U.S. judge has blocked a planned release of new Prince music on the first anniversary of his death.
The Minnesota district court issued a temporary injunction barring the release of the six-song EP “Deliverance” after Prince’s estate argued that the recordings breached a confidentiality agreement between Prince and his former sound engineer.
“Deliverance” would have marked the first in a series of planned posthumous releases of material by Prince from the huge vault of discarded or unfinished material he reportedly left behind after his death of an accidental drug overdose on April 21, 2016.
Prince died at age 57 and fans are expected to gather at his Paisley Park complex to mark the anniversary of his death, with a weekend-long event called “Celebration 2017.”
