Prince turns 50, gets angry at Norwegians

It's hard to believe everyone's favorite gender-bending, hypersexual, king of funk-pop is 50. Yes, that is correct, Prince, he of the high-heeled manboots and synth-backed falsetto, celebrated the big 5-0 on June 7.

One of his biggest fans, Christer Falck, head of Norwegian label C+C records, decided to celebrate the big day by recording an 81-track, five-disc set of Prince songs sung by various Norwegian artists. The album was a critical and commercial success in Norway.

But as evidenced in recent years, no one messes with Prince's music and gets away with it.  There was the YouTube controversy a while back, as well as the recent Prince-covering-Radiohead video he wouldn't allow to be posted online.

Once word of the Norwegian cover project made its way back stateside, you can bet the Purple One was pissed.  According to the country's second-largest daily, Dagbladet, the album is more or less doomed. Prince's lawyers have sued C+C Records in addition to asking (perhaps more like demanding) all copies of the album to be destroyed.

You can still find the album listed on C+C's website and some of the tracks can be heard here, but you better hurry. If Prince takes legal action anything like he plays basketball, these songs will be swimming with fishes in no time.

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