Jack White clarifies his plans for releasing lost Prince album ‘Camille’: “I would never mess with his music”

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Jack White has clarified the previous comments he made about his plans to “re-edit” Prince‘s unreleased album ‘Camille’.As Ultimate Classic Rock reports, the musician’s label Third Man Records secured the rights to the late icon’s scrapped 1986 record in March.Although ‘Camille’ was never shared as a complete body of work, all eight tracks that were initially intended to feature on the record have been released in some form (as B-sides or on other reissues etc).For the project, Prince used a pitch-shifting studio technique in order to make his vocals sound more feminine and planned to share the finished product under the pseudonym Camille.This week, White appeared to share his plans for the lost album during an interview with the Daily Star newspaper’s ‘Wired’ column.“We are able to re-edit it as it was originally planned,” he reportedly explained (via Music-News.COM). “So that is great news.

It’s very difficult to confirm because Prince himself changed his mind about ‘Camille’ when he was about to release it.“[But] I don’t think [releasing] it goes against his will, because he ended up issuing many of the songs on different recordings over the years.

It’s not like he didn’t want them to see the light of day.”Taking to Instagram today (July 1), the former White Stripes frontman shared a statement in an attempt to “clear up any misunderstanding” about the project.“This headline [‘Jack White confirms plans to ‘re edit’ and release lost Prince album ‘Camille”] is misleading and I want to make sure the message is clear, neither I nor third man records, have any intention of ‘editing’ or ‘remixing’ Prince’s music,” White began.“I was referring to simply putting the songs in the original order that the album ‘Camille’ was in,.