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New York (AFP) - A silk shirt with a ruffled collar that helped define late music legend Prince's distinctive style has sold for $33,000. It was among a trove of 164 items linked to the mercurial rock sensation, who died aged 57 in 2016, sold at a Boston auction house by a Parisian businessman for a total of $675,000. The "Kid from Minneapolis" wore the white shirt complete with faux French cuffs and imitation pearl buttons during his 98-show Purple Rain Tour of North America in 1984 and 1985. "Curated by a French businessman who cultivated ties with Prince's inner circle two decades ago... T...
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Washington (AFP) - The nine justices of the US Supreme Court took on the role of art critics on Wednesday as they grappled with whether a photographer should be compensated for a picture she took of Prince used in a work by Andy Warhol. In a lighter vein than in most cases before the court, arguments were sprinkled with eclectic pop culture references ranging from hit TV show "Mork & Mindy" to hip hop group 2 Live Crew to Stanley Kubrick's horror film "The Shining." Justice Clarence Thomas volunteered at one point that he was a fan of Prince in the 1980s while Chief Justice John Roberts displa...
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Washington (AFP) - Pop music and art converge on the US Supreme Court on Wednesday as it hears whether a photographer should be compensated for a picture she took of Prince used in a work by Andy Warhol. The case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, could have far-reaching implications for US copyright law and the art world. It stems from a black-and-white picture taken in 1981 by celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith of Prince, a then up-and-coming young musician from Minneapolis. In 1984, as Prince's "Purple Rain" album was taking off, Vanity Fair asked Warhol to provide...
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Dubai (AFP) - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has shaken up his conservative kingdom with head-spinning reforms while quashing any threats to his status as de facto ruler -– a role he assumed five years ago. The hard-charging heir has earned plaudits for allowing women to drive and envisioning an economy less dependent on oil, but he has also drawn widespread revulsion over the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other state abuses. A towering man with a full-face beard, a deep growling voice and seemingly boundless energy, Prince Mohammed is known for his super-sized ambi...
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Washington (AFP) - A CBS affiliate in Minnesota has unearthed video footage of late music legend Prince commenting on a teachers' strike when he was just 11 years old -- a child instantly recognizable to the journalist who found it purely by chance. The television station, WCCO in Minneapolis, was going through old reels and restoring some footage in an effort to provide context about a similar strike last month, and production manager Matt Liddy stumbled on the clip. "Are most of the kids in favor of the picketing?" the reporter asks the child, who is wearing a coat and headband to keep his e...
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New York (AFP) - Prince's estate will soon issue a completed record from the mercurial artist's storied music vault, the first never-before-heard album released since the musician's shock death five years ago. "Welcome 2 America" -- a 12-track album finished in 2010, but shelved for reasons unknown in the famous vault at Prince's Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis -- offers a prophetic window into social struggles at today's forefront, delving into racism, political division, technology and disinformation. Melding urgent lyricism with languorous funk, the pop shapeshifter Prince sings of A...
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Paris (AFP) - Five years after his death, treasures continue to emerge from Prince's legendary vault, with a previously unreleased album "Welcome 2 America" set for release on July 30, label Legacy Recordings said Thursday. The album, which was recorded in 2010, is likely to rank among the artist's most overtly political statements, with a title track that concludes: "Land of the free / home of the slave." That song is immediately available on streaming platforms, with the full 12-track album following this summer. A second disc will feature a live performance from the tour of the same name, ...
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Washington (AFP) - Private security contractor and ally of former US President Trump Erik Prince violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media on Friday. The confidential report to the Security Council, obtained by the New York Times and the Washington Post, said that Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries and weapons to strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has fought to overthrow the UN-backed Libyan government, in 2019. The $80 million operation included plans to form a hit squad to track and kill Libyan commanders opposed to H...
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