When audio engineer Peggy McCreary was recording Prince for his 1999 album, she didn’t immediately recognize his genius. “I had no idea who he was when I first started working with him,” she recalls.

One of the biggest challenges facing the Prince Estate is what to release from the Vault next: With literally thousands of hours of studio and live outtakes spanning 40 years, there’s no shortage of ...

Dance, Music, Sex, Romance abbreviated to “D.M.S.R.”; that track title neatly sums up 1999, Prince’s fifth album, released in 1982. The purple one’s first double vinyl album (condensed to a single ...

Prince‘s breakthrough into the mainstream will get a new reassessment this year when 1999, the blockbuster 1982 album that contained the hits “1999” and “Little Red Corvette,” comes out as a souped-up ...

For the still-struggling Prince & the Revolution, it was a momentous occasion: free HBO in their motel. It was the fall of 1981 and they were touring the South to promote the album "Controversy." Not ...

A hallmark of Rolling Stone is the magazine’s long lists of superlatives. Rolling Stone has published multiple lists of the greatest songs of all time and the greatest albums of all time. In 2010, ...

In the nearly four years since Prince’s untimely death, his estate has done an exhaustive job of archiving his vast “Vault,” which, considering the artist’s legendary workaholism and sleeplessness ...