Paisley Park Records was an American record label founded by musician Prince in 1985, which was distributed by and funded in part by Warner Bros. Records. It was started in 1985, following the success of the film and album Purple Rain. The label shares its name with Prince's recording complex Paisley Park Studios and the song "Paisley Park" on his 1985 Around the World in a Day album. Paisley Park was opened to the public as a museum and memorial to Prince following his death. October 28, 2016 is officially known as "Paisley Park Day" in the city of Chanhassen to recognize the opening of the museum.
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History
While Prince had great chart success in the 1980s, the success generally did not transfer to other acts. With the exception of Sheila E.'s 1985 album Romance 1600 (the label's debut non-Prince release), Tevin Campbell's single "Round and Round" and the Time's 1990 release, "Pandemonium" the label had very little commercial successes by artists other than Prince.
In 1994, amid Prince's feud with Warner Bros., Warner ended its distribution deal with Paisley Park, effectively closing the label. Prince fought for the rights to the master recordings of all artists recorded there. Prince later started NPG Records, run by Trevor Guy. The vice-president of Operations for the label until 1991 was Alan Leeds. (Alan won a Grammy for writing the liner notes for a James Brown album, and at one point served as Prince's tour manager on several tours.) Following Alan's departure, radio promotion executive Graham Armstrong took over the role until 1991, when Gilbert Davison and Jill Willis, co-managers of Prince and president and executive vice-president of Paisley Park Enterprises, negotiated a joint venture between PPE and Warner Bros. (with the help of Prince attorney Gary Stiffelman). With the joint venture came funding for additional staff to run the label and oversee its artists - including Mavis Staples, George Clinton, Ingrid Chavez and Carmen Electra. Staffers included John Dukakis and Kerry Gordy as co-presidents of the label.
The label's office were in a building with the address 1999 Avenue of the Stars.
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Paisley Park Studios
The studio was designed by architecture firm BOTO Design Inc, of Santa Monica, California, and was completed in 1988. It contains two live music venues used as rehearsal spaces. After the label folded in 1994, Prince continued to live and record at Paisley Park Studios. Prince's intention before his death was to establish Paisley Park as a public venue like Graceland. He was found dead in his estate's elevator on April 21, 2016.
Touring Paisley Park
On August 24, 2016, the media announced that Paisley Park, a 65,000-square-foot complex, would be turned into a museum open to the public. Tours of the Paisley Park Museum started October 2016. Graceland Holdings, the company that has managed Elvis Presley's Graceland since 1982, announced it would organize the tours. The plan stated that the tours would include the studios where Prince recorded, produced and mixed most of his biggest hits, and the soundstage where he rehearsed for tours and hosted exclusive private concerts. Also featured would be thousands of artifacts from his personal archives, including iconic concert wardrobe, awards, musical instruments, artwork, rare music and video recordings, concert memorabilia, automobiles and motorcycles. In 2017, regular tours and punctual shows are organized in Paisley Park.
Carver County officials confirmed a story that Prince's ashes are now 'on show' in the main entrance to Paisley Park in an urn in the shape of Paisley Park. In the basement of Paisley Park there is a vault of unreleased material, hundreds of hours of live recordings, experiments and top-secret songs.
Apart from the studio residence, an article by The Guardian mentioned other frequent places visited by Prince fans around Minneapolis, including the Electric Fetus, Prince's local record store, which would get many of his releases weeks before the major chains as he liked shopping there; the Capri Theatre, where he played his first gig in 1979; and First Avenue, the venue where Purple Rain was filmed.
Discography
Prince albums
- 1985: Prince and The Revolution: Around the World in a Day
- 1986: Prince and The Revolution: Parade
- 1987: Prince: Sign "?" the Times
- 1988: Prince: Lovesexy
- 1990: Prince: Graffiti Bridge
- 1991: Prince and the New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls
- 1992: Prince and the New Power Generation: Love Symbol Album
Paisley Park albums
- 1985: The Family: The Family
- 1985: Sheila E.: Romance 1600
- 1986: Mazarati: Mazarati
- 1987: Madhouse: 8
- 1987: Sheila E.: Sheila E.
- 1987: Jill Jones: Jill Jones
- 1987: Taja Sevelle: Taja Sevelle §
- 1987: Madhouse: 16
- 1988: Dale Bozzio: Riot in English
- 1988: The Three O'Clock: Vermillion
- 1988: Good Question: Good Question
- 1989: Tony LeMans: Tony LeMans §
- 1989: George Clinton: The Cinderella Theory
- 1989: Kahoru Kohiruimaki: Time the Motion (Japanese release only)
- 1989: Mavis Staples: Time Waits for No One
- 1990: Kahoru Kohiruimaki: Time the Motion Live (Japanese release only)
- 1990: The Time: Pandemonium §
- 1991: Eric Leeds: Times Squared
- 1991: T.C. Ellis: True Confessions
- 1991: Ingrid Chavez: May 19, 1992
- 1993: Carmen Electra: Carmen Electra
- 1993: Mavis Staples: The Voice
- 1993: George Clinton: Hey, Man, Smell My Finger
- 1993: Eric Leeds: Things Left Unsaid
Note: All titles were distributed by Warner Bros. Records, except for those denoted with §, which were distributed by sister label Reprise Records; Universal Records, now part of Universal Music Group and http://www.columbiarecords.com Columbia Records.
See also
- List of record labels
References
External links
- The Inside Story on Designing Prince's Paisley Park: Exclusive
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