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Prince fans have banned together to fight for justice against the artist and his league of lawyers. Allegedly, Prince's representatives have contacted the three biggest Prince fansites, asking them to remove all visual likeness to the artist from their websites. This includes artwork, photos of Prince merch, and even photos of tattoos in the artist's likeness! WTF ? MORE
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On June 12, 2006, Prince received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his "visionary" use of the Internet; Prince was the first major artist to release an entire album, 1997's Crystal Ball, exclusively on the internet. Ironically, many orders for Crystal Ball that were made on Prince's then-website, 1800newfunk.com, were not received by mail until long after the album was released to record stores
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"Everybody knows what song is going to be played on New Year's Eve 1999," filmmaker Spike Lee remarked to the Artist Formerly Known as Prince as the two conversed for a feature in Interview magazine. The Artist by the late 1990s had indeed become a classic figure of American music, with not only "1999" but ... many other songs having become common musical coin for the nation and the world. An all-around musician with top-notch talents as vocalist, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, he offered music that was his own creation from start to finish. He was perhaps popular music's greatest auteur--a distinctive icon of individual creativity and individual control over the final artistic product.
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Prince is a prolific artist, having released several hundred songs both under his own name and with other artists. Well known as a perfectionist, Prince is highly protective of his music. He produces, composes, arranges and performs nearly all of the songs on his albums. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Few artists have created a body of work as rich and varied as Prince. In the '80s, he became one of the most singular talents of the rock 'n' roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, and rock. Find out more about him!
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