Three unreleased songs by Prince are being auctioned off, as well as other prized possessions related to the musician, courtesy of his first wife Mayte Garcia, former manager Owen Husney and collaborator/guitarist Dez Dickinson.
The catalog includes a cassette tape recorded in the 1970s, which contains three unreleased songs and earlier versions of “So Blue,” “Gotta Broken Heart Again” and “Sometimes It Snows in April.” The minimum bid for the tape is $20,000.
“Prince originally gave me the cassette in late 1978 because he wanted me to listen to a record he had recorded on side A (a female-fronted funk band whose name I don’t remember now),” Dickerson explains in the item description. “Sometime during the next year or so, I used the A side to record some scratch bass and guitar parts for songs I was going to be recording for a rock/power pop demo I was doing, recording over the original content. On side B, Prince had his work versions of 6 songs, which I left intact for, at that time, unknown reasons (obviously, we now know it preserved a piece of musical history).”
Other items in the auction include outfits worn by the musician, his engagement ring, which has a minimum bid of $100,000, a five-piece set of wedding china with his famous “Love” symbol design starts at $5,000, and the 1959 Gibson L-Series used to compose early demo tracks is priced at $60,000.
