Overview - Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business

Date of release

Genres

  • Music
  • Documentary

Runtime: 135 minutes

Homepage: Slave Trade: How Prince Remade the Music Business

Budget

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Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Prism Films

    Production country

Overview

In the mid-1990s reports emerged that Prince had fallen into dispute with his record company. Having signed what was ostensibly a new, 100 million dollar contract just a couple of years before, Prince was now demanding - not unreasonably to most commentators - control of his masters and the freedom to release what he wanted when he wanted. After a bitter war of words, during which the star scrawled Slave across his cheek whenever he appeared in public and routinely dissed his label, the parties finally settled and Prince henceforth was free to take full control of his music and the way it was sold to consumers. Prince approached this task with devastating foresight as he routinely created new marketing concepts which, with time, became the norm across the music world.

Cast

  • Name: Prince

    Character: Self (archive footage)

    Popularity: 0.4197

    the profile picture of Prince
  • Name: Michael Bland

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.1142

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  • Name: Alan Leeds

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.0724

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  • Name: Marva King

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.1045

  • Name: Joe Levy

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.052

  • Name: Sonny Thompson

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.1384

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