Sign O’ The Times: Super Deluxe Edition 13LP+DVD Box Set

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Release Date 25 September 2020
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Code: 0603497847099
Format: Vinyl Box Set
Label: Warner

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

Overflowing with musical ideas and topical lyrics that sound just as relevant today as they did when they were initially released, Prince’s iconic double album Sign O’ The Times captured the artist in a period of complete reinvention. The final 16-track album included just some of the countless songs Prince recorded in the prolific period of 1985-1987, which saw the dissolution of his band The Revolution, the construction of his innovative recording complex, Paisley Park, and the creation (and ultimate abandonment) of the albums Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball.

This September 25, The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records/Rhino UK, will reissue Sign O’ The Times. The Super Deluxe Edition will feature the classic album remastered for the very first time, 63 previously unreleased tracks, and a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert performance from Prince’s legendary vault that illuminates his wide-ranging and prolific creativity in this era. Following the successful release of the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition in the fall of 2019, the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition represents the deepest dive to date into Prince’s vault and includes a total of 92 audio tracks across thirteen LPs.

Contents
• 92 audio tracks, of which 63 are previously unreleased, including 45 studio tracks from Prince’s Vault. • Opens with Prince’s iconic album, Sign O’ The Times, dazzlingly remastered for the very first time by Prince’s original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman. • Includes an entire previously unreleased audio recording of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times tour performance in Utrecht, Netherlands, on June 20, 1987.
• DVD features a complete previously unreleased recording of Prince’s benefit performance at Paisley Park, December 31st, 1987. The show includes Prince’s only on-stage collaboration with Miles Davis.
• Housed in a 12” box, and accompanied by a 12” 120-page hardback book featuring:
o 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, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University; Minneapolis radio host and author Andrea Swensson, host of the Official Prince Podcast; and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl.
o Rare and previously unseen photography by Jeff Katz
o Prince’s handwritten lyrics

Tracklist
DVD: Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987 (All unreleased)
1	Sign O’ The Times
2	Play In The Sunshine
3	Little Red Corvette
4	Erotic City
5	Housequake
6	Slow Love
7	Do Me, Baby
8	Adore
9	I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
10	What’s Your Name Jam
11	Let’s Pretend We’re Married
12	Delirious
13	Jack U Off
14	Drum Solo
15	Twelve
16	Hot Thing
17	If I Was Your Girlfriend
18	Let’s Go Crazy
19	When Doves Cry
20	Purple Rain
21	1999
22	U Got The Look
23	It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Medley (feat. Miles Davis)

Tracklist
LP1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)
1	Sign O’ The Times
2	Play In The Sunshine
3	Housequake
4	The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
5	It
6	Starfish And Coffee
7	Slow Love
8	Hot Thing
9	Forever In My Life

Tracklist
LP2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)
1	U Got The Look
2	If I Was Your Girlfriend
3	Strange Relationship
4	I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
5	The Cross
6	It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
7	Adore

Tracklist
LP3&4: Single Mixes & Edits
1	Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)
2	La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)
3	La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit)
4	If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)
5	Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)
6	Shockadelica (12” long version)
7	U Got The Look (Long Look) (12” edit)
8	Housequake (7” edit)
9	Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) (12” edit)
10	I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)
11	Hot Thing (7” single edit)
12	Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
13	Hot Thing (Dub Version)

Tracklist
LP5&6: Vault, Part 1 (All unreleased)
1	I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version)
2	Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)
3	All My Dreams
4	Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
5	Wonderful Day (original version)
6	Strange Relationship (original version)
7	Visions
8	The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
9	Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1)
10	Power Fantastic (live in studio)
11	And That Says What?
12	Love And Sex
13	A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal)
14	Colors
15	Crystal Ball (7” mix)
16	Big Tall Wall (version 1)
17	Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
18	In A Large Room With No Light

Tracklist
LP7&8: Vault, Part 2 (All unreleased)
1	Train
2	It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings
3	Eggplant (Prince vocal)
4	Everybody Want What They Don’t Got
5	Blanche
6	Soul Psychodelicide
7	The Ball
8	Adonis And Bathsheba
9	Forever In My Life (early vocal studio run-through)
10	Crucial (alternate lyrics)
11	The Cocoa Boys
12	When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes
13	Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 2)
14	It Be’s Like That Sometimes

Tracklist
LP9&10: Vault, Part 3 (All unreleased)
1	Emotional Pump
2	Rebirth Of The Flesh (with original outro)
3	Cosmic Day
4	Walkin’ In Glory
5	Wally
6	I Need A Man
7	Promise To Be True
8	Jealous Girl (version 2)
9	There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool
10	Big Tall Wall (version 2)
11	A Place In Heaven (Lisa vocal)
12	Wonderful Day (12” mix)
13	Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)

Tracklist
LP11-13: Live In Utrecht – June 20, 1987 (All unreleased)
1	Intro/Sign O’ The Times
2	Play In The Sunshine
3	Little Red Corvette
4	Housequake
5	Girls & Boys
6	Slow Love
7	Take The “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
8	Hot Thing
9	Four
10	If I Was Your Girlfriend
11	Let’s Go Crazy
12	When Doves Cry
13	Purple Rain
14	1999
15	Forever In My Life
16	Kiss
17	The Cross
18	It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

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