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Purple Rain re-issue to feature unreleased Prince songs

A remastered version of Prince's landmark album Purple Rain will be released this summer with several previously unreleased songs.

Prince oversaw remastering process for multi-disc release in 2015

A remastered edition of Prince's landmark 1984 album Purple Rain, featuring previously unreleased tracks, is coming in June. (Liu Heung Shing/Associated Press)

A remastered version of Prince's landmark album Purple Rainwill be released this summer with several previously unreleased songs.

In 2015, the year before his death, Prince himself oversaw the remastering of Purple Rain, his landmark album that was accompanied by a film starring the influential singer-songwriter and musician. (Warner Bros.)

NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records announced Friday that two remastered versions of the 1984 album will be released June 23.

The labels said Prince himself oversaw the remastering process in 2015 and the two-disc Purple Rain Deluxeset will include six unreleased tracks.

Among the unreleased tracks are a solo version of the song Possessedand a studio version of Electric Intercourse.

An expanded edition will include a third disc of B-sides and a DVD of a 1985 performance by Prince and the Revolution in Syracuse, N.Y.

Both releases are available for pre-order on Friday.

Prince died a year ago, leaving behind a trove of unreleased music at Paisley Park estate in Minnesota.