{"id":488412,"date":"2019-07-25T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=863660"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:22:15","slug":"prince-estate-unveils-holly-rock-animated-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/prince-estate-unveils-holly-rock-animated-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Estate Unveils \u2018Holly Rock\u2019 Animated Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PRINCE.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prince\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince\" data-tag=\"prince\">Prince<\/a> estate has unveiled the colorful animated video for \u201cHolly Rock,\u201d one of the tracks featured on the recent posthumous collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-originals-gathers-blueprints-of-princes-handed-off-hits-844393\/\"><em>Originals<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Prince\u2019s YouTube account notes, \u201cHolly Rock\u201d was tracked at Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Sound studios in April 1985, the same week that Prince recorded his hit single \u201cKiss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Holly Rock\u2019 was recorded for inclusion on the original soundtrack for the 1985 movie <em>Krush Groove<\/em>,\u201d the Prince estate states. \u201cWhile Prince gave Sheila E. sole writing and producer credit, he actually produced the track himself and co-wrote it with Sheila. Though not a hit at the time, the electrifying full six and half-minute version has become a firm fan favourite due to the scarcity of copies of the soundtrack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Originals<\/em> features the Prince version of 15 tracks that the late icon wrote and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/prince-originals-interview-842940\/\">gave away to other artists<\/a>, including hits like the Time\u2019s \u201cJungle Love,\u201d the Bangles\u2019 \u201cManic Monday,\u201d Sheila E.\u2019s \u201cThe Glamorous Life\u201d and Sinead O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u201cNothing Compares 2 U.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-estate-new-holly-rock-animated-video-863660\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince estate has unveiled the colorful animated video for \u201cHolly Rock,\u201d one of the tracks featured on the recent posthumous collection Originals. As Prince\u2019s YouTube account notes, \u201cHolly Rock\u201d was tracked at Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Sound studios in April 1985, the same week that Prince recorded his hit single \u201cKiss.\u201d \u201c\u2018Holly Rock\u2019 was recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 08:03:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}