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Born of record-company battles, Laziness and creative breakdowns, the drama surrounds a "LOST" album. Gathering dust in a vault somewhere, That would change music history...??Would Prince and Miles Davies collaboration have blended jazz and pop into a new form that would have supplated hip-hop.....???Would a hardcore psychedelic Beach boys albumhave overtaken Sgt,Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band in the national consciousness ....??? Or would they have been the comtemporary viyl versions of Battlefield Earth..??? In some cases, its impossible to know. Separating fact from Myth , here are 10 of the most hyped musical Non-released events of the last half-century.




#3..Prince & Miles Davis , Crucial ( 1984 & 1985 ) Why wouldnt a collaboration between these two musicial giants see the light of day..?? Probably because it never happened. According to Alan Leeds, Princes tour manager and vice president of pasley records in the 1980's. He may want to talk to Prince himself before he says any more. In an interview with Spin Magazine prince was quoted as saying " my new record will be out before winter, me and miles have just finished up studio work " Ultimately both miles and prince decided the didnt fit on Miles Davis up coming soon to be released Lp. Nor did it fit the follow up to the purple rain tour work he had already finished. In the Miles Davis Box set you can find one of the songs writen by Prince and Davis. That seems to be the closet we will ever get. The legal battle over who owns the songs. Now that miles has past on. Has only just started. In 2002 Pasley park said there was no studio tapes left. That they could not be found in archives.

khemseraph said:

This all reads as if it is poorly researched

The first known/reported contact between Prince and Miles Davis was in 1985 so I can't see why there's any reference to 1984.

The Purple Rain tour ended in April 1985, and the next album, 'Around The World In A Day' was released later that month.

Prince sent the tape of 'Can I Play With U?' to Davis at the end of 1985.

There were plans to include something on Davis' next studio album.

Davis recorded on the tape sent to him by Prince, and then returned it. Either Davis didn't think it fitted on 'Tutu' ultimately, or Prince asked Miles not to include - both stories have circulated. There could be truth in both for all we know.

'Parade' was released by Prince in March 1986.

'Crucial' together with many other songs were recorded in 1986. Some of those songs leaked, and together with 'Can I Play With U?', they were assembled at least a year later on a bootleg with the incorrect assumption that the tracks featured both Prince and Miles.

Alan Leeds would never dispute that there has, in some sense been collaboration between Prince and Miles. Aside from Prince giving some material to Davis, which he played around with both live and in the studio, Davis also recorded on Chaka Khan's recording of Prince's 'Sticky Wicked', and he performed with Prince briefly on 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night' at the New Year's Eve Benefit Concert, 1987 at Paisley Park

As far as I'm aware, Alan Leeds has simply asserted (and correctly so, to the best of anyone's reported knowledge) that he was unaware of any studio work that Prince and Davis undertook together i.e. same time, same song, same studio.

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