Dieser englischsprachige Film erforscht und dokumentiert die Karriere von Prince. 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 & 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 & routinely dissed his label, the parties finally settled & Prince henceforth was free to take füll control of his music & 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. Recognising the future power of the world-wide-web as an essential distribution tool for recorded work long before the majors realised.. .