Purple Rain

An award-winning screenwriter for the landmark TV projects “Brian’s Song” and “Roots” has died.

The estate of musical legend Prince is objecting to President Donald Trump’s use of a Prince song before a campaign rally in Minneapolis Thursday night. The Trump campaign played Prince’s “Purple Rain” as the audience at the rally waited for the president to begin speaking.

Prince’s surviving family members are asking President Donald Trump to stop using the late rock star’s music at campaign rallies.

Fans of Prince expecting his usual pyrotechnic guitar work will be surprised that one of the first official albums released from his fabled vault since his death more than two years ago showcases his jazzy piano playing.

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots play Prince songs to get excited about Warner Brothers’ re-issue of “Purple Rain,” including a version Prince remastered himself.

A remastered version of Prince’s landmark album “Purple Rain” will be released this summer with several previously unreleased songs. NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records announced Friday that two remastered versions of the 1984 album will be released June 23. The labels said Prince himself oversaw the remastering process in 2015 and the two-disc “Purple Rain Deluxe” set will include...

For Prince fans, Friday’s one-year anniversary of his shocking death from an accidental drug overdose will be a time for sadness and celebration. At his Paisley Park home and recording studio-turned-museum, a full four days of events are on tap, ranging from concert performances by his former bandmates to panel discussions. Fans who can’t afford those high-priced tickets can head...

Prince’s old band is reuniting for some live shows following his death. Members of the Revolution made the announcement in a video posted online Tuesday. Five band members appear in the video, sitting on a couch. Guitarist Wendy Melvoin says the group’s members decided, after spending “three or four days together” grieving Prince’s death, that they would like to “come...

Moments before what turned out to be Prince’s last major performance before a mass TV audience – a monumental eight-minute performance on “Saturday Night Live” in November 2014 – host Chris Rock told the audience: “You are so lucky tonight!” Rock, for once, wasn’t joking: Decked out in tri-lensed psychedelic sunglasses, Prince delivered three songs from two new albums, gliding...

Prince’s career was one of the most enduring in pop, rock, R&B or any of the other genres his music spanned, with hit singles and albums from the late 1970s up into the 2010s. His crowning achievement was “Purple Rain,” a beloved 1984 album that went platinum 13 times over, as well as a movie that turned the unconventional, multitalented...