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Thread started 07/20/16 10:26pm

PeteSilas

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, live?

i just saw an article on line about the slowly processing court case against Prince for plagiarizing an song by an italian group. Being as TMBGITW was Prince's last smash hit, I thought it was peculiar that I never heard him do it live. Now, I know that prince kept control of a lot of his live recordings so just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean he hasn't done it, but I couldn't help but wonder why it wasn't a live staple, maybe he didn't want to create more problems for himself. Also, most of us hardcore fans know that he did many songs as good or better than that hit so it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am curious. What do you think?

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Reply #1 posted 07/20/16 11:04pm

KnowThySelfie

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PeteSilas said:

i just saw an article on line about the slowly processing court case against Prince for plagiarizing an song by an italian group. Being as TMBGITW was Prince's last smash hit, I thought it was peculiar that I never heard him do it live. Now, I know that prince kept control of a lot of his live recordings so just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean he hasn't done it, but I couldn't help but wonder why it wasn't a live staple, maybe he didn't want to create more problems for himself. Also, most of us hardcore fans know that he did many songs as good or better than that hit so it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am curious. What do you think?

He did it at every show on the Ultimate Live Experience shows in 1995, then the Japanese shows in 1996. It was played every night on the 1997 Jam Of The Year shows too, so it was solidly played at almost every show over a 3 year period.

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Reply #2 posted 07/20/16 11:45pm

PeteSilas

ok, thanks for your reply.

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Reply #3 posted 07/21/16 12:56am

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PeteSilas said:

i just saw an article on line about the slowly processing court case against Prince for plagiarizing an song by an italian group. Being as TMBGITW was Prince's last smash hit, I thought it was peculiar that I never heard him do it live. Now, I know that prince kept control of a lot of his live recordings so just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean he hasn't done it, but I couldn't help but wonder why it wasn't a live staple, maybe he didn't want to create more problems for himself. Also, most of us hardcore fans know that he did many songs as good or better than that hit so it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am curious. What do you think?

If you were this.....

You would never have said this.

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Reply #4 posted 07/21/16 1:16am

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The Most Beautiful Girl.

Live?

There's a concert 1994 from Miami on iTunes, it's an official so I hope its' OK and I can talk about this,

Sound quality is great... IMO.

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Reply #5 posted 07/21/16 4:22am

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I wasn't crazy about the live performance of it in a lot of these shows, cuss he had false backing vocals behind it.Pussey Control was the same.
But the recent Piano an microphone performances of the song have been fantastic.
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Reply #6 posted 07/21/16 4:52am

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This website isn't complete, but it's a good place to start for questions like this...

http://www.prince-live.co...ong_id=400
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Reply #7 posted 07/21/16 5:54am

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He also played most beautiful girl live a few years ago when I saw him on the "welcome 2 america" tour
There's Joy in repetition
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Reply #8 posted 07/21/16 9:43am

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PeteSilas said:

i just saw an article on line about the slowly processing court case against Prince for plagiarizing an song by an italian group. Being as TMBGITW was Prince's last smash hit, I thought it was peculiar that I never heard him do it live. Now, I know that prince kept control of a lot of his live recordings so just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean he hasn't done it, but I couldn't help but wonder why it wasn't a live staple, maybe he didn't want to create more problems for himself. Also, most of us hardcore fans know that he did many songs as good or better than that hit so it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am curious. What do you think?

http://princevault.com/index.php?title=The_Most_Beautiful_Girl_In_The_World

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Reply #9 posted 07/21/16 12:58pm

PeteSilas

antonb said:

I wasn't crazy about the live performance of it in a lot of these shows, cuss he had false backing vocals behind it.Pussey Control was the same. But the recent Piano an microphone performances of the song have been fantastic.

i've got to find that. I learned it on piano myself. I notice that when prince covers his songs on piano he usually takes out large chunks of the arrangement and focuses on chords and rhythm.

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Reply #10 posted 07/21/16 1:00pm

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PeteSilas said:

i just saw an article on line about the slowly processing court case against Prince for plagiarizing an song by an italian group. Being as TMBGITW was Prince's last smash hit, I thought it was peculiar that I never heard him do it live. Now, I know that prince kept control of a lot of his live recordings so just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean he hasn't done it, but I couldn't help but wonder why it wasn't a live staple, maybe he didn't want to create more problems for himself. Also, most of us hardcore fans know that he did many songs as good or better than that hit so it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am curious. What do you think?

If you were this.....

You would never have said this.

wink

I really don't think he's performed it that much at least in recent years. I have some of his major performances and he doesn't do it in those. But who knows with his extensive efforts to block everything out.

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Reply #11 posted 07/21/16 1:02pm

mtlfan

He played it in the sampler sets I saw in 2011 and 2016.

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Reply #12 posted 07/21/16 1:06pm

PeteSilas

thanks for your responses i'm going to find a version right now.

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Reply #13 posted 07/21/16 2:48pm

PeteSilas

just heard the P&m version, as expected, he changed it radically. I couldn't find a real, full band version that wasn't lip synced.

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