Hunting for Prince's Vault
Does Prince really have thousands of unreleased tracks hidden in an underground vault? Mobeen Azhar travels to Minneapolis to find out the hidden chapter of this man鈥檚 story.
On September 25th 2020 Sign of the Times Deluxe was released, featuring remastered tracks from the classic 1987 album and 63 previously unreleased tracks from Prince鈥檚 legendary vault.
This programme 鈥� recorded in 2015, prior to Prince鈥檚 untimely death 鈥� is a journey into the whirlwind creative impulses which animate one of pop music鈥檚 most respected figures. Mobeen Azhar visited Minneapolis and Los Angeles to talk to musicians, proteges and engineers who portrayed Prince as modern day Mozart with an unrelenting urge to make music. Composer Brent Fischer and prot茅g茅 Cat Glover shared details of their favourite songs from the vault. Sound engineer Susan Rogers provided a rare insight into why a lot of that material wasn鈥檛 released prior to Prince鈥檚 death.
Former band mates Sonny T, Michael Bland and Eric Leeds talked about Prince鈥檚 creative process and manager Alan Leeds explained why the music in the vault is such an important part of Prince鈥檚 legacy.
Producers: Ben Carter and Mobeen Azhar
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Contributors include:
Sonny Thompson, childhood friend and bass guitarist with the New Power Generation
Susan Rogers, Prince's studio engineer from 1985-1989
Matt (Dr) Fink, keyboard player
Catherine (Cat) Glover, part of Prince's Sign O The Times and Lovesexy bands
Eric Leeds, saxophonist
Michael Bland, drummer with the New Power Generation
Alan Leeds, tour manager and head of Paisley Park Records from 1986-1992
Hans Martin Buff, Prince's former sound engineer
Broadcasts
- Sat 21 Mar 2015 20:05GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
- Sun 22 Mar 2015 10:05GMT麻豆社 World Service Online