A cassette tape containing unreleased early tracks by Prince is set for auction.
The songs, recorded in the 1970s, feature alongside three early versions of tunes he would later release, including So Blue, Gotta Broken Heart Again, and Sometimes It Snows in April.
According to TheWrap, two of the unreleased tracks feature "bouncy, upbeat choruses and risque lyrics", while the third song comes with "a chorus that includes very candid sexual pleas from Prince."
The iconic musician's guitarist and frequent collaborator Dez Dickerson is putting the item up for sale, and writes: "Prince originally gave me the cassette in late 1978 because he wanted me to listen to a record he had recorded on side A (a female-fronted funk band whose name I don't remember now).
"Sometime during the next year or so, I used the A side to record some scratch bass and guitar parts for songs I was going to be recording for a rock/power pop demo I was doing, recording over the original content (you can still hear a snippet of the funk record at the end of the side)."
