Update: Thank you for listening to our 2015 Prince A-to-Z marathon. Follow all of our ongoing Prince coverage here. It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for: we’ve pulled the purple lever! MPR News weather guru Paul Huttner has officially certified that one inch of snow has accumulated in Chanhassen, Minn. — home of Prince’s famous…

Prince has indefinitely postponed his solo European tour in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The tour would have included two December shows in Paris, as well as performances at 15 more cities across the continent. (NME) I was upset when they put those up in the morning @Prince3EG but totally understand your…

Tickets for the U.K. stops on Prince’s “Piano and a Microphone” European tour were scheduled to go on sale today at 10:00 a.m. local time (early morning in Minnesota), but they’ve been postponed with no explanation — though this morning’s tweets from Prince suggest that the cause might have something to do with concerns about…

In honor of the release of a trailer for Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory, Questlove tweeted a story about Prince. (Pitchfork) We knew Prince was a Nemo fan: the movie played twice during his visit last summer with Bobby Z and Andrea Swensson. . @Prince3EG once fired me from a dj gig in a nightclub & instead blasted the #FindingNemo dvd on…

The Current’s exclusive broadcast of “CRAZY 2 COOL,” a live medley recorded by Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL last year in France, turned out to be just the kickoff to a weekend-long Chanhassen party that included a James Bond movie screening and the announcement of a solo European tour. On Friday and Saturday nights, Prince opened the…

When we decided to have a little fun this winter and go all-Prince on our Local Current stream as soon as it snows, we had no idea what Prince himself might make of our little stunt. In fact, he loves the idea, and to help everyone get in the Purple spirit, he’s sharing “CRAZY 2…

Jackie Wilson made his singles chart debut; the Beatles played for the Queen; Johnny Nash saw his way clearly to the top of the singles chart; Roxette had another hit in America; and Prince debuted his backing band, The Revolution, Today in Music History.

Michaelangelo Matos revisits the evolution of Prince’s revolution in a recent feature for the Pitchfork Review, spotlighting the seminal 1980 album Dirty Mind. Here are five highlights. Prince insisted on being signed to the Warner Bros. pop roster, not their R&B roster. In the segregated music world of the late ‘70s, it was very difficult to cross…

The bottomless yellow jumpsuit Prince wore to the VMAs in 1991 appears on a new Rolling Stone list of “20 great moments in rock star nudity.” There aren’t any other Minnesota artists on the list, but Minneapolis regular Janet Jackson makes the list with her Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction,” and Rock the Garden alumni Matt & Kim…

It was probably inevitable that someone would rewrite Prince’s infamously dirty Purple Rain track “Darling Nikki” in honor of Nicki Minaj—and it turns out that someone is Beyoncé. Queen Bey sings an a capella verse of “Darling Nikki Nicki” in a new promotional video for a live performance of Minaj’s song “Feeling Myself,” a collaboration that the pair…