98 on the jam of the year tour!

I once saw Prince walking around nekkid in my backyard.




























Just kidding.

first time I saw him Ever...on TV? hmm....I don't really remember but I think it was the when doves cry video...
first time I ever saw him in the flesh...right in front of me...well now THAT was an experience I'll NEVER forget....
It was as he walked into the letterman show prior to his "dolphin" performance...he was wearing Pink and sequence...and I was about a foot from him when he got outta his limo...I was in total shock. It was like up until that point, I didn't realize he was a "real" person...he was almost like a fictional character to me. I was moved.
I also got to see mayte! I wasn't so "moved" seeing her but it was still cool to see her. I also saw Kathy lee gifford..LOL she came out and nobody screamed her name or anything...I think she was surprised by that. LOL

when i saw the video for "alphabet st." on friday night videos when i was about 7.

On American Bandstand in 1979,i was 13,i've been hooked since!

The 1999 video, back in '82.
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purplerainman said:

That was the first time I saw him too, I was 8 but I didn't get hooked on him till I saw the SOTT movie on cable....then it was alllll over

Either Don Kishner's Rock Concert or The Midnight Special (was that with Wolfman Jack?) singing Dirty Mind. First time in person was Lovesexy Tour in MSG, NYC.

Had heard the For You, Prince and Dirty Mind albums but didn't get a visual until the Controversy video and that's all it took

The first time I ever saw his face.....whatever year "I wanna be your lover" came out. (Too lazy to go upstairs right now and check the album cover.)
The song IWBYL was featured on an album called Soundwaves with various other artists.
I was around 9 or 10 years old. My sister and I bought the album only to get the song "Into the Night" by Benny Mardones.
We get the album through the mail and I see this photo on the back of this cat with long flowing hair and I didn't even know which song on the album was his.
WHAT A TRIP !!!
That was it for me.....

In a magazine: 1978, Right On! magazine poster for the For You album (still got that mug too )

On TV: 1979 American Band Stand

In Concert: 1982 Controversy Tour

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Amazing how you remember the specifics...I have scant memories of Diamonds and Pearls and 1999, I'm not sure which video I saw first. I first saw him in the flesh in 2003.

American Bandstand....January 1980.

If you mean a picture, I first saw him as the Rude boy, with the rain coat and wet looking hair.
If you mean on tv, hmm, I can't remember the video but it was during the era where he had just straightened his hair and was wearing the large gold hoop earrings. I love that look!

on one of those infomercials when they have those 80's music collection c.d.'s, and they kept showing a clip from the LRC video.

i was 8 or 9 years old and it was the summer of 1979, and i'd just come home to indiana from a visit to my grandparents' house in kansas. my mom and i were staying up late watching TV, and on the midnight special (or don kirschner, i forget which), they played the "i wanna be your lover" clip and i remember my mom and i thinking it was a cool song, but the guy performing it looked like an absolute freak and a half.

When Doves Cry Video 1980 something i was around 6..The scence where he's in the bathtub will forever be etched in my mind.

Though I'm sure I'd seen him before then,(because when I saw the pic, even though the caption called him "Mr. Squiggle" I knew who it was) the first time I remember seeing Prince was in the candid celebrity photo section in a copy of Sugar magazine when I was 9 years old on my first trip to England. This was a week or two before my tenth birthday, so it was in March 1995.

Years ago late 70's or early 80's a music show called The Midnight Special. He was singing I Wanna Be Your Lover.

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As for him being on TV, it amy have been the Little Red Corvette video, but me memory is a bit fuzzy.

my mom took me 2 see UTCM when i was a baby... i guess that was the first time i saw him...

august of 2003 when i saw purple rain for the first time. earlier than that maybe the D&P cover?

This is the first ever image I recall of seeing Prince. It was on a lyric site I was seaching on when I was trying to find out about prince early last year. Not a good start at all. But it ain't want some look like, It's what how funk they can become!

Anxiety said:

Glad somebody else remember's Don Kirshner and Midnight Special!

we just had two t.v. stations growing up... so the first time on t.v. was i think the video for "i would die 4 U" that my cousin taped for me. didn't see him in person until 1997.

i need another fix!

prince and the revolution....purple rain tour....december of 1984. i was 10

im not sure when the first time i actually started liking prince was...but i know it was before that, because when my step-dad got those tickets....i was the first person he asked to go he knew i would flip and flip i did. i tease him now....like look at what you started

Princology05 said:

Purple Rain LP cover,i remember my sister didnt give any atention to that record,but it changed my mind about music! When doves cry the first video.

I was at work & saw a pictue of Prince either inside a magazine or on its backcover. I thought something like "Who's this gay guy"? I know...I know - shame on me. Later on (1984) before going to see "Purple Rain" I purchased the cassette. There I was 31yrs old & feeling like a school girl. My son Gabriel was under 3yrs old. He heard the songs so much he began to call Prince "Purple Rain". How cute was that!? I went to see Prince at the Nassau Coliseum 84/85 and from then on I've been in deep admiration for Prince.

Heck: Admiration is not the word. I'm obsessed...My son & I had "secret words" - in case someone told my boy "Your mom\dad asked me to take you home". The secret words were "Purple Rain"!!! Gabe to person: "What are the secret words"? If the person didn't say them...Gabe was instructed to walk or run away from that person.

In Gabe's "Baby Book" (Hey...He's a man now but he'll always be my little one. Dig? )
first Prince concert: "Jam of the Year" Madison Square Garden NYC (year?)
2nd Prince concert "Musicoloy" Madison Square Garden, NYC July 12, 2004

The "Little Red Corvette" video back in '83.