Speaking to the Guardian, Brent Fisher, who worked on Prince’s orchestral pieces, said the legend told him most projects would never be released. They were in there for his own pleasure, and if he wanted to tinker with them or set fire to it all, he could. Most of the time, Prince had no intention of taking things out of the vault to release them. Prince said most of the vault wouldn’t be released We need to protect these things,” she said. Susan Rodgers, Prince’s producer from 1983 to 1987, told the Guardian that she helped start the vault before Purple Rain. When Prince wanted to save whatever he was working on, whether that was a full album, a music video, or live concert, for later, he’d store it in the enormous bank vault he had installed in the basement of Paisley Park.Īccording to Consequence of Sound, the Carver County Sheriff’s office took photos of the vault during their investigation of Paisley Park following Prince’s death. Most of Purple Rain was recorded from a live concert. He recorded virtually everything he did, even if it was just a melody or a piece of lyric, and not just what he did in the studio. There’s a rumor that he recorded at least one song every day of his life, starting at the beginning of his career in the 1970s, which, if you think about it, means he’s recorded thousands of songs. Now, posthumously, that number is about to rise. In his lifetime alone, he released 39 studio albums. When Prince died, he already had an extensive catalog of music. So are his posthumous albums a betrayal? Prince | Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Prince had a vault of millions of songs Maybe he didn’t want anything to come out of the vault. However, many loyal Prince fans would say that this is going against the legend’s wishes. They have to pay the bills somehow, so they’ve begun to release some of what’s down there. When he died in 2016, he left all that music behind, leaving it up to the executors of his estate to deal with it. For instance, Prince kept a vault of unreleased music in the basement of his home and recording complex Paisley Park. But he led a controversial life, making decisions no other artist would dare to.
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