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Paris show...LE PARISIEN article

Prince a enflammé le Zénith

A 20 h 45, alors que son concert parisien avait commencé, hier soir, depuis à peine une demi-heure, Prince, 44 ans, entonnait, déjà, « Purple Rain », le morceau qui, au début des années quatre-vingt, à fait de lui une star. Et, mine de rien, c'est ça que les 6 000 personnes attendaient. C'est l'avantage avec l'Américain Roger Nelson, alias Prince. Même si ses récentes productions sont uniquement accessibles via Internet et lorgnent plutôt du côté du jazz, il ne rechigne jamais, lors de ses passages à Paris, à jouer ses anciens morceaux.
Spirale sensuelle
Après avoir entamé sa prestation par de larges extraits de « The Rainbow Children », son nouvel album, il ne s'est pas privé d'aller chercher aux tréfonds de son immense répertoire, comme un tourbillon funk à l'énergie unique. Après ce « Purple Rain », qui a fait se lever d'un seul homme le Zénith, Prince, tiré à quatre épingles dans un élégant costume croisé, a joué au passeur. Un passeur entre le rock et le funk, le funk et le jazz, le jazz et la pop. Epaulé par une section de cuivres dirigée par le vétéran Maceo Parker, il a mêlé tous ses thèmes, « Housequake », « The Work », dans une spirale irrésistiblement dansante et sensuelle. Puis il a enchaîné ses tubes d'hier, entre « Sign'O the Times », « When you Were mine », « Pop Life », « I'll be with You » et autres « Rasberry Beret ». Autant de classiques chantés en choeur par ses fans avant des rappels axés sur ses ballades les plus torrides, comme le « Nothings Compare 2 U », offert autrefois à Sinead O' Connor. De quoi consoler ceux qui, désespérément, se demandaient comment obtenir des places ­ au prix exorbitant de 120 €­ pour son second concert, prévu pendant la nuit au Bataclan...

SORRY NO TRANSLATION YET
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Reply #1 posted 10/29/02 1:22pm

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Albator said:

SORRY NO TRANSLATION YET
Where's Aerogram when you need him?
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Reply #2 posted 10/29/02 2:25pm

jnoel

article bien tiède pour décrire une tuerie du meilleur performer de l'histoire du rock'n roll.« I'll be with You » hehe.
[This message was edited Tue Oct 29 14:27:04 PST 2002 by jnoel]
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Reply #3 posted 10/29/02 4:44pm

love4oneanothe
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Très bien … je suis ravi d’entendre les bons mots au sujet de Prince qui règnent maintenant à Paris ! J’espère d’entendre plus d’opinions envers le concert.

Remerciements aux français !
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Reply #4 posted 10/29/02 11:25pm

Justin

Prince set Le Zenith on fire...

At 8:45pm, after his parisian gig, last night, had already been going on for a half hour, Prince, 44, was already singing "purple rain", the song which in the early 80's made him a star.And despite showing it, this is what the 6000 person had been waiting for. that's the advantage with the american Roger Nelson, alias Prince, even if his recent productions have been only accessible through the internet, and are more so on the jazzy side, he never fails, while in Paris, playing his older tunes.

Sensual spiral,
After starting with long pieces of "the rainbow children", his new album, He didn't deprave himself by digging at the bottom of his immense repertoire, just as a twirl of funk with unique energy.
After "purple rain" which made everybody in le Zenith stand up at once, prince elegantly dressed in a pinstripped suit played a visitor. revisiting between rock and funk, funk and jazz, jazz and pop.
With the help of veteran Maceo parker directing the horns section, he mixed all his themes, "housequake", "the work"
in an irrestibly dancing sensual spiral.
He then followed with older hits, " Sign of the times", "when U were mine", "pop life, "i'll B with U" and other "rasberry beret"
many classics sang and known by heart from his fans before a few encores based on his most torrid ballads, such as" nothing compares to U" previously given 2 sinnead O'connor.
Enough to cheer the ones wondering how to get the exorbitantly priced tickets 120Euro for his second nightly show scheduled at Le bataclan.

close enuff 4 the translation.. Njoy smile
[This message was edited Tue Oct 29 23:27:22 PST 2002 by Justin]
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Reply #5 posted 10/30/02 3:40pm

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Justin said:

Prince set Le Zenith on fire...

... close enuff 4 the translation.. Njoy smile
Thanks. Justin - if I use the old mechanical translators like alatavista, I end up with phrases like:

'Prince, drawn with four pins in an elegant crossed costume' and 'he was not deprived to go to seek with the subsoils of its immense repertory'. This strikes me as a great way to write off-beat lyrics rather like using the old cut-up technique!

I think 'I'll B With U' must be 'Take Me With U'.
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Reply #6 posted 10/31/02 1:04am

Justin

I think it was the song "with U" but U know them french people..
I just left the songs quoted as they quoted it..hehehehe
Thank U God for making me Bilingual Btw...

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Justin said:

Prince set Le Zenith on fire...

... close enuff 4 the translation.. Njoy smile
Thanks. Justin - if I use the old mechanical translators like alatavista, I end up with phrases like:

'Prince, drawn with four pins in an elegant crossed costume' and 'he was not deprived to go to seek with the subsoils of its immense repertory'. This strikes me as a great way to write off-beat lyrics rather like using the old cut-up technique!

I think 'I'll B With U' must be 'Take Me With U'.
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