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Thread started 09/24/16 11:16am

ecnirp0421

How long have u been a Prince fan?

Wow! I was just thinking how long I've been a Prince fan(38yrs) I was so looking forward to his next album b4 he died.
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Reply #1 posted 09/24/16 12:14pm

journalism16

I was born in 85, but I have been a friend of his since the early 90's. So about 20 years.
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Reply #2 posted 09/24/16 12:20pm

malbena

I had different periods.

1- I was introduced to his music when Batman was released. Then I liked what he did up until Diamond and Pearls while researching his past work. I lost interested in the 1992-2000 time.

2- I then started frequenting Paisley Park and there again, I grew to like his new music. I really enjoyed Musicology and the work he did with Bria Valente but lost interest aftewards.

3- Then, I liked what he did with the 3eyegirls only recently.

Does this help? Not sure if I can put a "how long" but ....smile

This is my normal life. These marital standards cannot be recreated with money.
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Reply #3 posted 09/24/16 12:31pm

Guitarhero

From 1980 none stop. Seems a lot of other Prince fans have had time away from him and then come back. Is that just a Prince thing? All the bands and musicians i follow i stick with them through thick and thin. Did MJ fans have time from MJ and then come back, just curious.

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Reply #4 posted 09/24/16 12:47pm

Amethyst5

Thirty-six years (since 1980). cool biggrin

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Reply #5 posted 09/24/16 1:05pm

zenarose

1980 I saw him on the Midnight Special also on American Bandstand. I have been loyal and committed all these years.

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Reply #6 posted 09/24/16 1:18pm

GiggityGoo

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29 years. Since the summer of '87, when an ex-friend sat me down and made me really listen to the entire "Sign 'O' The Times" album. That was when I saw the (purple) light.

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Reply #7 posted 09/24/16 1:41pm

1contessa

Since he first came on the scene and I heard his voice on the radio, then I fell in love with him when I saw his face on the For You album.

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Reply #8 posted 09/24/16 1:58pm

LBrent

1contessa said:

Since he first came on the scene and I heard his voice on the radio, then I fell in love with him when I saw his face on the For You album.



Yup.

I heard Soft & Wet on the radio in late '77-early '78. I was around 16. Geez that was a long time ago.
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Reply #9 posted 09/24/16 2:24pm

GimmeThat

Since 1982. So 34 years! I have loved him since I was 10 years old. Sigh.
2 sevens together
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Reply #10 posted 09/24/16 3:12pm

TrivialPursuit

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I sorta knew about "Soft and Wet", but very much in my peripheral vision. I found "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on a K-Tel record, Soundwaves, tucked in the middle of side one. Oddly, the album cover for Prince was on the back of the Soundwaves album (along with Robbie Dupree's).

Also on the record was great tracks like "Funkytown", "Upside Down", "I Was Made For Loving You" (Kiss), "Steal Away" (Robbie Dupree), "Do That To Me One More Time" (Captain and Tenelle), "Let's Get Serious", "Cupid", and more.

After that - the rest is history. I'm 48, so found him virtually at the beginning of his career. He's only 10 years older than me, so it really has been like a "growing up with" situation. Same with Janet, who is only 2 years older than me, Madge, & MJ.

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Reply #11 posted 09/24/16 4:23pm

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Since I was born LOLOLOL. But I really got into him again when I was 9. Before he passed, there was not a day that went by that I didn't listen to his music. Glad I grew up with his music in my life. heart

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Reply #12 posted 09/24/16 4:24pm

HeavenMustBNea
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1contessa said:

Since he first came on the scene and I heard his voice on the radio, then I fell in love with him when I saw his face on the For You album.

I love this! The fams that got to be there for the ride from the very beginning is so awesome. You guys are so blesssed. Prince has the most amazing fams...and always will.

<3
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Reply #13 posted 09/24/16 4:26pm

paradise000

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Since I first heard "1999", somewhere in '82.

I was thirteen eek

Time flies...

'cause you got to know...how I feel about you babe
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Reply #14 posted 09/24/16 4:39pm

1contessa

LBrent said:

1contessa said:

Since he first came on the scene and I heard his voice on the radio, then I fell in love with him when I saw his face on the For You album.

