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Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Kylie Minogue and Prince’s lost song ‘Baby Doll’ leaks online 32 years after it was created

Minogue has spoken about the song in interviews for years and it has lyrics she confirmed were in the song in 2018

By Emma Wilkes
15th December 2024

Kylie Minogue and Prince‘s lost collaboration ‘Baby Doll’ has surfaced online 32 years after it was created. kyliePrince

The funk-laden version that has landed online features lyrics that Minogue confirmed were in the song in 2018: “Let me be your baby doll, sugar and spice and all things nice/ Let me be your paradise.”

… Minogue has spoken about the track’s existence in interviews for years and has mentioned that her record label wasn’t interested in the idea of him producing it all himself, so she never got to record it. She has also mentioned that the Prince Estate might also have a copy.

Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Originally recorded during Prince’s ‘Diamonds and Pearls’ tour, Minogue’s label reportedly prevented her from recording her own additions to the track.

By Tyler Jenke
12/15/2024

Thirty-two years after virtuosic rocker Prince and Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue teamed up for a collaboration, their-previously unheard efforts have now reportedly been leaked online.

The track, titled “Baby Doll”, has been discussed at length by fans of the Purple One, with its origins tracing back to the Australian leg of Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls tour in April and May of 1992. Recorded at Sydney’s Studios 301 during his visit to the country, Prince and Minogue reportedly connected during the former’s performance at London’s Earl’s Court in June of the same year.

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New Posthumous Prince Song ‘Cosmic Day’ (2020)

New Posthumous Prince Song ‘Cosmic Day’ (2020)

New Posthumous Prince Song ‘Cosmic Day’

Hear Prince’s Previously Unreleased Gem ‘Cosmic Day’

by Jon Blistein

Track will appear on upcoming Sign O’ the Times reissue

The Prince estate has released the full version of a long-treasured rarity, “Cosmic Day,” which will appear on the upcoming reissue of Sign O’ the Times, out September 25th. Prince

The track was recorded at Sunset Sound, Studio 3 on November 15th, 1986, and although a snippet of the recording has been passed among collectors for years, the whole song had yet to surface until now.

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How Prince Worked His Magic On The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’

How Prince Worked His Magic On The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’

June 21, 2019
by SAMANTHA BALABAN

Originals, the latest posthumous release from The Prince Estate, compiles 15 previously unheard songs Prince wrote and demoed for other artists. Among the familiar titles penned by Prince are Sheila E.’s “The Glamorous Life,” Kenny Rogers’ “You’re My Love,” and the Bangles “Manic Monday.”

For the Bangles, “Manic Monday” was a career breakthrough and, according to Bangle Susanna Hoffs, the culmination of a magical series of events.

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Prince Estate to Release ‘Originals’ Album: His Versions of Songs He Gave to Other Artists – 2019

Prince Estate to Release ‘Originals’ Album: His Versions of Songs He Gave to Other Artists

This post has been updated July 2019, below

An Album From Prince’s Vault, And His Memoir, Are Coming

New Prince Album of Unreleased Demos Announced

New Prince album ‘Originals’ being released in honor of his birthday

Prince would have turned 61 on June 7 and in honor of that day his estate is releasing a new album.

“Originals” will feature Prince’s versions of tunes the legendary artist wrote and gave to others to turn into hits.

The singer died of an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl in April 2016.
Out of the 15 tracks on the new album, 14 are previously unreleased, his estate announced Thursday.

The music includes “The Glamorous Life” which was a hit for his former love, Sheila E., “Sex Shooter” which was performed by the girl group he formed, Apollonia 6, and “Nothing Compares 2 U” which was a single put out in 1985 by another Prince group, The Family, and later by Sinead O’Connor.

…It comes on the heels of the announcement that the singer’s memoir will be released on October 29.

According to the book’s description, “‘The Beautiful Ones’ is the story of how Prince became Prince — a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him.”

Prince Estate to Release ‘Originals’ Album: His Versions of Songs He Gave to Other Artists (EXCLUSIVE)

April 24, 2019

It’s a rare singer-songwriter who can just give away undeniable hits like “Nothing Compares 2 U,” “Manic Monday” and “The Glamorous Life” to other artists, but that’s exactly what Prince did throughout his 40-year career.

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Three Prince Albums Released On Vinyl For The First Time (2019)

Three Prince Albums Released On Vinyl For The First Time (2019)

The LPs, all released in the mid-2000s, will come out on Sony’s Legacy Recordings in February.

Three Prince albums—Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth—are being released on vinyl for the first time.

Earlier this summer, the late icon’s estate struck a deal with Sony Music to reissue 35 albums recorded between 1978 and 2015.

The latest batch features three LPs originally released in the mid-2000s. They’ll hit the shelves on February 8th, 2019, through Sony’s Legacy Recordings.

3121, the first Prince album to hit the Billboard No.1 since 1989, came out in 2004, while Musicology, which includes the two Grammy Award-winning tracks “Musicology” and “Call My Name,” landed in 2006.

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