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3 Chains O’ Gold is the 16th track (15th song) on Prince’s 14th album  , the second album to be credited to Prince and the New Power Generation.
While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place around Halloween 1991 in late October/early November 1991, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during a 10-hour session that also yielded Love 2 The 9’s and Johnny).
The track was included as the 22nd track (14th song) on a March 1992 configuration of the album, and the 22nd track (15th song) on a late-Summer 1992 configuration, until many of the album’s segues were removed for release.
An alternate early take was one of the Vault tracks recorded between 1990 and 1992 slated to appear on the planned Diamonds & Love expected to be released by The Prince Estate in the summer of 2022. That project, which consisted of material spanning both the Diamonds And Pearls and eras, was reduced to the Diamonds And Pearls era, excluding songs recorded after October 1991 (and this track as a result).
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