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PRINCE 1999 – SUPER DELUXE EDITION

 While he had made some inroads on both the sales charts and urban radio with his first four hot-button, mostly one-man-show albums of the late-’70s and early-’80s, an opening slot on The Rolling Stones’ 1981 tour exposed the narrowmindedness of many concertgoers who outright booed and/or threw things at Prince and his band while they were onstage. That negative reaction was something the Minneapolis native channeled into a much more positive vein when he returned to the studio not long afterward, recording as many songs as he

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