When audio engineer Peggy McCreary was recording Prince for his 1999 album, she didn’t immediately recognize his genius. “I had no idea who he was when I first started working with him,” she recalls.

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“Don’t worry,” announces the warped robot voice at the start of Prince‘s 1999. “I won’t hurt U. I only want U2 have some fun.” Is this the voice of God? Or Prince‘s synthesizers talking back to him?

Dance, Music, Sex, Romance abbreviated to “D.M.S.R.”; that track title neatly sums up 1999, Prince’s fifth album, released in 1982. The purple one’s first double vinyl album (condensed to a single ...

A hallmark of Rolling Stone is the magazine’s long lists of superlatives. Rolling Stone has published multiple lists of the greatest songs of all time and the greatest albums of all time. In 2010, ...

Prince fans have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. On Black Friday, the Prince estate is releasing a remastered version of the late singer's 1982 album "1999," which spawned hits including ...

The Prince Estate and Warner Records have outdone themselves with their re-release of Prince’s iconic “1999” album, with a massive boxed set containing tons of unreleased material and even a four-part ...

On the role of "Prince's archivist:" The overarching thrust of the job is to organize and preserve Prince's audiovisual legacy — his vault — and the extension of that is to be the A&R guy for ...

For the still-struggling Prince & the Revolution, it was a momentous occasion: free HBO in their motel. It was the fall of 1981 and they were touring the South to promote the album "Controversy." Not ...

Prince fans can now dress like it’s 1999. Designers who worked with the late rock icon from 2011 until his death in 2016 have released a collection of styles inspired by his “1999” album — a move ...