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Sign O’ The Times: Super Deluxe Edition WARNERS

ACCORDING to the first of the newly unearthed ‘vault’ tracks, chronologically ordered on this abundant 8CD Super Deluxe Edition, Prince started work on back in 1979. The early demo of “Idazzling third side, it had been lavishly kitted out with an air-punching synth hook, a wailing guitar solo and a moody jazz-funk coda. On paper, it sounds fatally overcooked – but is one of those rare occasions when more really is more.

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