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Thread started 10/24/19 8:26pm

rogifan

Why isn’t Purple Rain on the official Prince YouTube channel?

I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?

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Reply #1 posted 10/24/19 8:31pm

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Ask the folks that run the 'official' Prince youtube biggrin

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Reply #2 posted 10/24/19 10:00pm

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There are other videos missing during the 2017-2018 phase of the channel, like Peach and serval other D&P videos.

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Reply #3 posted 10/25/19 7:14am

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No one is interested in lesser-known songs such as Purple Rain.

The important thing is that every second of the Cafe de Paris gig has been sliced up and served individually, that's what fans really want smile

PS no sign of "Peach" either sad

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Reply #4 posted 10/25/19 12:35pm

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ian said:

PS no sign of "Peach" either sad

Then they shouldn't have uploaded "Pink Cashmere" then. Clip montage not of interest (also, "Letitgo" isn't on the channel for the same reason)

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Reply #5 posted 10/25/19 1:16pm

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rogifan said:

I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?


There was no official video created for the song Purple Rain.
What you do see, is a slice of the film itself.
Of course, they could take that slice and put it online (but Warner Music and Warner Brothers Films are two separate companies now). One of those owns the official rights to all of the movie soundtracks.

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Reply #6 posted 10/25/19 2:39pm

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laytonian said:

rogifan said:

I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?


There was no official video created for the song Purple Rain.
What you do see, is a slice of the film itself.
Of course, they could take that slice and put it online (but Warner Music and Warner Brothers Films are two separate companies now). One of those owns the official rights to all of the movie soundtracks.

But hang on! I think the Codfather's video has the introdocution mentioning that Wendy and Lisa wrote it, while the 7:05 version on the Purple Rain DVD doesn't.

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Reply #7 posted 10/25/19 6:52pm

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Because yall kept compaining about 1984 and the focus on Purple Rain

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Reply #8 posted 10/25/19 8:17pm

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https://prince.org/msg/7/457530

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Reply #9 posted 10/26/19 2:15am

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They’re setting prepared for the release of the first avenue benefit concert!!!
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Reply #10 posted 10/26/19 6:46am

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AaronReturn2005 said:



laytonian said:




rogifan said:


I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?




There was no official video created for the song Purple Rain.
What you do see, is a slice of the film itself.
Of course, they could take that slice and put it online (but Warner Music and Warner Brothers Films are two separate companies now). One of those owns the official rights to all of the movie soundtracks.



But hang on! I think the Codfather's video has the introdocution mentioning that Wendy and Lisa wrote it, while the 7:05 version on the Purple Rain DVD doesn't.


If you look at the link to another thread posted above, it appears there are quite a number of edits for that video. It's a confusing entry in the official canon.
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Reply #11 posted 10/26/19 5:47pm

rogifan

laytonian said:

rogifan said:

I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?


There was no official video created for the song Purple Rain.
What you do see, is a slice of the film itself.
Of course, they could take that slice and put it online (but Warner Music and Warner Brothers Films are two separate companies now). One of those owns the official rights to all of the movie soundtracks.

Didn't know that. Thanks.

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Reply #12 posted 10/30/19 9:02am

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rogifan said:


I see it there posted by someone called The Codfather. It has 141M views. Why wouldn't it be on the official Prince YouTube channel/page?




There was no official video created for the song Purple Rain.
What you do see, is a slice of the film itself.
Of course, they could take that slice and put it online (but Warner Music and Warner Brothers Films are two separate companies now). One of those owns the official rights to all of the movie soundtracks.



Of course there's an official video for PR that was sent to TVs.
It s even on the 2004 dvd release of the movie, etc.
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Reply #13 posted 10/30/19 12:06pm

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Did i just dream all those 'Purple Rain' videos up in '84?

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Reply #14 posted 10/30/19 12:17pm

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nayroo2002 said:

Did i just dream all those 'Purple Rain' videos up in '84?

lol

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Reply #15 posted 10/30/19 11:52pm

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When 2021 comes and the rights of the WB albums are now under Sony, we can upload missing stuff like the Peach video freely.

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Reply #16 posted 11/02/19 8:39am

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So casual fans can buy the movie for that performance, instead of watching that single performance for free lol
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