Yup. I heard Soft & Wet on the radio in late '77-early '78. I was around 16. Geez that was a long time ago.

lol Lord, don't I know it, don't remind me. lol

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Reply #15 posted 09/24/16 4:51pm

Starrdust505

Since he spun my head in mess in the early 80s. I remember being 11 or 12 years old at the time and sitting at home with my family watching tv and the IWBYL video came on. We were all shell shocked eek, parents too biggrin . He looked and sounded like NOTHING we had seen before.....

Come now, isn't life a little better with a pair of good shoes? - Prince 1985
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Reply #16 posted 09/24/16 5:00pm

Marrk

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My Dad owned 'Dirty Mind' back in 1980. I was 10 and mainly dug Adam And The Ants (and still do too!). I resisted the "next best thing" hype with Purple Rain because by then I was an age 14 rebel. Going forward, I did like 'Raspberry Beret' but officially, I'd say i became a fan with 'Kiss' in '86 because i went out and bought the twelve inch myself. Then went back and got everthing.

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Reply #17 posted 09/24/16 5:09pm

Elvie

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27 years ago when I first listened to Lovesexy at my boyfriends house. I then saw him at the Camden gig on TV with Mica Paris and became addicted. I few up abdorbing everything about him. Subsequently saw him live 3 times and forced my kids to listen to him as they grew up too. lol
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Reply #18 posted 09/24/16 6:05pm

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I was 8 when Purple Rain came out, and I loved the soundtrack something fierce. My sister , the neighbor girl and I used to make up dances to Let's Go Crazy and Baby I'm a Star. Listened for the rest of the 80s (Prince occupied a special place in my musical heart, alongside the hair rock I was into at the time) and early and mid 90s.

Prince somewhat fell off my musical map until I met my husband in 2004. He's a huge Prince fan. I've dug most of what Prince has put out from Musicology forward.

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Reply #19 posted 09/24/16 6:14pm

roxy831

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Since 1982

Welcome home class. We've come a long way. - RIP Prince
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Reply #20 posted 09/24/16 6:17pm

SquirrelMeat

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I think, depending on my mood, the answer is '2long' or '4ever'.

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Reply #21 posted 09/24/16 6:20pm

tish9311

I became a fam/fan at the age of 9 during the 1999 period. I listened to that album {yes album} all the time till I got Purple Rain for my bday. Back in those days Prince would always do a concert in Dallas around New Years, for the 1999 tour I couldn't go, for the Purple Rain tour my sister bought me a ticket but didn't take me. I took her to the Hit N Run 2000 show in Dallas-it was our only Prince concert together.

Beautiful, Loved and Blessed

Thank You Prince
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Reply #22 posted 09/24/16 6:23pm

blondie1147

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Since the Purple Rain era at the tender age of 7. biggrin

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Reply #23 posted 09/24/16 6:54pm

LEATHRSAIL

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1983 when 1999 came out. I was 14.... ATWIAD sealed the deal!

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Reply #24 posted 09/24/16 7:39pm

dance4me3121

Since 1989.I was born in 89 and my first memory is of me being 4 years old riding in the car with my dad with the batman album playing on cassette .but my dad tells me he bought batman on the release day and would play it all the time so I had to being hearing it before I was 4.so I would say I've been a fan since birth.
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Reply #25 posted 09/24/16 8:28pm

ldmendes

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1984 when I was in college..Prince was everywhere, even though he's only 1 year older than me, he seemed much older..when I was goofing off in college, he was becoming an international star...however I was a back and forth follower. Always interested in what he was wearing this year. There were years when I didn't buy any of his albums, so I have some catching up to do...Strange how devisating his death was to me..truly feels like I lost someone I've known for years..

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Yes, this is a prettyman, Princey!
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Reply #26 posted 09/24/16 9:26pm

ecnirp0421

zenarose said:



1980 I saw him on the Midnight Special also on American Bandstand. I have been loyal and committed all these years.


I loved his solid gold performance
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Reply #27 posted 09/24/16 9:58pm

eightiesbrat

From the first time I saw the When Doves Cry video, my ears would perk up whenever I heard Prince. I was just a kid though , and for a long time you could only consider me a casual fan. Prince was always on my radar but it wasn't until right after my college years that I began to delve deeper into his catalogue and also saw him in concert for the first time, in 1997. It just grew from there.

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We all want the stuff that's found in our wildest dreams. . .
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Reply #28 posted 09/25/16 2:45am

purpledoda

From Lovesexy album yes

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Reply #29 posted 09/25/16 2:47am

FragileUnderto
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30 something odd years
Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

And I descend from grace, In arms of undertow
I will take my place, In the great below
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