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DJ Magazine reports Prince’s estate will host a four-day celebration in honor of the 'Purple Rain' singer. The event will take place at Prince’s home-turned-museum, Paisley Park, and will feature guided tours, panel discussions and live music from some of Prince’s former collaborators.  BIM:    Sound Familiar? Yes, exactly! Elvis Week. The celebration will take place during the first anniversary of Prince's passing. I bet a vigil will be part of the plan as well. There's two very good reasons for that. 1. The company now managing Graceland and it's tour operations also is starting up Paisley Place. 2. Our very own, Angie Marchese, Director of Archives is also now part of Paisley Place. I am sure her years of experience and knowledge are helping build and protect the legacy of Prince just as she has done for Elvis Presley. New Power Generation, the Revolution and 3rdeyegirl are set to perform, with tickets currently on sale for $ 499 for g...

"Paisley is representative of everything Prince was and what Prince stood for and it is a very exciting time here," said Angie Marchese, Director of Archives at Paisley Park .  Visitors to the museum can see the studios where he recorded his hits, his guitars, "Purple Rain" motorcycle, costumes, awards and other memorabilia. Also on display is an urn and a stylized replica of the building that contains Prince's ashes. "Oh the collection is massive here, we've got over 6,000 pieces of wardrobe in the collection. Over 121 guitars, so we've got everything from the hohner guitar which, as you know, created so much great music, to handwritten lyrics in a spiral notebook from 1977 for his first album, 'For You.' Costumes from 'Purple Rain,' the Oscar is on display, as well as costumes all through his last tour. So it kind of spans the gamut, there's wardrobe, there's instruments, there's handwritten lyrics," Ma...

Bremer Trust, which is administering Prince’s contested estate has entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of Graceland Holdings, LLC, for the "development, management, and oversight of all aspects of the museum at Paisley Park," according to the proposal. Graceland Holdings, which manages Elvis Presley’s home, Graceland, will also provide initial financing for the museum. THE MUSEUM EXPECTS UP TO 2,000 DAILY VISITORS! Although the plan to convert the estate into a museum has not been officially approved, tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday, August 26th, at 3PM ET, through the Paisley Park website . The proposal states regular tickets will be sold for $38.50, and VIP tickets for $100 . (All the proposal says about the VIP experience is that tours will be in "smaller groups" than the 25 to 30 people planned for regular tours.) Prince’s legendary home and recording studio complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota, will likely open to public tours beginni...

Prince's home is now the domain of the King -- as in Elvis Presley's people running tours at Paisley Park. The bank that manages Prince's estate -- Bremer Trust -- just announced the deal that puts the people who run Graceland in charge of public tours, which are set to begin in October. Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, is reportedly on board with the Elvis plan, but sources close to the heirs tell TMZ not everyone in the family agrees. We're told the dissenting family members objected, in part, because Graceland Holdings has previously had financial problems. As it stands, team Elvis would get 50% of revenue generated by Paisley Park tours. We're told Bremer's currently negotiating with the family in hopes of getting everyone on board, but that's more for PR purposes. Fact is, the tours are going to happen ... but it seems the bank just wants to make sure Prince family members don't publicly bad mouth the deal.

Prince’s Paisley Park home is set to become a museum after his sudden death last week. The mansion near Minneapolis, Minnesota, has become a focus for fans mourning their hero since the Purple Rain singer, below, was found not breathing in the lift at his home. And the extravagant 50,000sq ft complex, which contains a recording studio and nightclub, is set to become a lasting point of pilgrimage for fans – just like Elvis Presley’s Graceland. The singer’s brother-in-law Maurice Phillips told The Sun: “We will turn Paisley Park into a museum in Prince’s memory. “It would be for the fans. He was all about the fans – this would remember his music, which is his legacy. “Prince was always private but would have wanted his music remembered.” Yahoo News