A few weeks ago a Prince tribute album called Shockadelica - 50th Anniversary Tribute To The Artist Known As Prince was released, with a tracklist so long that it seems every one of Norway’s 4.7 million citizens has thrown their name into the mix. Well, there are 80 songs on an epic 5 discs anyway, and as the compilers state they have ‘gathered Norway’s finest jazz musicians, heavy metalists, pop, electro, rock, country, blues, gospel choirs, Norway’s most famous boy choir, avantgarde, soul, funk, jazz-rock, noise, humourists, singer/songwriters, hiphop-producers, Prince-coverbands and danceartists. Even the national symphony orchestra KORK is represented.’ It really does read like a who’s who of the main players in every worthwhile genre in modern Norwegian music: Minor Majority, Frost, The Loch Ness Mouse, Thom Hell, Bare Egil Band, Morten Abel, Ephemera, King Midas and Egil Olsen (but not the football manager one), to name but a few of the fresh-faced troubadours who have lent their considerable talents to the record. So far, so mouthwatering. Apparently Prince is none too pleased however. Not content with suing his own fansites and ordering the removal of his videos from youtube The Daily Swarm reports that the Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince But Now Just Known As Prince Again is suing the album’s producers C+C Records after Christer Falck, that label’s head, sent the Purple One the record as a present. Prince, in a grossly overprotective fit of prima donna rage, wants all copies of Shockadelica destroyed; lets just hope they avoid that fate. Talk about not being able to take a compliment!
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