Prince - The Dangerous Price of Prince's Obsessive Perfection

‪@RememberToRewind‬ In 1993, one of the most famous musicians on earth stopped using his own name and replaced it with a symbol nobody could pronounce. Soon after, he appeared in public with one word written on his face: "slave." Why would a man who had sold millions of records call himself that? This is the story of Prince Rogers Nelson and his long fight to own his music and his name. From a childhood in Minneapolis, where even his name came from his father's stage name, to a rare 1977 deal with Warner Bros. Records that gave him creative control, Prince played all 27 instruments on his first album, For You, and quietly produced other artists under the name Jamie Starr. Then came Purple Rain: the number one album, single and film in the United States at the same time, a feat only Elvis Presley and the Beatles had achieved before him. But behind the fame was a problem most fans never saw. The masters of his biggest hits did not belong to him. We follow his war with his record label, the symbol, "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," Emancipation, selling music directly to fans online, the Musicology Tour, the Super Bowl halftime show in the rain and 21 sold-out nights at The O2 Arena, all the way to the moment the story finally turns. We also look, with care, at his final tour, Piano & A Microphone, at what happened in April 2016, and at what he left behind: no will, an estate valued at about $156 million, Paisley Park turned into a museum and a vault that is still giving us music. At the center of it all is one question: who should own an artist's work? Subscribe, and tell us in the comments whose story we should tell next. #Prince #PurpleRain #MusicDocumentary #MusicHistory #PaisleyPark