Fans and friends are still mourning the red of legendary player Prince following his untimely last on April 21 , and those who knew and who worked with the artist have been partake stories about Prince that the public never make love . According toThe Hollywood Reporter , during a Tribeca Film Festival Q&A about the upcoming Netflix musical theater dramaThe Get Down , manager Baz Luhrmann spoke about a collaboration with Prince for the soundtrack of his 2013 moving-picture show , The Great Gatsby , and revealed why the song never came to be .
" It was a reimagined adaptation of a birdcall he did with Martika cry ' Love … Thy Will Be Done ' and it was go to be a major piece in [ the motion picture ] , " Luhrmann say , adding that the birdcall did in fact exist somewhere in the universe . " We did work on it . He was in Australia touring and we did some study there . We did further work out on it . In fact , we worked on it a band . "
According to Luhrmann , the song was " co - possess , " which do some issues that at last result in it being shelve . " He could n’t quite get it give up . And at that stage I had to make another decisiveness , so I went and worked with Lana Del Rey to do the slice we did . " Del Rey ’s Sung , " untried and Beautiful , " went on toreceive a Grammy nominationfor Best Song Written for Visual Media .
" work with him , he is what he look to be : one of a kind , " the conductor said of Prince , who he knead with on a gospel version of " When Doves Cry " for the filmRomeo + Juliet . " There ’s only one Prince , and it ’s a great gloominess that he ’s no longer with us . "
Not long after news of Prince ’s death break , fans and journalists alike began require what would become of the vast accumulation of unreleased music that the creative person is known to havelocked aside in an actual vault . While some trust that the music shouldremain unheard , many others desire that songs like the one made forThe Great Gatsbywill someday achieve the world .
[ h / tThe Hollywood Reporter ]
