STREAMING service Tidal has made 15 rare Prince albums available for streaming on what would have been the star’s 58th birthday.
The collection includes the infamous “Black Album” — a dark, funky follow-up to “Sign O’ the Times,” which Prince scrapped a week before release in 1987.
It also features “The Gold Experience,” which includes his only U.K. number one, “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.”
Prince was a vocal supporter of Jay Z’s streaming service before his death.
He pulled most of his back catalogue from services like Spotify and Apple Music last year, and released his final albums “Hitnrun Phase One” and “Hitnrun Phase Two” as Tidal exclusives.
Prince said in a statement in August 2015: “After one meeting, it was obvious that Jay Z and the team he has assembled at Tidal recognize and applaud the effort that real musicians put in2 their craft 2 achieve the very best they can at this pivotal time in the music industry.”
The new releases mostly comprise material the star recorded after he ended his contract with Warner Bros in 1996.
Prince died April 21 from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl, an opioid many times more powerful than heroin.(SD-Agencies)
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