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Prince's music videos hit YouTube following 'Purple Rain' reissue
Though Prince took major efforts to keep his work offline, a lot of it has been slowly making its way back to the internet since his death. The newest online addition of his increasingly accessible body of work are a handful of music videos posted today on YouTube and Vevo. An official Prince account has uploaded official music videos as well as live performances of hit songs like "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy" from the album Purple Rain.
A 'Purple Rain' concert film may be the next streaming exclusive
The Prince estate is trying to interest a major music streaming service in the exclusive rights to an unreleased concert film. It was recorded in a Minneapolis nightclub just prior to, and containing songs from, his 1984 movie Purple Rain. There's additional footage on the table, too -- enough to make a documentary about the filmed show. The potentially multimillion-dollar deal hasn't been finalized, but the estate is shopping the goods around to non-Spotify streaming providers like Apple Music, according to Billboard.
Blu-ray movie releases for the week of July 23rd
For those out there who have been yearning for some Prince in glorious TrueHD, your prayers have finally been answered. This week, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince and Now Just Known as Prince is featured on Blu-ray in his cinematic masterpiece, Purple Rain. The vertically-challenged singer/actor/maestro plays The Kid, a promising musician at the start of his career who has to struggle against prejudices and his own past in order to reach super-mega-stardom. The movie came out before most of the readers of this blog were even born, but is considered a classic by uh, Prince fans. Here is the full list of titles this week: The Host Weeds: Season Two Purple Rain Out for Justice Rounding out the list is the successful Korean creature horror flick, The Host, the second season of Weeds, and Out for Justice, a Steven Seagal movie that somehow managed to make his other movies look like Citizen Kane. The Host and Weeds look like solid purchases, but everything pales to next week's releases when we finally get 300. Pre-orders for that title have been massive and expectations are incredibly high for the high-def versions of the Spartan epic. Hope you have your pre-orders in -- it's gonna be a hard one to find.
