Prince Suing Label Over Tribute Album

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Jun 26, 2008

If there is one thing Prince loves more than the colour purple, it’s lawsuits. Following recent scuffles with music pirates, YouTube posters and other internet baddies, the Purple One is now suing Norwegian label C+C Records for making a tribute album in his honour.

Christer Falck, the owner of C+C Records, recently asked some 50 Norwegian artists to each pick a song from Prince’s massive back catalog and cover it in celebration of the artist’s 50th birthday. Falck then assembled the tracks as a five-disc, 81-track box set titled Shockadelica — 50th Anniversary Tribute to the Artist Known as Prince, which was released earlier this month to rave reviews in Norway and entered the country’s album charts at No. 8.

Well, apparently Falck decided he should pass one of the 5,000 limited-edition copies to Prince. Big mistake. Prince’s management has now in turn responded with a lawsuit and Norway’s Dagbladet newspaper reports Prince’s lawyers are suing C+C Records and asking for all copies of the tribute to be destroyed.

As of yet, C+C Records has not pulled the record and it’s still available to order via the label’s website. But who knows how much longer it will remain out of the reach from the long arm of Prince.

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