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“IT’S GIVING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AGAIN”

“IT WAS GOING TO BE A TRIPLE ALBUM! HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT”

What’s it like inside the fabled Prince Vault? I was blown away when I first saw it. It’s humbling – you think, ‘What have I done in my life?’ Prince was recording every day for 40 years, and you see that.

He did some labelling, but there’s a lot of tapes we’ve found that are unlabelled, or without a

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