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Prince’s Sign O’ the Times to Be Reissued With 63 Unreleased Tracks

The 8-CD, 13-LP set also includes Prince's 1987 New Year's Eve concert with Miles Davis

Prince’s Sign O’ the Times will receive an expanded reissue, complete with 63 unreleased tracks and a previously unseen concert film.

In all, the Super Deluxe Edition of Sign O’ the Times comprises 92 audio tracks spread out across eight CDs and 13 180gram vinyl LPs. Along with a fresh remaster of Prince’s 1987 double album, the expanded set collects 45 previously unissued studio songs recorded between May 1979 and July 1987, and a complete live audio performance from the June 20th, 1987 concert on the “Sign O’ The Times Tour” at Stadium Galgenwaard in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Both the CD and vinyl sets also include a DVD containing Prince’s complete, previously unreleased New Year’s Eve benefit concert at Paisley Park on December 31st, 1987, which marked the final performance on the “Sign O’ The Times Tour” and featured Prince’s only on-stage collaboration with Miles Davis.

The Super Deluxe Edition also contains a 120-page hardcover book with previously unseen handwritten lyric, photographs, studio material, and other rarities from the era, plus new liner notes by Dave Chappelle, Lenny Kravitz, and longtime engineer Susan Rogers, among others.

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As a companion collector’s piece, a limited 7-inch singles box set will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records, containing remastered audio for all four 7-inch singles released in 1987, the two Warner Records promo singles, and two versions of the previously unreleased track “Witness 4 The Prosecution”. Appropriately, the box set will be limited to 1,987 units.

The Super Deluxe Edition of Sign O’ the Times is officially due out on September 25th through Warner Records in partnership with The Prince Estate. A Deluxe Edition and a double-disc version of the remastered album will also be available. Pre-orders are now ongoing through Prince’s website. Meanwhile, the 7-inch box set is available to order now and will begin shipping on August 14th.

Below, stream “Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)” and take a look at the full tracklist.

Sign O’ the Times Super Deluxe Edition Tracklist:

CD1 / LP1: Remastered Album (Disc 1)

01. Sign O’ The Times
02. Play In The Sunshine
03. Housequake
04. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
05. It
06. Starfish And Coffee
07. Slow Love
08. Hot Thing
09. Forever In My Life

CD2 / LP2: Remastered Album (Disc 2)

01. U Got The Look
02. If I Was Your Girlfriend
03. Strange Relationship
04. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
05. The Cross
06. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
07. Adore

CD3 / LP3&4: Single Mixes & Edits

01. Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit)
02. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit)
03. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit)
04. If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit)
05. Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side)
06. Shockadelica (12” long version)
07. U Got The Look (Long Look) (12” edit)
08. Housequake (7” edit)
09. Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) (12” edit)
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit)
11. Hot Thing (7” single edit)
12. Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
13. Hot Thing (Dub Version)

CD4 / LP5&6: Vault, Part 1

01. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version)
02. Teacher, Teacher (1985 version)
03. All My Dreams
04. Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis)
05. Wonderful Day (original version)
06. Strange Relationship (original version)
07. Visions
08. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns)
09. Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1)
10. Power Fantastic (live in studio)
11. And That Says What?
12. Love And Sex
13. A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal)
14. Colors
15. Crystal Ball (7” mix)
16. Big Tall Wall (version 1)
17. Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
18. In A Large Room With No Light