BOSTON — Music legend Prince has been dead for more than six years, but a battle continues to rage over an EP of five gospel-inflected blues tracks that his estate says were wrongfully released a year after his death.
In an 18-page decision, the Massachusetts Appeals Court on Tuesday overturned a Superior Court dismissal of a lawsuit filed against Boston-based entertainment lawyer Christopher L. Brown, who advised his clients to release the Deliverance Recordings EP.
The “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry” writer and performer, born as Prince Rogers Nelson, died at 57 years old in his home state of Minnesota in 2016. In the 1990s he legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol — he called it “The Love Symbol,” a stylistic fusion of the traditional male and female symbols — allegedly in a feud with his record label at the time, Warner Bros., according to a 2005 Harvard Business Review study.
