On This Day
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16 December
Recordings
Concerts
- 1979 –
Minneapolis, MN, USA: Orpheum Theatre (canceled)
- 1982 –
Memphis, TN, USA: Mid-South Coliseum (canceled)
- 1982 – Nashville, TN, USA: Municipal Auditorium
- 1984 –
Lexington, KY, USA: Rupp Arena (canceled)
- 1997 – Ames, IA, USA: Hilton Coliseum
- 1998 – Lisbon, Portugal: Lux Frágil (a.m.)
- 2002 – Las Vegas, NV, USA: Studio 54 @ MGM Grand Hotel (a.m.)
- 2003 – Honolulu, HI, USA: Neil S. Blaisdell Arena
- 2007 – Opa Locka, FL, USA: Turnberry Aviation hangar @ Opa Locka Executive Airport (a.m.) (private party)
- 2010 – East Rutherford, NJ, USA: Izod Hospitality Room (a.m.)
- 2011 – Vancouver, BC, Canada: Rogers Arena
Performances
Miscellaneous
- 1982 – MTV adds the video for 1999 to their rotation schedule. While a seemingly minor event, this is said to be one of the moments that dramatically changed Prince's career, making his music accessible to an entire new audience
- 2008 - A new website, MPLSound.com, streams (There'll Never B) Another Like Me (Inst Short Edit) without an artist credit (two days later this would be revealed as a Prince track)
Associated Artists
- 1982 – The Time perform in Nashville, TN, USA: Municipal Auditorium, supporting Prince
- 1982 – Vanity 6 perform in Nashville, TN, USA: Municipal Auditorium, supporting Prince
- 1995 – Mayte performs at Glam Slam in Miami Beach, FL, USA (a.m.) A brief 20 minute set which included five of her tracks
15 December ◄ 16 December ► 17 December Prince history calendar
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Did You Know?
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From our newest additions:
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- ... that Sign O' The Times was the most added single in both Billboard "Radio Most Added" sections of Hot Black and Hot 100 Singles Actions charts on 7 March 1987?
- ... that Pain is Prince's reworking of a song called Joy And Pain, written by D. Channsin Berry?
- ... that Purple Rain Home Video remained 12 consecutive weeks at position 1 in Billboard Top Videocassette sales chart?
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Feature Release
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1999 Deluxe
Released: 29 November 2019
Type:
Studio remaster / reissue
Length:
5 CDs + 1 DVD / 10 LP + 1 DVD
Label(s):
Warner Records / NPG Records
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Description: 1999 Deluxe is the deluxe remaster box set of Prince's fifth album 1999, including a disc of b-sides/edits/remixes, two discs of previously-unreleased vault tracks, audio of a full 1999 Tour concert and a DVD of another show from the same tour.
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The Beautiful Ones book
Released: 29 October 2019
Type:
Book release
Length:
288 pages
Label(s):
Spiegel & Grau
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Description: The Beautiful Ones is Prince's unfinished memoir with co-author Dan Piepenbring. The full manuscript that Prince originally wrote is supplemented with dozens of pages with unseen pictures and handwritten song lyrics from Prince's own archive. The book appeared translated in six languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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Celebrating
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5 October 2019
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold, is released in the USA as the lead single of the Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic album. > > > Read More
19 October 2019
Prince's eponymous second album Prince, was released in the USA on 19 October 1979. > > > Read More
11 November 2019
Prince's 23rd studio album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic was released in the USA on 11 November 1999 . > > > Read More
22 November 2019
Prince's 16th album The Black Album, was released in the USA on 22 November 1994. > > > Read More
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In Memoriam
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Feature Book
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Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984
Duane Tudahl
We highly recommend and endorse the Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback) book, by Duane Tudahl.
This is an updated edition of the fantastic book that provides incredible detail about Prince's studio sessions in 1983 and 1984. This 2018 paperback edition has 30 pages more information with newly uncovered dates and new interviews with people that reached out to Duane after the first edition of the book was published. Over 20 years of research by Duane Tudahl has provided a look behind the curtain, revealing the sheer brilliance of Prince's work in the studio. Duane Tudahl, like some PrinceVault staff members has been associated with Uptown Magazine and the bulk of the details on studio sessions and dates on PrinceVault is based his research, along with other Uptown Magazine writers. This book is the next level of that research. For nearly every song between 1983 and 1984, Duane Tudahl has uncovered more detailed information and presents it in a fresh and exciting narrative that takes the reader into the studio with Prince, revealing the creative process.
We are very pleased that Duane Tudahl has once more graciously allowed us to update pages on PrinceVault with the new information from the updated book. We would like to strongly encourage you to use this link to purchase the updated edition of the book. Princevault.com provides the specifications, the book provides the story that is Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions.
jooZt Mattheij – PrinceVault editor
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Resources
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Bibliography
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Although technically an odd-one-out section on PrinceVault, we have recently updated the list of all 'non-affiliated' books on Prince with over 40 new books that came out since 2016. > > > Read More
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Biographies
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We've recently updated and elaborated on biography pages for Rosie Gaines and others, check it out. > > > Read More
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Interviews
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Interviews is a comprehensive list of all interviews Prince gave throughout his career. > > > Read More
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Award Shows Attended
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Awards Attended is a list of all awards shows Prince attended, and was part of the ceremony, listed in chronological order > > > Read More
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Rescheduled or Canceled Concerts
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Rescheduled or Canceled Concerts is a non-exhaustive list including all known rescheduled and canceled concerts in Prince's concert history > > > Read More
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Prince: All Charts
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All Charts is a survey of Prince singles and albums that have charted in a selection of countries around the world > > > Read More
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