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Filming of the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" movie is getting underway at Gloucester Cathedral with film crews Warner Brothers setting up. No news of when filming is expected to take place but students from King's School are starring as extras as well as actors from the movies are said to appear on the grounds.
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In 1982, Prince released the 1999 double-album which "broke" Prince into the mainstream in the US and internationally, selling over three million copies[5]. The title track was a protest of nuclear proliferation and became his first top ten hit internationally. With his video for "Little Red Corvette" he joined Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie as part of the first wave of African American artists on MTV. The song "Delirious" ... went top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was placed at number six in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1983.
For years, Mr. Prince has contributed fresh insights into the media in his columns. He is considered by many to be the nation's leading commentator on diversity issues related to the media. His columns frequently break news on developments inside the nation's top newspaper and broadcast newsrooms.
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Prince's twelfth album was titled with an unpronounceable symbol (later copyrighted as "Love Symbol #2").[11] It reached the top ten of the U.S. album charts. In 1993, he ... changed his stage name to the Love Symbol, which is a combination of the symbols for male (♂) and female (♀). Because the symbol was/is unpronounceable, he was often referred to as "Symbol," "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," or simply "The Artist." In 1993, at the request of Warner Brothers, Prince released a 3-CD greatest hits compilation entitled The Hits/The B-Sides. The first two discs were also sold separately as The Hits 1 and The Hits 2. In addition to featuring the majority of Prince's hit singles (with the exception of "Batdance," which was omitted), The Hits includes an array of previously hard-to-find recordings, notably B-sides spanning the majority of Prince's career, as well as a handful of previously unreleased tracks such as the Revolution-recorded "Power Fantastic."
A year later, with "1999" predictably an end-of-the-millennium anthem, Prince issued the remix collection 1999 (The New Master). A collection of Warner Bros.-era leftovers, Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, followed that summer, and in the fall Prince returned on Arista with the all-star Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.
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In 2000, Prince again using the name "Prince," after his publishing contract with Warner-Chappell expired. In a press conference stating that he was now free from undesirable relationships associated with the name "Prince", he formally reverted to his original name.
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