Stranger Things has used some big 1980s tracks to great effect throughout its five seasons, most notably the hilarious use of Limahl's "The Neverending Story" in Season 3, and epic addition of Kate ...

“Stranger Things” pulled off a thrilling ending by using two Prince songs in the final episode of the beloved Netflix series. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer secured the rights to “Purple Rain” and When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prince’s Spotify streams doubled after the ‘Stranger Things’ finale Shortly after the Stranger Things finale debuted on Netflix on ...

The first song took place when the Hawkins heroes were escaping the Upside Down and set the explosives at the Upside-Down version of Hawkins Lab, where Murray (Brett Gelman) took out a copy of ...

Securing the rights to use a song in film or TV is a challenging and expensive task — and the more iconic the song, the more challenging and expensive the clearance is likely to be. So when two of ...

On Dec. 31, the beloved horror/sci-fi drama came to a close after five seasons. Stranger Things said good-bye to fans with some help from Prince, whose hits “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry” featured ...

Matt and Ross Duffer tell EW about the "challenging" process of securing rights to "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry" from Prince's estate.

*Securing iconic music for television is famously difficult, but the appearance of Prince‘s “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain” in the “Stranger Things” finale represented a uniquely complex challenge.

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“Stranger Things” pulled off a thrilling ending by using two Prince songs in the final episode of the beloved Netflix series. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer secured the rights to “Purple Rain” and When ...