Prince--yeag, yeah, the Artist-formerly-known-as-the-same-person=he-always-was--came to New York Tuesday night to launch a new album.

Unfortunately, he didn't bother to show until almost 1 a.m. at Jimmy's Uptown in Harlem, not the 11:30 p.m. mentioned in today's New York Post.

He kept everyone waiting including media hounds from the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. He even made the kids from American Idol stay up past their bedtimes.

His long-delayed arrival was never explained. It couldn't be anyway. The people who work for Prince told me during the interminable wait that the Purple One doesn't even bother calling them.

"He text-messages when he wants something done," said one Princely source. "There isn't a lof of communication."

Indeed, there was so little communication that mick Jagger, who was promised all night as the big guest star of the soiree, never showed.

Interestingly, Prince's party was for something no one wants or needs: a three-CD live set. But get this: The thing isn't out yet--and may not even be finished

So what was the point of going all the way up to Jimmy's Uptown? It seemed to be just an excuse for masochists to be pushed around by ex-con or future-con-looking security guards who protected no one from anything.

Prince, who now releases his own records after having fought with everone in the business, had better get a grip. His last hit, "The Most Beautiful Girl," was almost a decade ago. He has rapidly become a nostalgia act, mixing fond hits of the past with incomprehensible new material. I used to think he was a genius, but now...

Here's a better question: how is it that Elvis Costello and a number of acts are eligiblee for induction into the so-called Rock & Roll of Fame, but so far Prince's name has not come up? He released his first album the same year (1977) as Costello and had matched him release for release. Or has Suzan Evans Hochberg, who's paid $300,000 a year to figure out who's worthy each year, forgotten him?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,64148,00.html

Like anyone cares what this asshole says. He is from Fox News, so I am not surprised.

I bet a lot of people might want a live cd by Prince, if it is promoted right. Stranger things have happened. At least it isn't some overrated Springsteen album exploiting 9/11.

This dude is bitter as all HELL...

How interesting. Nobody wants or needs this boxed set, is that right? So, lemme see. Prince has sold out, (some in record time), every venue that he has played at on the ONA tour, sold out Celebration, and has obviously done well enough with the NPGMC to not only continue it for a second year but to expand the scope of it as well. Did I also forget to mention the virtually universal praise for the tour that you can find in a newspaper from any city that he has played in since the beginning of this year? Obviously the author of this article has no idea what he is speaking about and did no research whatsoever about the subject matter. Just because Prince isn't burning up billboard doesn't mean that he doesn't have an audience, and just because some ignorant fool from Fox News doesn't care about the box set doesn't mean that THOSE OF US WHO WERE AT THE WARNER IN D.C., AVERY FISHER AND THE WORLD IN NEW YORK, AND EVERY OTHER VENUE OF THE TOUR ARE DYING FOR THIS ALBUM!

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RIGHT ON!!

1977...?

Nope you Ass! It's 1978...'For You'

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Yes, it's 1978. Prince is eligible next year. This guy should do his homework.