NPG, Warner Bros. Records Release Purple Rain Remastered Deluxe Editions

NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records on Friday released Prince’s iconic Purple Rain album in new deluxe and deluxe-expanded edition formats. The release features a three-CD Purple Rain deluxe set that includes Prince’s 2015 remaster of the original tapes from the award-winning soundtrack. Suggested Reading Orlando Teens In Big Trouble After Door Knock Prank Goes…

NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records on Friday released Prince’s iconic Purple Rain album in new deluxe and deluxe-expanded edition formats. The release features a three-CD Purple Rain deluxe set that includes Prince’s 2015 remaster of the original tapes from the award-winning soundtrack.

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The deluxe edition includes rarities like 1984’s “Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden,” the 1983 instrumental “Father’s Song,” as well as songs that have been highly bootlegged and never released, including “Possessed”—the ’83 Prince solo version, never heard before; “Electric Intercourse”; “Father’s Song”—written by Prince’s father—and which was previously just a minute-and-a-half snippet in the movie; “We Can Fuck”; and “Katrina’s Paper Dolls.”

And for those über Prince fans, the Purple Rain deluxe-expanded edition includes B sides and comes with an additional DVD of a Prince concert held on March 30, 1985, at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.

To coincide with the release, Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn., is hosting a screening of Purple Rain. Check the site for tickets. The deluxe-expanded edition can be purchased on Amazon.com.

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