60 mins did an interesting story on Prince. [www.youtube.com]

8000 songs in the Vault.. and to think we thought the Fully Finished outtakes were a lot

Disappointing Prince Vaults Found To Contain 37,000 Hours Of Billy Joel Covers

CHANHASSEN, MN—Ending rampant speculation regarding the extent of the late musician’s catalogue of unreleased recordings, the executors of Prince’s estate announced Monday that the performer’s famed vault in his Paisley Park residence sadly contains 37,000 hours of Billy Joel covers.

“Prince was constantly creating throughout his career, and after finally accessing his vast trove of previously unheard music, we now know that he produced over 40,000 albums’ worth of material that is, unfortunately, made up entirely of songs originally recorded by Billy Joel,” said attorney L. Londell McMillan, reluctantly admitting that Prince had produced at least 9,000 hours of “Uptown Girl” covers alone.

“We regrettably found a slowed-down, 40-minute version of ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ from the late 1980s, as well as a melodic vocal-only version recorded more recently—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It appears he was still recording pulsing, guitar-driven covers of ‘She’s Always A Woman’ up until his death. Tragically, we could be hearing new Prince tracks covering Billy Joel classics for decades to come.” Dejected executors went on to announce they had discovered Prince’s private journals containing hundreds of pages of additional, updated verses to “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

[entertainment.theonion.com]

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Disappointing Prince Vaults Found To Contain 37,000 Hours Of Billy Joel Covers

CHANHASSEN, MN—Ending rampant speculation regarding the extent of the late musician’s catalogue of unreleased recordings, the executors of Prince’s estate announced Monday that the performer’s famed vault in his Paisley Park residence sadly contains 37,000 hours of Billy Joel covers.

“Prince was constantly creating throughout his career, and after finally accessing his vast trove of previously unheard music, we now know that he produced over 40,000 albums’ worth of material that is, unfortunately, made up entirely of songs originally recorded by Billy Joel,” said attorney L. Londell McMillan, reluctantly admitting that Prince had produced at least 9,000 hours of “Uptown Girl” covers alone.

“We regrettably found a slowed-down, 40-minute version of ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ from the late 1980s, as well as a melodic vocal-only version recorded more recently—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It appears he was still recording pulsing, guitar-driven covers of ‘She’s Always A Woman’ up until his death. Tragically, we could be hearing new Prince tracks covering Billy Joel classics for decades to come.” Dejected executors went on to announce they had discovered Prince’s private journals containing hundreds of pages of additional, updated verses to “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

[entertainment.theonion.com]

Purple Piano Man?

Prolific indeed. He's leaving behind more than Hendrix. I hope there's a lot of concert footage to be released.

Very nice ...
Good to have some nice news from Minneapolis

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Prolific indeed. He's leaving behind more than Hendrix. I hope there's a lot of concert footage to be released.

Well to be fair to Hendrix, the Purple one did have a few more years on him!

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Prolific indeed. He's leaving behind more than Hendrix. I hope there's a lot of concert footage to be released.

From what I've heard, there's at least one full-length "Purple Rain" type movie and one documentary in his vault.

What I hope for is live concert releases uncut on DVD's