As President of Prince's Paisley Park Records / PRN Productions, Alan Leeds was trying to bridge a relationship between the mercurial artist, and a major record company and corporation.

In the final part of the interview he discusses the many challenges he faced, but also his favourite tour, and 2-3 special memories of the iconic artists he worked with, including James Brown, Prince and D'Angelo.

Here's a quote from the final episode.

"I remember a conversation I had with Prince...somebody had taken some Jimi Hendrix tracks that were unfinished and had brought in some good, credible musicians into the studio, to add tracks to finish these songs, and they put an album out.

And you knew that the original Hendrix tracks were from back in the day, and the drum / keyboard / rhythm guitar / bass parts were all added on years later by people who never knew Hendrix. We were agreeing that this was a pretty sh*tty thing to do, the producer ought to be shot! And Prince was like 'that'll never happen to my catalogue!'

And I was like, 'Do you have a Will?' And to be fair part of his management - incluing me - had talked to him begging him to get his Will in order, when I was still there. He had a superstition about it, as if somehow working out a Will would hasten your demise."

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https://how-can-u-just-leave-me-standing.simplecast.com/episodes/alan-leeds-interview-with-sam-bleazard-part-3

What I am always disappointed by is when the interviewer does not ask people like Alan what they think of the vault releases thus far. I mean, the PR Deluxe, SOTT SDE and 1999 SDE are all during his time. Was he blown away, or what?