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Album review: Prince's '1999' keeps on giving in 2019

Prince may have died in 2016, but 2019 is turning out to be a great year for new Prince music. In the last five months, more than four dozen previously unreleased Prince studio recordings have surfaced, many of them ranging from good to extraordinary.

A massive "1999 Super Deluxe" box set (NPG/Warner) due out Nov. 29 reveals that Prince made enough quality music in 1982-83 for at least one or possibly two more stellar albums even as he was crafting the "1999" double album that would prove to be his commercial breakthrough. It sold 4 million copies and yielded his first top-10 single, "Little

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