Purple Rain Deluxe Expaded

"Can't Slow Down" is the 2nd solo studio album by American recording artist Lionel Richie. It was released on October 11, 1983 by Motown Records. It has sold over 20 million copies, and is Richie's best-selling album of all time. Five singles were released from "Can't Slow Down", all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached #1: "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". The album also won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985. The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. It also spent 59 consecutive weeks inside the Top 10 (including the entire year of 1984) and a total of 160 weeks (over 3 years) on the Billboard 200. After being the third best-selling album of 1984, it went on to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985, beating out such heavyweight contenders as "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen and "Purple Rain" by Prince. By 1986 the album had sold 15 million copies, eventually selling over 20 million.

What is the ultimate fantasy of Purple Rain? To have scissor sex with Apollonia Kotera? An orgy with Jill Jones? Mating with Jerome Benton and Billy Sparks having a fish sandwich? These were all possible in your mind but one reality of a fantasy of Purple Rain is this: a fan-made compilation of what would the Purple Rain be like if it could have been made better? This is that better, a make-believe 2LP reconstruction of Prince's 1984 album. This version makes a few adjustments, adds songs recording during the era but not used plus adds two tracks for fun and leisure. No B-sides, just a fantasy like Aldo Nova. This was released by… no one, this doesn't exist on compact disc, it's all a dream like Christopher Wallace's T-bone steak, cheese, eggs and Welch's grape jelly sandwich.

From the former senior editor of Rolling Stone and author of The Holy or the Broken, called "thoughtful and illuminating" by The New York Times, a new book on the unlikely coming to be of Prince's now legendary album.

Already an unstoppable force in the record racks and in concert halls, by 1984 Prince was a hit at the box office too. The smash soundtrack album to his self-starring feature Purple Rain cemented Prince into the history books, while his reputation as a musical genius went ballistic. The record has now sold in excess of 25 million copies, featuring as it does five Top 30 singles, including two No. 1s. The album and the film saw a huge resurgence of interest in 2016, following Prince s sudden death, and he received a posthumous American Music Award for this pivotal work. Unsurprisingly, every track from Purple Rain became a firm favourite in Prince s concert repertoire, and notable performances of such have at times surpassed even the majesty of the studio versions. This collection brings such hallowed recordings together for the first time, reproducing Purple Rain in its entirety, and in the process producing a live compilation on CD that will undoubtedly find a place in the collections of every proper Prince fan in existence. Total Running Time: 61 Minutes.

Prince had a prolific output, releasing 39 albums during his life, with a vast array of unreleased projects left in a vault at his home after his death. It is believed that the vault contains dozens of fully produced albums and over 50 music videos that have never been released, along with various other media. He released hundreds of songs both under his own name and multiple pseudonyms during his life, as well as writing songs that were made famous by other musicians, such as "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "Manic Monday".