Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business

Overview

In the mid-1990s reports emerged that Prince had fallen into dispute with his record company. Having signed what was ostensibly a new, 100 million dollar contract just a couple of years before, Prince was now demanding - not unreasonably to most commentators - control of his masters and the freedom to release what he wanted when he wanted. After a bitter war of words, during which the star scrawled Slave across his cheek whenever he appeared in public and routinely dissed his label, the parties finally settled and Prince henceforth was free to take full control of his music and the way it was sold to consumers. Prince approached this task with devastating foresight as he routinely created new marketing concepts which, with time, became the norm across the music world.

Cast

Prince

Self (archive footage)

Michael Bland

Self

Alan Leeds

Self

M

Marva King

Self

J

Joe Levy

Self

Sonny Thompson

Self

Similar Movies

Elvis: The Lost Performances

1992•★ 7.1

Mou Piri: A Rarotongan Love Song

2013•★ 10.0

On fait toutes du show-business

19850

Kate Bush at the BBC

2014•★ 5.7

Die Helene Fischer Show 2011

20110

Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway

2017•★ 6.4

You Might Also Like

Prince: Rave Un2 the Year 2000

1999•★ 7.3

Box

2021•★ 6.2

Fate

2003•★ 3.5

Strange Object

2020•★ 6.0

Recital Jiří Suchý – Jiří Šlitr

1965•★ 6.0

Parkour!!! (and corruption with a Q)!

•★ 5.2