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

ALL 07/08/2014 (en) Music, Documentary 135 Min
  • Release
    07/08/2014
  • Production
    Prism Films
  • Rotten tomato
    63%
  • Original title
    Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Elliot Riddle

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Elliot Riddle

    Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Prince

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Michael Bland

    Self

  3. Alan Leeds

    Self

  4. Marva King

    Self

  5. Joe Levy

    Self

  6. Sonny Thompson

    Self

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 3

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Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business (2014) 135 Min

ALL 07/08/2014 (en)
Music, Documentary
  • Release 07/08/2014
  • Production
    Prism Films
  • Original title Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Elliot Riddle

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Elliot Riddle

    Editor

  4. Producer