Glam Slam & Escape (Collective)

NPG's "Jam Of The Year" was released January 31, 1997 with "Face Down" as NYC , (Both recorded live in New York, NY on 11 January 1997) The EP was exclusively available from Prince's NPG retail store called "1-800-NEW-FUNK" and was released only in cassette format. It was marketed as a "4th generation bootleg" and was recorded live at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on January 11, 1997. The first track was "Jam of the Year," the opening song from Prince's 1996 album Em

David Bowie’s "50th Birthday Bash - Fifty in the Park," a one-page review in NME, January 25, 1997. KEVIN CUMMI MINS Frank Black bellows...

David Bowie’s "Little Wonder," a one-page advert in NME, January 20, 1997. Includes mixes by Junior Vasquez and Danny Saber CD2 includes...

David Bowie's "Little Wonder" was released as the second single from his album Earthling on January 20, 1997 accompanied by three...

Ebony Cover & Two-Page Feature (January 1, 1997)

He Speaks – Prince’s cover & two-page guitar feature in Guitare magazine, 2016. More purple vault keys turning weekly. He Speaks (Jan 1, 1997) Are the previous episodes really worth summarizing for the 8745th time? The rise, the fall, the non-interviews, the problems with Warner, the name changes, the marriage to Mayté, the subsequent fatherhood, etc. The fact is that today, the one now called The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (in French, the artist formerly known as Prince

Long live the Electric Warrior – Goldmine crowns Bolan forever! Marc Bolan’s The King of Glam: Long Live Marc Bolan , a cover and fourteen-page tribute article in Goldmine, December 20, 1991.

Prince flips the bird to fame – the symbol man bites back! NME cover, December 14, 1996.

Emancipation's Poster Sleeve Gem Released as a CD/cassette single in the UK on December 2, 1996, on EMI/NPG Records (catalogue: CDEM 463 / CDEMS 463), The Artist (Formerly Known As Prince)’s “Betcha By Golly Wow!” — his lush cover of The Stylistics’ 1972 classic — was the first single from Emancipation and the first cover version ever released as a Prince single. Backed with “Right Back Here In My Arms,” this romantic ballad came in standard jewel case, limited edition with

A Triple-Disc Freedom Symphony released worldwide by NPG Records/EMI (catalogue: 7243 8 54982 2 0 / CDEMD 1102) on November 19, 1996. 0(+>'s Emancipation 3×CD was the first post-Warner Bros. album, this 36-track, 3-hour celebration of marriage to Mayte Garcia and freedom from his old contract features covers (“Betcha by Golly Wow!”, “La, La, La Means I Love U”, “One of Us”), Kate Bush on “My Computer”, and samples from Funkadelic, Tower of Power, and Ice Cube. Issued as 3×CD,