{"id":491134,"date":"2019-10-10T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=897690"},"modified":"2019-10-10T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T03:45:42","slug":"prince-estate-blasts-trump-for-playing-purple-rain-again-during-campaign-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/prince-estate-blasts-trump-for-playing-purple-rain-again-during-campaign-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Estate Blasts Trump for Playing \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 Again During Campaign Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s team played Prince<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d during a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, violating an agreement made by Trump\u2019s campaign and the Prince Estate in 2018. The Prince Estate shared the written agreement on Twitter. The letter from the campaign\u2019s legal representatives said it would not use any Prince songs in connection with Trump campaign events, per the estate\u2019s request<\/a> that was made after Trump used the song during pre-Election Day rallies.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump played Prince\u2019s \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 tonight at a campaign event in Minneapolis despite confirming a year ago that the campaign would not use Prince\u2019s music,\u201d the Prince Estate wrote on Twitter. \u201cThe Prince Estate will never give permission to President Trump to use Prince\u2019s songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Playing Prince before a Trump rally in Minneapolis is sacrilege pic.twitter.com\/NPyrLqGWTJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the letter on Jones Day letterhead from October 2018, the law firm that represented Trump\u2019s campaign at the time (according to Politico<\/em><\/a>, Trump hired its own in-house attorney for his 2020 run in April), acknowledged the Prince Estate\u2019s request and stated the campaign would abide by it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour letter requests, on behalf of the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson (\u201cPrince\u201d) that the Campaign refrain from using Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d or any other Prince music in connection with Campaign rallies or other Campaign events,\u201d the letter shared by the Estate via Twitter reads. \u201d Without admitting liability, and to avoid any future dispute, we write to confirm that the Campaign will not use Prince\u2019s music in connection with its activities going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump played Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d tonight at a campaign event in Minneapolis despite confirming a year ago that the campaign would not use Prince\u2019s music. The Prince Estate will never give permission to President Trump to use Prince\u2019s songs. pic.twitter.com\/FuMUPzSWOe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Prince (@prince) October 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A representative for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Many artists have asked Trump to stop using their music during his rallies, dating back to when he first campaigned as a Republican presidential candidate. The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Tom Petty and Aerosmith, among others<\/a>, have all demanded that Trump stop employing their songs.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s team played Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain\u201d during a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, violating an agreement made by Trump\u2019s campaign and the Prince Estate in 2018. The Prince Estate shared the written agreement on Twitter. The letter from the campaign\u2019s legal representatives said it would not use any Prince songs in connection […]<\/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":["post-491134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 23:29:50","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\/491134","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=491134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}