New Prince doc featuring Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz coming in 2017 November 30, 2016 - 13:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A Prince documentary charting the musician’s early years and rise to super-stardom is coming out next year, NME said. Prince: R U Listening? will feature interviews from friends, family and collaborators like Shelia E as well as reflections from Mick Jagger, Billy Idol, Bono, Lenny Kravitz, according to Screen Daily. Former bandmates including Dez Dickerson, who toured with Prince during the 80s, and André Cymone, who played bass in Prince’s teenage band Grand Central, also offer their personal recollections of working with the star in the doc. Producer Michael Kirk, best known for writing, producing and directing the US docuseries Frontline, will direct Prince: R U Listening?. The documentary’s existence came to light after a German distributer announced that it has secured the rights to the film for German-speaking countries. Details of a UK and US release are yet to be confirmed. In other news, Prince‘s Paisley Park estate is set to host a celebration of the late artist’s life during a three-day event next year. The festival will be held from April 20-23, with the bands already booked to perform including The Revolution, Morris Day and The Time, and members of the New Power Generation and 3RDEYEGIRL. Last week, a previously unheard Prince song, ‘Moonbeam Levels’, was released as part of a new compilation album ‘Prince 4ever’.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
