Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 29, 1993                   TAG: 9304290016
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From wire reports
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PEOPLE

After 15 full-length studio albums in as many years, the 34-year old singer-songwriter said in a statement that he wanted to devote the rest of his career to performing in theaters, nightclubs, movies and "alternative media."

Prince just completed a U.S. tour that began at the Sunrise Musical Theatre on March 8. He tours Europe starting July 27.

His decision reportedly caught management at Warner Bros. Records off guard. No wonder: They just signed him to a multimillion-dollar recording contract for the next decade.

But not to worry, Prince says. He has a storehouse of about 500 completed tracks that he says Warner can release at will. That's enough for at least 35 albums, which at his current release rate should keep him in record stores until 2028. Some retirement.

Princess Diana on Tuesday said sufferers of eating disorders become trapped in a downward spiral of self-doubt, low self-esteem and guilt.

Speaking fervently and at times haltingly to an international conference of 500 medical experts, the estranged wife of Prince Charles said, "The seeds of this disease may lie in childhood and in the self-doubts and uncertainties that accompany adolescence."

The 31-year-old princess did not directly mention her own widely reported battle with the binge-and-purge illness bulimia throughout her twenties, which often left her appearing painfully thin. But longtime royal watchers in the media said her willingness to talk publicly about the subject, with knowledge of how it would be interpreted, was a tacit acknowledgement of her past problems with the illness.