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In our recent clearinghouse of all things purple, we mentioned that the details we had on Prince's upcoming album Planet Earth were a bit, er, scant.

Well, now they're less scant. We've got a release date-- two, actually! Planet Earth will hit July 24 in North America, and July 16 on the rest of, um, planet Earth. And a record label! Columbia Records, come on down.

First single "Guitar" hits radio June 11 (hey, that's today!), but I'm sure all of you have taken full advantage of the marvels of the computer age and downloaded "Guitar" to your Verizon Wireless phone already, right? (Yeah, us neither.)

But the BIG BIG news about the new album is that it finally reunites Prince with Purple Rain protégés Wendy and Lisa, who "are among the musicians appearing on 'Planet Earth'," according to a press release. (That's all we know about their involvement.) YES! Can a full-on Revolution reunion be far behind? We sure hope so. It's not like the doctor guy has anything better to do.

Prince:

07-07 Minneapolis, MN - Macy's
07-07 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
08-01 London, England - O2 Arena
08-03 London, England - O2 Arena
08-04 London, England - O2 Arena
08-07 London, England - O2 Arena
08-10 London, England - O2 Arena
08-11 London, England - O2 Arena
08-14 London, England - O2 Arena
08-17 London, England - O2 Arena
08-18 London, England - O2 Arena
08-24 London, England - O2 Arena
08-25 London, England - O2 Arena
08-28 London, England - O2 Arena
08-31 London, England - O2 Arena
09-01 London, England - O2 Arena
09-06 London, England - O2 Arena
09-09 London, England - O2 Arena
09-12 London, England - O2 Arena
09-13 London, England - O2 Arena
09-16 London, England - O2 Arena
09-20 London, England - O2 Arena
09-21 London, England - O2 Arena