Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business

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Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business (2014)

Directed by Elio Espana

“The revolution that changed the rhythm of the industry.”

Music, Documentary · 2h 15m

In the mid-1990s reports emerged that Prince had fallen into dispute with his record company. Having signed what was ostensibly a new, 100 million dollar contract just a couple of years before, Prince was now demanding - not unreasonably to most commentators - control of his masters and the freedom to release what he wanted when he wanted. After a bitter war of words, during which the star scrawled Slave across his cheek whenever he appeared in public and routinely dissed his label, the parties finally settled and Prince henceforth was free to take full control of his music and the way it was sold to consumers. Prince approached this task with devastating foresight as he routinely created new marketing concepts which, with time, became the norm across the music world.

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Cast

Prince Self (archive footage) Michael Bland Self Alan Leeds Self
M
Marva King Self
J
Joe Levy Self Sonny Thompson Self

Crew

Director
Elio Espana
Editor
Elio Espana

Details

Release date
2014-07-08
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
Music, Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
Prism Films