Awww, Londell has gone quiet because he couldn’t handle the criticism on his post. He’s embarrassing himself as always.
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MIRvmn1 said:

Awww, Londell has gone quiet because he couldn’t handle the criticism on his post. He’s embarrassing himself as always. [Edited 1/21/26 23:28pm]

Don't worry, he'll pop back up in a few months when it's time to start shilling for Celebration '26

happyshopper said:

Fingers crossed they actually have a plan (and then follow through with it) for 2026!

Although the rumours and impression you get from Londell's tweets don't bode well. He's clearly focusing on later material, not the Warner days.

They do not have a plan, they've not had 1 in 10 years and they aren't going to start it now

The Estate is a mess and always has been

Londell and Charlie are terrible at managing the Estate

PennyPurple said:

happyshopper said:

Fingers crossed they actually have a plan (and then follow through with it) for 2026!

Although the rumours and impression you get from Londell's tweets don't bode well. He's clearly focusing on later material, not the Warner days.

They do not have a plan, they've not had 1 in 10 years and they aren't going to start it now

The Estate is a mess and always has been

Londell and Charlie are terrible at managing the Estate

At least the previous team had some semblance of a plan and compiled three good-to-great SDEs before they were given the boot.

bozojones said:

With all the stuff that's going on in Minnesota, are they even going to have a Celebration this year? With the Gestapo running wild, it doesn't really feel like a popular tourist destination.

Leaving the political discussion aside and considering it from a purely Prince-related point of view, I don't see ticket sales going too well for them this year. So if it does end up having to be cancelled, I wonder what the plan will be then? Do they even have a backup plan for it? Something like a virtual Celebration that those of us who don't want to travel to America can attend?

BonnieC said:

Equally pathetic is the repost:

I genuinely think we older fans ...who lived the dream in real time need to sit this one out...& let the estate open up Prince to a much younger audience. Its a job truly well done. So props to @LondellMcMillan & co.

By the way, bozo, "living the dream in real time" meant spending a kid's allowance, in other words a fortune, in "back-from-the-toilet-hole" sounding cassettes, after digging and scrapping for months, investigating like crazy, at a time when there was no internet at all.

We're kind of romanticizing those times a bit, aren't we? Going to those Prince concerts was fun and at the same time quite stressful.

olb99 said:

BonnieC said:

Equally pathetic is the repost:

By the way, bozo, "living the dream in real time" meant spending a kid's allowance, in other words a fortune, in "back-from-the-toilet-hole" sounding cassettes, after digging and scrapping for months, investigating like crazy, at a time when there was no internet at all.

We're kind of romanticizing those times a bit, aren't we? Going to those Prince concerts was fun and at the same time quite stressful.

Not really I think.
In those days I went daily to various recordstores that carried boots and had people working there or customers who were tape traders, and amazing time that was killed during the 90s bootleg boom and the internet. Even tho it was really stressful after a show with everybody pumped up from the adrenaline to figure out ASAP where he would party or play next, but honestly that was awesome.

bozojones said:

PennyPurple said:

They do not have a plan, they've not had 1 in 10 years and they aren't going to start it now

The Estate is a mess and always has been

Londell and Charlie are terrible at managing the Estate

At least the previous team had some semblance of a plan and compiled three good-to-great SDEs before they were given the boot.

Yep. If the old Estate management were still in charge I'm pretty sure we'd have had "Diamonds and Love" already. PR 40 SDE. Parade SDE this year. And who knows what else. Maybe a Lovesexy SDE ready for release, Originals 2, Live albums, etc.

They were huge fans, and worked to make things happen.

The new Estate doesn't even have an Archivist anymore to pull and organise the material.

JorisE73 said:

olb99 said:

We're kind of romanticizing those times a bit, aren't we? Going to those Prince concerts was fun and at the same time quite stressful.

Not really I think.
In those days I went daily to various recordstores that carried boots and had people working there or customers who were tape traders, and amazing time that was killed during the 90s bootleg boom and the internet. Even tho it was really stressful after a show with everybody pumped up from the adrenaline to figure out ASAP where he would party or play next, but honestly that was awesome.

Exactly what I wanted to convey: it was both awesome and stressful.