... s-11478360Une collaboration "perdue" entre Kylie Minogue et Prince, intitulée "Baby Doll", a refait surface en ligne 32 ans après sa création.
En 1992, la chanteuse australienne a fait la connaissance de Prince dans les coulisses d’un concert qu’il donnait à Earls Court dans le cadre de sa tournée Diamonds and Pearls.
Elle lui a demandé sur quoi il travaillait et il l’a ensuite invitée dans son célèbre studio de Paisley Park à Minneapolis.
Une version de ce titre funk vient d’apparaître sur le web et son authenticité est confirmée par les paroles qu’on peut entendre : "Let me be your baby doll, sugar and spice and all things nice/ Let me be your paradise".
Kylie Minogue avait elle-même dévoilé ces lignes en 2018.
A l’époque de la composition de ce morceau, Prince aurait demandé à la chanteuse de lui trouver des paroles.
À ce moment, elle n’écrivait pas, mais elle s’est tout de même pliée à l’exercice pour que Prince puisse structurer un morceau. La démo a ensuite été envoyée sous forme de cassette à l’adresse de la chanteuse, mais elle a disparu depuis.
Cela fait des années que Kylie Minogue évoque l’existence de ce morceau. Elle a même expliqué que sa maison de disques n’était pas intéressée par l’idée qu’il le produise lui-même, et qu’elle n’a donc jamais pu l’enregistrer. Elle a également mentionné que la succession de Prince pourrait également en avoir une copie.
Il aurait également été prévu que le titre figure sur une compilation Diamonds and Love que la succession de Prince prévoyait de sortir à l’été 2022. Le projet a ensuite été modifié pour n’inclure que des chansons de l’époque Diamonds And Pearls, et les chansons enregistrées après octobre 1991, y compris "Baby Doll", ont donc été supprimées.
tchisaïï a écrit : ↑01 janvier 2025, 14:40Pour celles et ceux que cela intéresse.
Les freaks off de Sean "Diddy" Combs aka Puff Diddy, Jay Z, Beyonce & autres déglingos.
Il semble que la plupart de nous ne sont pas véritablement au fait de ce qui se trame et du dessous des cartes, et au risque de nous décevoir au plus profond de nos tripes, le temps fait son oeuvre et vient révéler des secrets, vraisemblablement de polichinelle.
À son crédit, Jaguar Wright dénonce des atrocités depuis des années qui s'avèrent être confirmées en ce qui concerne P.Diddy et tout récemment Jay Z qui vient d'être impliqué dans une affaire de viol présumé sur une mineure de 13 ans en compagnie de Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Les raisons des décès de Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston voire même celui de Tyka Nelson dernièrement pourraient nous surprendre à la lumière des évènements en cours, time will tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4L1p0bBFgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpM3heySr_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E3SBFsg3go
etc...
Source : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/m ... rime-trumpFrom Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned ?
The Guardian
Zach Schonfeld
Mon 5 May 2025
As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star’s complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask: are celebrity-endorsed docs, such as the $40m Melania Trump hagiography, the future?
It can be a painful thing, acknowledging that our heroes are both human and flawed, but Ezra Edelman spent five years doing just that. The film-maker behind 2016’s sprawling, Oscar-winning OJ: Made in America, was at work for Netflix on what, by all accounts, would have been the definitive Prince documentary: a nine-hour behemoth drawing upon dozens of interviews with the late icon’s associates and rare access to his personal archive.
The film – according to the few who’ve seen a rough cut – built a layered portrait of Prince’s immense genius and complexities, including a darker side concealed by his playfully eccentric persona: his allegedly cruel treatment of girlfriends and female proteges; his demanding ruthlessness as a bandleader. “We’re asked to sit with Prince’s multiplying paradoxes for many hours, allowing them to unsettle one another,” wrote Sasha Weiss, of the New York Times Magazine, after viewing it.
We won’t, unfortunately, get that opportunity. In February, Netflix scrapped Edelman’s documentary after executors of Prince’s estate, reportedly upset by its content, fought for months to block its release. The streaming platform plans to develop “a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive.” In other words: a watered-down take, to placate the powers that be.
This dispiriting saga reveals much about the bleak state of the celebrity documentary complex in 2025: they are plentiful on streaming platforms yet increasingly indistinguishable from sponsored content. In raw numbers, documentaries are more popular than ever, but they also feel more toothless and risk-averse. Netflix’s capitulation lays it all out in the open, reflecting a climate in which dull, sanitised celebrity docs flood the marketplace while distributors balk at complicated and/or unauthorised films providing complex portraits of their subjects.
The Book of Prince frightened Prince’s estate because they couldn’t control it. But some of the most compelling music docs in recent memory are animated by singular directorial perspectives, not transactional access. That includes Questlove’s fascinating Sly Lives!, which uses the rise and fall of enigmatic funk legend Sly Stone as a vehicle to explore cultural pressures on Black pop stars. By comparison, the band-authorised Becoming Led Zeppelin feels like a work of sheer legacy-minded mythmaking. The performance footage is electric, but interviews with the surviving members steer away from squirmy subjects, like plagiarism charges or underage groupies; complicating wrinkles are smoothed over.
