1998

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: March 1, 1998
Title: "Publisher Hush On New Prince Book; Plus: More Musings About Our Elusive Rocker In The Works?"
Summary: The New York publisher behind an upcoming book on Prince is behaving as mysteriously as our rock star. Prior to the April publication date, Carol Publishing Group is willing to confirm only two things: The title is "Purple Reign," and the author writes under a name - Liz Jones - not a symbol. Jones, who writes for the London Sunday Times, couldn't explain Carol Pubs' counter-PR strategy.

Publication: USA Today [US]
Date: June 17, 1998
Title: "Artist's Marketing Plan Turns Into Royal Pain"
Summary: Enraged by delays and snafus in shipping his five-CD Crystal Ball album, available initially only via the Internet or phone orders, some fans are vowing to boycott the Artist's upcoming New Power Soul album, set to be released at the end of this month.

Publication: The Denver Rocky Mountain News [US]
Date: June 23, 1998
Title: "Khan, Ex-Prince To Tour Together"
Summary: Chaka Khan and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince plan to hit the States in a big way late in the fall. ''We'll start in Europe and work back this way,'' says the multi-Grammy-winning singer, who heads out on a world tour with the Artist next month. Khan's alliance with the Artist goes far beyond sharing performance dates. She has launched her own label, and his New Power Generation Records is distributing its first product - Khan's CD, Come 2 My House.

Publication: Music Week [US]
Date: July 4, 1998
Title: "BMG Entertainment International Deal With The Artist"
Summary: BMG Entertainment International has signed a manufacturing, distribution and marketing deal with The Artist, which bears fruit today (June 30) with the release of the Minneapolis-based singer's new 11-track album New Power Soul.

Publication: The London Guardian [US]
Date: August 29, 1998
Title: "Stropping And Funking; The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Did His Best To Stop Caroline Sullivan Seeing His Wembley Gig. When She Sneaked Her Way In, This Is What She Saw..."
Summary: 'This isn't an easy call to make,' said Prince's public relations woman, 'but The Artist decided at four this morning that he doesn't want the Guardian to have review tickets for Wembley.' The Artist Formerly Known As Rational evidently found a front-page interview celebrating his 40th birthday 'disrespectful'.

Publication: The Irish Times [Ir]
Date: September 19, 1998
Title: "Calling His Own Tune the Artist Formerly Known As Prince Has Skipped The Reins Of The Record Companies And Is Now King Of His Own Career. He talks To Dan Glaister In Chanhassen, Minnesota"
Summary: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is at a crossroads. He turned 40 this year, and with his new album, Newpower Soul, he professes to have found a way to avoid the machinations of the record industry, perhaps providing a way forward for other artists.

Publication: The Cleveland Plain Dealer [US]
Date: September 29, 1998
Title: "The Artist Is Currently Known As A Label Head"
Summary: To paraphrase the old axiom about the weather, lots of people in the music industry talk about the unfair nature of contracts, but nobody does anything about them - until the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, that is.

Publication: PETA Animal Times [Internet]
Date: Winter 1998
Title: "Party Like It’s 1999!"
Summary: As the new millennium approaches, the whole world is preparing to "Party Like It’s 1999." Did you know that the singer behind this song is a "prince" of a guy to animals? The Artist and his wife, Mayte, "don’t eat anything with parents." Why?

Publication: London Daily Telegraph [UK]
Date: October 13, 1998
Title: "Peterborough: Prince Finds Hot Love"
Summary: As the biting winds of autumn sweep across the land, Mayte Garcia - the wife of the Artist, formerly known as Squiggle and Prince - is on hand to provide us all with a delicious, warming recipe for those long dark evenings. It is for a dish called "Love Soup".

Publication: The Cleveland Plain Dealer [US]
Date: October 24, 1998
Title: "Some Questions For The Artist"
Summary: Word is starting to get out that The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is soon to become The Artist Formerly Based in Minneapolis.

Publication: Interview Magazine [US]
Date: November 1998
Title: "Shake 'Em Up Chaka"
Summary: She might prefer being called a primal wailer but the truth, as her obsessed fans well know, is that Chaka Khan is divalicious P>Publication: Billboard [US]
Date: November 22, 1997
Title: ?
Summary: SUDAN/EGYPT: Now a resident of Cairo, Egypt, where she is a tattoo artist known as the Queen Of Henna, the singer Setona comes from the most eastern part of Sudan.

Publication: London Daily Telegraph [UK]
Date: December 19, 1998
Title: "Change Again From The Artist Formerly Known As Married"
Summary: YOU CAN always count on the Artist formerly known as Prince to keep up the weekly weirdness quota. After changing his name from plain old Prince Rogers Nelson to Prince, then TAFKAP, followed by an unpronounceable symbol that everyone decided to pronounce as Squiggle, before finally resting on the Artist, it would be fair to say he isn't fond of the constraints of everyday life.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: December 22, 1998
Title: "Soured Deal With Prince Has Guitar Man Fretting; Minneapolis Instrument Maker Is Worried That His Reputation May Be In Jeopardy"
Summary: Oh, the riffs that Chicago's Ferdinand Pickett could swap with Minneapolis guitar mechanic Mitchell Rath about their guitar forays with Prince. Barring a settlement, a trial early next year will decide Pickett's lawsuit against Prince for allegedly performing with a glyph-design guitar that sure looked like the one Pickett made for him, without payment or credit.

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times [US]
Date: December 29, 1998
Title: "'1999' Redux; Prince's '82 Smash Ushering In a New Era"
Summary: As it threatens to become an omnipresent anthem for the coming millennium, the hit "1999," an apocalyptic jam by Prince, is showing that it's still got legs.

Publication: The San Francisco Chronicle [US]
Date: December 29, 1998
Title: "Prince, Warner Bros. Competing Over 1999': Artist Releasing New Versions, But Label Owns Master"
Summary: Just in time for the new year, the Artist Formerly Known as the Unpronounceable Glyph Formerly Known as Prince plans to release seven new mixes of his landmark 1982 single "1999" on his NPG label.

Publication: The London Times [UK]
Date: December 29, 1998
Title: "Prince In No Mood To Party Over The Re-Release Of 1999"
Summary: THE pop star Prince has embarked on a new dispute with his former record label over the rights to his song 1999, which is widely tipped to be the biggest hit of next year.

Publication: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution [US]
Date: December 30, 1998
Title: "Ready To Party Like It's 1999? Prince's Resurrected Song To Get A Lot Of Air Time"
Summary: More than 16 years after a relatively unknown musician named Prince released the ultimate party song about closing down the 1900s, the apocalyptic disco dance tune "1999" is experiencing a comeback this week. Warner Bros. Records, which holds the rights to the song, has reissued two versions of "1999" --- the original six-minute album version and a 3:35 edited version --- to radio stations across the country

Publication: The Washington Post [US]
Date: December 31, 1998
Title: "Singing In the New Year; The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Has Some Big Plans for '1999'"
Summary: Prince predicted as much back in 1982 when he released "1999," a driving, dizzyingly funky anthem that will undoubtedly be all over the radio tonight, particularly as we approach midnight.