It's one of the most acclaimed albums of all time by one of the most beloved musicians of the 20th century - and now, it's getting the deluxe treatment.

Prince's 1987 masterpiece Sign "O" The Times will be remastered and reissued by Warner Records on September 25, kicking off 2020's box set season with considerable style. It'll be available in multiple formats: newly remastered double CD or double vinyl, a 3CD or 4LP set that includes all the original B-sides and single mixes, and a massive 8CD/DVD or 13LP/DVD super deluxe box that adds hours of unreleased, often mythic outtakes - some never available as bootlegs - and audiovisual concert material from one of Prince's most ambitious years. It's all packed in a deluxe box sporting an outtake from the album cover sessions by Jeff Katz, and will feature a 120-page hardcover book featuring unpublished photos and lyric sheets plus new liner notes and essays by Dave Chappelle (speaking with photographer Mathieu Bitton); Lenny Kravitz; engineer Susan Rogers; Daphne A. Brooks; William R. Kenan, Jr., professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University; author/Official Prince Podcast host Andrea Swensson; and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl (author of a comprehensive book on the Purple Rain sessions, with a volume on Sign "O" The Times slated for publication next year). Newly remastered 2CD and 2LP sets (on peach and black vinyl) will also release the same day.

The Sign "O" The Times party kicks off with the August 14 shipping of a new vinyl singles box set, strictly limited to 1,987 copies and manufactured by Third Man Pressing in Detroit, MI. The set features replicas of all the original 7" singles ("Sign 'O' The Times," "If I Was Your Girlfriend," "U Got The Look," "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man") plus promo releases ("Hot Thing," "The Cross") and two unreleased versions of outtake "Witness 4 The Prosecution." (The first version is streaming now.)

While it's tempting to denote any period of Prince's recording career as "prolific," the material that would become Sign "O" The Times is almost universally beloved by fans and critics alike for its ambition and sheer creativity. In the spring of 1986, even before the release of Prince's film Under The Cherry Moon and companion album Parade, he was beginning to assemble a fourth Prince and The Revolution album. Provisionally titled Dream Factory, it featured upbeat pop/rock in the vein of Around The World In a Day (1985) and Parade ("Starfish and "Coffee," "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man"), swinging funk numbers ("Dream Factory," "Witness 4 The Prosecution") and minimalist, introspective cuts ("Sign 'O' The Times," "Crystal Ball," "The Cross").

Things changed when The Revolution's guitarist and keyboardist duo, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, split from the group. Though they were convinced to come back for one last tour of Europe and Japan in the summer of 1986, Prince fired nearly the entire group afterward (save keyboardist Matt Fink) and started reconfiguring Dream Factory with tracks cut over the fall of that year. Retitled Crystal Ball, it was submitted to Warner Bros., who balked at the album's six-sided sequence after sales of Parade failed to meet the label's expectations. After considering a shorter album of some of the tracks recorded as "Camille," a female alter ego created by speeding up some of Prince's vocals ("Housequake," "Strange Relationship," "If I Was Your Girlfriend"), Prince eventually cut Crystal Ball down to two records and released it as Sign "O" The Times.

Despite the album's complex gestation, Sign was universally praised and an international bestseller. It topped the Village Voice's annual year-end Pazz & Jop album and singles poll - reportedly one of the most unanimous winners of any year - and has since placed high on best-albums lists by Rolling Stone, NME and Time Out. Three of its singles reached the Top 10 in America: the socially-conscious title track, the danceable "U Got The Look" (a late entry on the album, cut as a duet with Sheena Easton) and the power-pop rave "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man." Prince took a new band (including Fink and Boni Boyer on keyboards, guitarist Mike Weaver, bassist Levi Seacer, Jr., drummer Sheila E., singer/dancers Cat Glover, Greg Brooks and Wally Safford, and the horn section of Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss) to Europe to promote the album. Part of that tour was filmed and released as the Sign "O" The Times concert film at the end of 1987.

Nearly half the disc of B-sides - including remixed versions of "Housequake," "Hot Thing," and B-sides "La, La, La, He, He, Hee" and "Shockadelica" - are making their debuts on CD. The three CDs or six LPs of material from Prince's storied vault stretch all the way back to an early version of "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" cut in 1979 to tracks cut in the summer of 1987, and include many fan favorite outtakes from the Dream Factory and Crystal Ball sessions that weren't included on the 1998 outtakes set Prince released, also titled Crystal Ball. Highlights include alternate mixes of "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" (with horns) and "Strange Relationship" (with Wendy & Lisa's input), fan favorite outtakes like "Rebirth Of The Flesh" (one of the only unreleased songs earmarked for the Camille project), "Can I Play With U?" (featuring unheard trumpet solos from Prince's then-new labelmate, jazz legend Miles Davis) and "The Ball" (which was given new lyrics and released as "Eye No," the opener to 1988's Lovesexy), and highly-coveted tracks like "Wally," "Cosmic Day," "Emotional Pump" and many, many more.

As for live material, the Sign "O" The Times box doesn't disappoint, offering two discs of an unreleased concert recorded in Utrecht, The Netherlands near the end of the Sign tour as well as a DVD of a benefit concert for the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, recorded at Prince's Paisley Park studio on the last night of 1987 and featuring a surprise appearance from Miles Davis once more.

