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Article - Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429
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Reply #1 posted 06/22/17 11:46am

feeluupp

Latin said:

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429

Dupe... Already posted this.

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Reply #2 posted 06/22/17 11:47am

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Working for Prince was not for the faint of heart. But then again, it emboldened those who did it. Music emboldened him and I think maybe he wanted that for everyone else (his fans, himself, his bandmembers) . There is a purity to that. It wasn't selfless (he was the star who got most of the attention) but it was still about inclusion, connection, purity and intergrety for him. Maybe, he was trying to be a loving tyrant (like he said) . It is kind of amazing that he was so young when he was making all these decisions and leading a band.

Latin said:

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429

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Reply #3 posted 06/22/17 12:32pm

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The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429


http://diffuser.fm/prince...iful-ones/

Did you see this article about the Beatiful Ones today. Notice that the media is continuing to discount what Prince said about this song and notice the last line in the article.

Prince’s Girlfriend Inspires ‘The Beautiful Ones,’ But Which One?: 365 Prince Songs in a Year

Common knowledge has long held that “The Beautiful Ones” was written for Prince’s former girlfriend Susannah Melvoin. Engineer Susan Rogers, for one, has confirmed it.

The timeline certainly fits: Susannah, the twin sister of Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin, was seeing someone else when she met Prince in May 1983. But even Melvoin has admitted that she isn’t completely sure about the genesis of “The Beautiful Ones.”

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“We were very attached,” Susannah said in Let’s Go Crazy, “and he spoke a lot through music. He would come and play me something, and I knew perfectly well it was about me.”

But not this time. Instead, “The Beautiful Ones” blends his initial feelings about a painful real-life split with the invented story arc for Apollonia. “It’s not about somebody human that I’m looking at right now,” he told Ebony. “It wouldn’t have worked if it was. This was literally for that character.

And that’s why it worked.”


Vanity’s tragic death in 2016 – she suffered kidney failure after years of earlier crack cocaine abuse – brought her role in this song’s creation back into sharp focus for Prince.


He dedicated “The Beautiful Ones” to Vanity during the first show of a solo Australia tour, just days after her passing. “Her and I used to love each other deeply,” Prince said from on stage in Melbourne. “She loved me for the artist I was; I loved her for the artist she was trying to be.”


When he got to “I’m begging down on my knees,” one of the song’s most tortured lines, Prince ad-libbed “Denise.”



Read More: Prince's Girlfriend Inspi... in a Year | http://diffuser.fm/prince...ck=tsmclip

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Reply #4 posted 06/22/17 12:40pm

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Melvoin: Our soundchecks would start at like 2 in the afternoon and we'd play until 5. Each person would have to keep running out to get hair and makeup done. We wouldn't leave to go back to the hotel after soundcheck. We had to stay there. The show would go on at 8.

WOW!!! eek cool

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Reply #5 posted 06/22/17 12:45pm

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Latin said:

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429

Already posted about this in the morning...

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http://prince.org/msg/7/443850

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Reply #6 posted 06/22/17 1:18pm

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http://prince.org/msg/7/443850

feeluupp said:

Latin said:

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429

Already posted about this in the morning...

THREAD here:

http://prince.org/msg/7/443850

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Reply #7 posted 06/22/17 6:43pm

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feeluupp said:

Latin said:

The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429

Already posted about this in the morning...

THREAD here:

http://prince.org/msg/7/443850


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