Watch Prince and the NPG at the Opening Ceremony for the 1991 Special Olympics International Games July 20, 2018 Watch Prince and the New Power Generation kick off the Special Olympics on July 20, 1991 from the field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
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Install the Purple Current Alexa Skill June 7, 2018 Make your Amazon Echo super funky. Install the Purple Current Alexa Skill to open the stream and get song info. If you create an account, you can make requests and rate songs too.
What are Prince's best vocal performances? July 19, 2018 What is Prince's best vocal performance and why? Tell us your favorites and we'll spin them back on July 27 at noon.
Huey Lewis’s favorite Prince song is ‘Diamonds and Pearls,’ and other things we learned at the Starkey Gala July 16, 2018 The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s So the World May Hear Awards Gala draws celebrities of all kinds to St. Paul’s RiverCentre every year. Although Lin-Manuel Miranda had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, attendees at yesterday’s gala still included music legends like Alice Cooper, Gloria Gaynor, and Paul Williams. The Starkey Hearing Foundation is…
A Prince hotel? In Rolling Stone interviews, estate teases plans for new projects July 13, 2018 A Prince hotel, new merchandise, and music licensed for movies are among the projects mentioned in a new Rolling Stone article about the estate’s plans for the future. After Prince’s death, the contents of his Vault of unreleased music and videos at Paisley Park was sent to a storage facility in Los Angeles. The estate’s…
200 homes to be built on former Prince residential property in Chanhassen July 12, 2018 “There won’t be a Purple Rain Parkway, there won’t be a Little Red Corvette Court, there won’t be a Lovesexy Lane.” So says Chanhassen mayor Denny Laufenburger, telling KSTP about plans to build a residential neighborhood with about 200 houses on a swath of land once owned and occupied by Prince. The 188-acre site on…
Music News: Prince's Bible, other items to be auctioned July 11, 2018 Today's top music news stories include the auction of a Bible formerly owned by Prince, the Boss giving an encore on Broadway, and Whitney Houston's mother reacting to abuse revelations.
Bob Dylan, but not Prince, makes Rolling Stone list of best songs of the century July 10, 2018 Rolling Stone magazine figured that now was as good a time as any to assess the selection of songs that this century has offered to music lovers. They’ve just published an article called “The 100 Greatest Songs of the Century — So Far.” The magazine’s editors say they “reached out to a large group of…