Footage of Prince at age 11 was recently discovered in the news archives of Minneapolis TV station WCCO. There's almost no footage or photos of Prince from that age that has been seen by the public.
A producer had pulled a news report of a 1970 teachers strike to give context to a current teachers strike. It was on film, and the producer spotted a boy that he immediately thought was Prince. They had to get a specialist to extract the audio, and while they felt sure it was him, he never said "My name is Prince" (or that he was funky), so they investigated via other kids that were interviewed, and then they got childhood friend and former bandmate Terrence Jackson to confirm. "That's Prince," Jackson told WCCO, "aka 'Skipper' to the North Side."
Watch the news story with the footage below.
In other news, there's a new edition of the Prince & The Revolution: Live album/film that will be out June 3. It was filmed and recorded on March 30, 1985 at Syracuse, New York's Carrier Dome on the Purple Rain tour. It's available in a variety of formats, including a 3-LP / 2-CD / Blu-ray Collectors Edition. You can watch video of "Let's Go Crazy" and check out the tracklist below.
You can pick up classic Prince albums on vinyl in the BV shop.
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PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: LIVE -COLLECTOR’S EDITION BOX SET
LP 1 Side A Let's Go Crazy Delirious 1999 Little Red Corvette Take Me With U
LP 1 Side B Yankee Doodle Do Me, Baby Irresistible Bitch Possessed How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
LP 2 Side C Let's Pretend We're Married International Lover God Computer Blue
LP 2 Side D Darling Nikki The Beautiful Ones When Doves Cry
LP 3 Side E I Would Die 4 U Baby, I'm a Star
LP 3 Side F Purple Rain
CD 1 Let's Go Crazy Delirious 1999 Little Red Corvette Take Me With U Yankee Doodle Do Me, Baby Irresistible Bitch Possessed How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore Let's Pretend We're Married International Lover God Computer Blue
CD 2 Darling Nikki The Beautiful Ones When Doves Cry I Would Die 4 U Baby, I'm a Star Purple Rain
Blu-Ray (region free) Let’s Go Crazy Delirious 1999 Little Red Corvette Take Me With U Yankee Doodle Dandy Do Me, Baby Irresistible Bitch Possessed How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore Let’s Pretend We’re Married International Lover God Computer Blue Darling Nikki The Beautiful Ones When Doves Cry I Would Die 4 U Baby I’m A Star Purple Rain
