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Vault Clippings: Press & Stories
A curated collection of interviews, vintage adverts, reviews, and the stories behind the music. Vault Clippings gathers rare press materials and cultural ephemera that illuminate Prince’s eras, releases, and creative world. This section preserves the media history surrounding the Minneapolis Sound, offering context, commentary, and hard‑to‑find insights.


The End of a Purple Reign: 1986
Cover and two pages of sounds, May 17, 1986.

GlamSlamEscape
May 16, 1986


Ladies Waiting: Apr 1986
“Wendy and Lisa — Prince’s Women”

GlamSlamEscape
Apr 23, 1986


📰 Prince’s Parade Era Unfolds – 2 Articles: Mar. 1986
A stylish, cinematic pivot — Parade arrives as Prince’s most artful and enigmatic statement yet, reshaping both his sound and his city.energized, and backed by a revamped Revolution, unveiling new Parade material and reimagining his catalog in an intimate club that had shaped his legend.

GlamSlamEscape
Mar 30, 1986


📰 Prince Heads Back to Nice – Article: Mar. 1986
Prince returns to France to refine his film and expand the visual world of Parade, just as the album reaches store shelves.

GlamSlamEscape
Mar 28, 1986


📰 Land of 10,000 Grooves – Article: Mar. 1986
Minneapolis dominates the national charts while its musicians gather to learn, grow, and follow the path Prince helped carve.

GlamSlamEscape
Mar 21, 1986


📰 A Surprise Night at First Avenue – Article: Mar. 1986
Jon Bream’s review captures the thrill of a night Minneapolis never saw coming: Prince, smiling, energized, and backed by a revamped Revolution, unveiling new Parade material and reimagining his catalog in an intimate club that had shaped his legend.

GlamSlamEscape
Mar 4, 1986


Romance and the Single Girl: 1985
Sky Magazine Cover & Two-Page Feature October 15, 1985.

Escape
Oct 15, 1985


Prince Talks: Sept. 1985
Hard time is how life has traditionally been clocked in North Minneapolis; this is the place ’Time’ forgot twelve years ago when the magazine’s cover trumpeted “The Good Life in Minnesota,”

Escape
Sep 11, 1985




📰 Food Drives & Film Futures – Article: Mar. 1985
A global broadcast, a record‑breaking food drive, and new film ambitions — Prince’s world in March 1985 was expanding in every direction at once.

GlamSlamEscape
Mar 31, 1985
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