Be careful if Prince bestowed a stage name on you because his estate might claim that it own the rights — even some 40 years later. That is the crux of a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Patty A. Kotero, ...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember Purple Rain, one of the hottest movies to come out in 1984. The movie Purple Rain is a semi-autobiographical musical drama film, starring the ...

More than 2,000 Prince fans, followers and theatergoers waited in lines that stretched around the block Thursday night to ...

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Prince on the custom motorcycle featured in Purple Rain. Wendy Melvoin, guitarist for Prince's genre-bending band The Revolution, remembers one of their most iconic songs started with an idea — and a ...

A frenzied performance of “Let’s Go Crazy”? Check. A set that resembles the Minneapolis club First Avenue? Check. But a scene in which a woman is tossed into a trash bin against her will? Or saucy ...