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Sign "O" The Times: Deluxe Edition (NPG/Warner Records, 2020)

Remastered 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Remastered 2LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD)
Expanded 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Expanded 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Deluxe 8CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Deluxe 13LP/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD/LP 1-2: Original album remastered (released as Paisley Park 25577, 1987)

1. Sign "O" The Times
2. Play In The Sunshine
3. Housequake
4. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
5. It
6. Starfish and Coffee
7. Slow Love
8. Hot Thing
9. Forever In My Life

1. U Got The Look
2. If I Was Your Girlfriend
3. Strange Relationship
4. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
5. The Cross
6. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
7. Adore

CD 3/LP 3-4: Single Mixes & Edits (available in deluxe and super deluxe editions)

1. Sign "O" The Times (Edit)
2. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Edit)
3. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive)
4. If I Was Your Girlfriend (Edit)
5. Shockadelica
6. Shockadelica (12" Long Version)
7. Housequake (Edit)
8. U Got The Look (Long Look)
9. Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade)
11. Hot Thing (Edit)
12. Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
13. Hot Thing (Dub Version)

Tracks 1-2 released as Paisley Park single 7-28399, 1987
Track 3 released on Paisley Park 12" single 0-20648, 1987
Tracks 4-5 released as Paisley Park single 7-28334, 1987
Track 6 released on Paisley Park 12" single 0-20697, 1987
Track 7 released on Paisley Park single 7-28289, 1987
Tracks 8-9 released on Paisley Park 12" single 0-20727, 1987
Tracks 10-11 released as Paisley Park single 7-28288, 1987
Tracks 12-13 released on Paisley Park 12" single 0-20728, 1987

CD 4/LP 5-6: Vault, Part 1 (available in super deluxe editions)

1. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)
2. Teacher Teacher (1985 Version)
3. All My Dreams
4. Can I Play With U? (feat. Miles Davis)
5. It's a Wonderful Day (Original Version)
6. Strange Relationship (Original Version)
7. Visions
8. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker (with Horns)
9. Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)
10. Power Fantastic (Live In Studio)
11. And That Says What?
12. Love and Sex (1986 Version)
13. A Place In Heaven (Prince Vocal)
14. Colors
15. Crystal Ball (7" Mix)
16. Big Tall Wall (Version 1)
17. Neveah Ni Ecalp A
18. In a Large Room With No Light

CD 5/LP 7-8: Vault, Part 2 (available in super deluxe editions)

1. Train
2. It Ain't Over Til The Fat Lady Sings
3. Eggplant (Original Prince Vocal)
4. Everybody Want What They Don't Got
5. Blanche
6. Soul Psychodelicide (1986 Master)
7. The Ball
8. Adonis & Bathsheba
9. Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Run-Through)
10. Crucial (Alternate Lyrics)
11. The Cocoa Boys
12. When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes
13. Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 2)
14. It Be's Like That Sometimes

CD 6/LP 9-10: Vault, Part 3 (available in super deluxe editions)

1. Emotional Pump
2. Rebirth Of The Flesh
3. Cosmic Day
4. Walkin' In Glory
5. Wally
6. I Need a Man
7. Promise To Be True
8. Jealous Girl (Version 2)
9. There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool
10. Big Tall Wall (Version 2)
11. A Place In Heaven (Lisa Vocal)
12. Wonderful Day (12" Mix)
13. Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)

CD 7-8/LP 11-13: Live At Stadion De Galgenwaard, Utrecht, The Netherlands - 6/20/1987 (available in super deluxe editions)

1. Intro/Sign "O" The Times
2. Play In The Sunshine
3. Little Red Corvette
4. Housequake
5. Girls & Boys
6. Slow Love
7. Take The "A" Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
8. Hot Thing
9. Four (includes Sheila E. drum solo)
10. If I Was Your Girlfriend

1. Let's Go Crazy
2. When Doves Cry
3. Purple Rain
4. 1999
5. Forever In My Life
6. Kiss
7. The Cross
8. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

DVD: Live At Paisley Park, Chanhassen, MN - 12/31/1987 (available in super deluxe editions)

1. Sign "O" The Times
2. Play In The Sunshine
3. Little Red Corvette
4. Erotic City
5. Housequake
6. Slow Love
7. Do Me, Baby
8. Adore
9. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
10. What's Your Name Jam
11. Let's Pretend We're Married
12. Delirious
13. Jack U Off
14. Drum Solo
15. Twelve
16. Hot Thing
17. If I Was Your Girlfriend
18. Let's Go Crazy
19. When Doves Cry
20. Purple Rain
21. 1999
22. U Got The Look
23. It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night Medley (feat. Miles Davis)

Sign "O" The Times 7" Vinyl SIngles Box Set (NPG/Warner/Third Man, 2020)

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Single 1: Sign "O" The Times (edit) b/w La, La, La, He, He, Hee
Single 2: If I Was Your Girlfriend (edit) b/w Shockadelica
Single 3: U Got The Look b/w Housequake (edit)
Single 4: I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (fade) b/w Hot Thing (edit)
Single 5: Hot Thing (edit) - both sides
Single 6: The Cross b/w Adore
Single 7: Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1) b/w Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 2)