10 Legendary Artists That Never Saw Their Last Music Record Come Out

When you're an artist as prolific as Prince, you tend to stockpile some of your greatest music a little too much. Between great albums like Sign o the Times, the Purple One even got into disagreements with his record label about not being able to put out some of his material when he wanted to, with the suits wanting him to space them out for future projects. Prince was always generous with his hits though, and every single song he gave to his friends came back home on the Originals.

While this serves more as a compilation than anything else, what you get here are the demos of songs that Prince had thought of sending to some of his proteges to sing, like the original version of the Glamourous Life, which was originally sung by Sheila E. Even with his back catalog, this is practically every genre that Prince was good at under one roof, one minute going into funky grooves that he was reserving for Morris Day and the Time to turning in perfect power pop on a song like Manic Monday, which would end up being the breakout single for the Bangles.

For all of the great single power behind these songs, the real heavy material comes with the ballads, as the Purple One wears his heart on his sleeve for his takes on Nothing Compares 2 U, which might even eclipse the iconic version done by Sinead O Connor. Considering most of these songs consist of the demos that were going to be replaced after the fact, Prince was one of the few musicians who never was able to half ass anything in his career.