People dance to Prince music as a slide show flashes images of the artist during a memorial dance party at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2016 One of the world's rarest records has resurfaced -- several vinyl copies of Prince's 'Black Album,' which the eccentric pop legend had demanded destroyed 30 years ago. Recordmecca, a collector's site owned by a former executive on Prince's Warner Brothers label, on Wednesday was selling a coveted sealed vinyl copy of the album for $15,000. The 'Purple Rain' star, then at the height of his fame, in December 1987 sought to release music like no one had attempted before -- sending it to stores completely secretly, without his name or any art on it. Warner, with which he had legendary feuds, discouraged Prince but eventually relented and ordered the pressing of the vinyl -- which has no actual title but was informally called the 'Black Album' for its blank, dark cover. But Prince soon afterward declared that he had a spiritual revelation that the album was 'evil' and demanded the destruction of all copies. Warner largely succeeded in seizing and destroying the more than 500,000 copies at their factories.

But Recordmecca owner Jeff Gold, who worked with Prince at Warner, said he was recently contacted by a fellow former executive who came upon five copies. Gold said that the executive, who requested anonymity, had been sending records to his own daughter, who had bought a first turntable amid vinyl's rebirth. Sifting through his collection, the executive discovered two envelopes distributed within Warner. Free Adobe Designer Es4 Download 2016 - Full Version 2016 more. Inside were five copies of the 'Black Album.'

'For 30 years, the two mailers had sat unopened among their other boxed-up vinyl,' Gold wrote. The former executive decided to sell three copies.

On a recent track, rapper Jay Z enigmatically bragged: 'Prince left his masters where they safe and sound—we never gonna let the elevator take him down.' The lyric now makes a lot more sense. Tidal, Jay Z's subscription music streaming platform, just dropped 15 rare Prince albums from the late singer's. Vinyl Copies Of Prince's Rare Black Album Discovered Christian Eede, December 15th, 2017 14:42. A former Warner Brothers executive who worked on Prince's infamous unreleased Black Album has discovered a handful of vinyl copies of the album.

Gold was offering one copy online, saying he already sold another one directly and would list the third one later. Gold said he would attach certificates of authenticity.

Prince in late 1994 finally released the 'Black Album' on limited-edition CDs and cassettes but not vinyl, making the record a holy grail for record collectors. Prince resented Warner's constraints and in the 1990s changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in hopes of getting out of contractual conditions. He finally made peace with Warner in 2014 in a deal that gave him control over his classic albums.

He died two years later at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota from an accidental overdose of painkillers.

'Prince knew this was going to be it,' says Susan Rogers, who engineered the 14 million seller Purple Rain. 'He was ecstatic when he finished it.' Over five years later, the influence of and Purple Rain is incontestable. He is one of just two artists (along with Bruce Springsteen) to have four albums among Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. Download Lagu Sesungguhnya Aku Tak Rela Melihat Kau Dengannya there. And perhaps more than any other artist, Prince called the tune for pop music in the Eighties, imprinting his Minneapolis sound on an entire generation of musicians, both black and white. Released in tandem with the film of the same name, Purple Rain was more than simply a soundtrack, and it stands as Prince's most cohesive and accessible album. 'He envisioned the film as he made the album,' says Alan Leeds, vice-president of Paisley Park Records, Prince's label.

'He had a vision in his mind of the film a year before he got in front of the cameras, and he wrote the music to that vision.' Purple Rain contained five hit singles, including his first singles to reach Number One, 'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy,' as well as 'Purple Rain,' which reached Number Two. It was also the first Prince album to prominently feature his band the Revolution. 'The band gelled when [guitarist] Wendy Melvoin joined,' says drummer Bobby Z. 'We were recording and writing and doing it. We all worked hard and did this music together.' Some of the album's success — and certainly its reception by radio — was possible because Prince downplayed the overt sexuality of previous records.