Prince Sign "O" The Times Super Deluxe Edition 13xLP (180 gram)+DVD

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Prince Sign "O" The Times Super Deluxe Edition 13xLP (180 gram)+DVD. Condition is "New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.

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“I feel that we’re on the brink of something. It is going to be strict and wild and pretty.” — Prince, 1986

More than any other release in his four-decade-long recording career, Prince's iconic double album Sign O' The Times captured the artist in a period of complete reinvention.


Primarily recorded between the end of 1985 and beginning of 1987, the era saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the end of his engagement to Susannah Melvoin, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball. By the end of that period of transformation, Prince emerged with one of his most urgent and wide-ranging releases to date — an epochal double album that would be hailed as a creative, critical, and commercial triumph.


The Super Deluxe Edition includes all the audio material that Prince officially released in 1987, as well as 45 previously unissued studio songs recorded between May 1979 and July 1987, and a complete live audio performance from the June 20, 1987 stop on the Sign O’ The Times Tour at Stadium Galgenwaard in Utrecht, The Netherlands.


Also included is a brand-new DVD containing the complete, previously unreleased New Year’s Eve benefit concert at Paisley Park on December 31, 1987, which was Prince’s final performance of the Sign O’ The Times Tour stage show and his only on-stage collaboration with jazz legend Miles Davis.


The Super Deluxe Edition set also features a 120-page hardcover book containing Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for many of the songs from the era, including the hits “U Got The Look,” “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man,” and “Hot Thing,” iconic unseen images from the era taken by Prince’s primary photographer in the mid-1980s to early 90s, Jeff Katz, plus images of archive assets including original analog tape reels and studio tracking sheets.

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The Super Deluxe Edition book is completed with brand-new liner notes by Prince’s creative peers and friends Dave Chappelle (in conversation with photographer Mathieu Bitton) and Lenny Kravitz; Prince’s longtime engineer Susan Rogers; Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University; Minneapolis radio host and author Andrea Swensson, host of the Official Prince Podcast; and Prince scholar and author Duane Tudahl.


Deluxe Edition 13 LP + DVD Set


Remastered Album (LP 1)


    Sign O’ The Times

    Play In The Sunshine

    Housequake

    The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

    It

    Starfish And Coffee

    Slow Love

    Hot Thing

    Forever In My Life


Remastered Album (LP 2)


    U Got The Look

    If I Was Your Girlfriend

    Strange Relationship

    I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

    The Cross

    It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

    Adore


Single Mixes & Edits (LP 3 & LP 4)


    Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)

    La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)

    La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive)

    If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)

    Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)

    Shockadelica (12” long version)

    U Got the Look (Long Look) (12” edit)

    Housequake (7” edit)

    Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)

    I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)

    Hot Thing (7” single edit)

    Hot Thing (Extended Remix)

    Hot Thing (Dub Version)


Vault, Part 1 (LP 5 & LP 6)

All tracks previously unreleased


    I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version)

    Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)

    All My Dreams

    Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)

    Wonderful Day (original version)

    Strange Relationship (original version)

    Visions

    The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns)

    Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1)

    Power Fantastic (live in studio)

    And That Says What?

    Love And Sex

    A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal)

    Colors

    Crystal Ball (7” mix)

    Big Tall Wall (version 1)

    Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A

    In A Large Room With No Light


Vault, Part 2 (LP 7 & LP 8)

All tracks previously unreleased


    Train

    It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings

    Eggplant (Prince vocal)

    Everybody Want What They Don’t Got

    Blanche

    Soul Psychodelicide

    The Ball

    Adonis And Bathsheba

    Forever In My Life (early vocal studio run-through)

    Crucial (alternate lyrics)

    The Cocoa Boys

    When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes

    Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 2)

    It Be’s Like That Sometimes


Vault, Part 3 (LP 9 & LP 10)

All tracks previously unreleased


    Emotional Pump

    Rebirth Of The Flesh (with original outro)

    Cosmic Day

    Walkin’ In Glory

    Wally

    I Need A Man

    Promise To Be True

    Jealous Girl (version 2)

    There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool

    Big Tall Wall (version 2)

    A Place In Heaven (Lisa vocal)

    Wonderful Day (12” mix)

    Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)


Live In Utrecht (LP 11, LP 12 & LP 13)

All tracks previously unreleased


    Intro/Sign O’ The Times

    Play In The Sunshine

    Little Red Corvette

    Housequake

    Girls & Boys

    Slow Love

    Take The “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

    Hot Thing

    Four (With Sheila E. Drum Solo)

    If I Was Your Girlfriend

    Let’s Go Crazy

    When Doves Cry

    Purple Rain

    1999

    Forever In My Life

    Kiss

    The Cross

    It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night


Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987 (DVD)

All tracks previously unreleased


    Sign O’ The Times

    Play In The Sunshine

    Little Red Corvette

    Erotic City

    Housequake

    Slow Love

    Do Me, Baby

    Adore

    I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

    What’s Your Name Jam

    Let’s Pretend We’re Married

    Delirious

    Jack U Off

    Drum Solo

    Twelve

    Hot Thing

    If I Was Your Girlfriend

    Let’s Go Crazy

    When Doves Cry

    Purple Rain

    1999

    U Got The Look

    It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Medley (featuring Miles Davis)


* N.B. video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.