The Vault - Volumes I, II and III is a series of three albums announced on 22 December 1995 during a press release announcing that  had given notice to Warner Bros. of his desire to terminate his contract.
The albums, to be credited to Prince, were to serve as the fulfillment of his contract, which intended to follow by releasing Emancipation. They are believed to be three separate single-disc albums, but as they were only mentioned once on a press release, with no distinction between the three volumes, they are listed here together.
As both Chaos And Disorder and The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale were submitted to Warner Bros. in April 1996, the common assumption has been that these albums made up two of the volumes of The Vault - Volumes I, II and III.
Seven tracks included on the two releases (Dinner With Delores, I Rock, Therefore I Am, Into The Light, I Will, Dig U Better Dead, Had U and Sarah) were recorded between February and April 1996, however, after the press release announcing The Vault - Volumes I, II and III, indicating that some changes took place before the formation of Chaos And Disorder and The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale.
Tracks believed to have been included on The Vault - Volumes I, II and III include Chaos And Disorder, I Like It There, The Same December, Right The Wrong, Zannalee, The Rest Of My Life, It's About That Walk, She Spoke 2 Me, 5 Women, When The Lights Go Down, My Little Pill, There Is Lonely, Old Friends 4 Sale and Extraordinary.
It is likely that several more tracks were included, but no details are known. It is possible, however, that the project was announced in the press release without any corresponding albums completed (indicated by the generic title The Vault - Volumes I, II and III), and that the project was never completed before work on Chaos And Disorder and The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale took over.
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