There’s a blurring line between journalism and PR fluff in documentaries lately. It is increasingly common for celebrities to produce, or play a significant behind-the-scenes role, in documentaries about themselves. If the gold standard for this category is Beyoncé’s concert films, then Netflix’s Harry & Meghan, a six-hour exercise in brand management, made with their own production company, may represent the nadir. As Edelman put it, viewers are “being served slop”.
In 2020, Hulu released a four-part series on Hillary Clinton, obscuring the fact that Clinton had chosen the production company and had input over the editing process. Similarly, Taylor Swift selected the director of 2020 documentary Miss Americana, a fitfully revealing glimpse behind the scenes of the Swift empire, then went on to make 2023’s massively successful Eras Tour movie through her own production company.
The problem isn’t that such films exist; it’s that they suck up all the oxygen – and money – from documentary distribution. In recent years, streaming services have filled up with docs about beloved celebrities, some quite worthwhile (2020’s Zappa, 2021’s Tina), others blandly reverential (Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story).
Entertainment companies gobble up fawning documentaries about public figures, but won’t touch anything controversial. Consider that Leaving Neverland, HBO’s bombshell 2019 film investigating child abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, has effectively disappeared. It was permanently removed from Max after a lawsuit from Jackson’s estate – a troubling omen, as Slate’s Sam Adams argues, “at a time when media access is under the near-total control of streaming conglomerates”. (A sequel, Leaving Neverland 2, hit YouTube recently to minimal fanfare.)
A similar dynamic threatens to spread to the literary world. Last year, the influential rap group De La Soul denounced a book about them by music journalist Marcus J Moore and claimed to be “exploring all of our legal options”. In a higher-profile case, Meta recently sued to block promotion of a tell-all memoir from a former employee, an effort that backfired deliciously. It will be an impoverished world where authors fear to publish unauthorised biographies because they can’t afford to be sued by the subject.
The corporate culture of capitulation has only worsened since Trump’s re-election. In December, ABC News agreed to pay $15m to settle what some consider a frivolous lawsuit from Trump. In April, the executive producer of 60 Minutes resigned, saying his journalistic integrity had been compromised by corporate higher-ups, who have been considering their own Trump settlement.
No wonder film companies fear releasing anything that might upset the tweeter-in-chief. Consider that last year’s sleazily gripping Trump biopic The Apprentice struggled to find a domestic distributor until a small company, Briarcliff Entertainment, stepped in. (Briarcliff’s founder argued that the bigger studios had spurned it “strictly based on cowardice”.) Consider, too, that the remarkable documentary No Other Land, which won an Oscar for its wrenching depiction of Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank, still doesn’t have a proper US distributor.
Meanwhile, Amazon Prime (whose parent company recently donated to Trump’s inauguration, which its CEO Jeff Bezos personally attended) is spending $40m to make a Melania Trump vanity documentary, from which the first lady will reportedly profit. Projects like that are closer to propaganda than journalism, and this one’s being bankrolled and legitimised by one of the largest and most powerful streaming companies in the entertainment industry.
Documentaries ought to challenge and hold power to account more than they flatter. Instead, in a landscape where a few streaming companies owned or run by billionaires dominate the documentary market in the US, viewers are paying the price.
Ca vaut vraiment le déplacement malgré le prix et surtout quand on a usé la VHS !
J'essayais de rester optimiste jusqu'à récemment ... jusqu'à la Celebration ! Mais ils font des annonces vagues (pour faire plaisir à tout le monde) , ils feignent de s'intéresser et d'écouterTinitir a écrit : ↑28 août 2025, 11:03Pour revenir sur la morosité ambiante et essayer de positiver, plusieurs choses me viennent à l'esprit. Les sorties devraient reprendre avec Around The World In A Day puis Parade en éditions deluxe. Alors nous aurons sans doute (espérons-le) droit à des inédits studio et des concerts vidéos (notamment celui diffusé à Paisley Park). Et si l'Estate envisage la reprises de sorties plus régulières, espérons également Piano & A Microphone live Atlanta 2016 (dernier projet de Prince), le concert de Wembley 1995 (diffusé à Paisley Park), le Rex 1993 (prévu dans le SDE Diamonds & Love), un 2ème concert en vidéo de 2011 (Greensboro, diffusé à Paisley Park)... Pour ma part, j'essaye un tant soit peu de rester optimiste. Peut-être que les exclusivités de Paisley Park ne seront pas diffusées mondialement, mais possible qu'elles le soient dans un futur plus ou moins proche ? En attendant, je continue d'écouter du Prince, évidemment, mais également d'autres artistes que j'apprécie énormément.
mais elle a quand même été bluffé ( comme ma fille ) de l’énergie de Prince sur scène , inimitable , unique …
