On one of the Celebration threads...(Sadly, I wasn't there, so I must quote!), the following statement was made:



Now, I know Prince is not one of U2's biggest fans, but I was wondering, when did he start disliking them?

I think it might have been back when "Sign 'O' The Times" was up against U2's "The Joshua Tree" 4 best album at the Grammy's. Prince was up 4 about 4 awards that night and came home empty handed. U2 pretty much swept the awards that night.

After winning, Bono was accepting his award and spoke; mentioning Prince in his speech. I think he referred 2 Prince as a "great storyteller", and I believe it was meant as a compliment, referring 2 his work on SOTT.

Later, Prince spoke 2 reporters ( can u believe it?) and made the statement:

"If I wanted 2, I can play anything they've (U2) done...but can they play 'Housequake'?"

Which is probably a pretty accurate statement, imo.

So I ask u...is there really bad blood? What r ur thoughts?

Didn't Bono come onstage during the mid-90s to play The Cross with Prince?

I think Prince was just making a little joke...

June7 said:

is it u2 fault's they won? weren't other musicinas nominated too. prince seems not to care for awards, so why does he seem jealous?

It always seemed to me that he was trying to differentiate between the band U2 and saying "you too"...especially considering he's performed with Bono at least once after that. I never got the feeling there was any bad blood on either side.

as Bono said...prince isn't just a song and dance man...he's much more...1987

He bed not hate them!

June7 said:

theC
prince sounds a little like rick james(bitter grapes)

is there any bad blood between mj and prince? mady and prince? mel b and prince? mayte and prince? tomy l. and prince? subaas and prince? u and prince? matt and prince?

parreuss said:

It was pretty STIFF competition that year for ALBUM OF THE YEAR...

-SOTT
-Joshua Tree
-Jacko-'Bad'
-Whitney H-'Whitney'
-L.Ronstadt/E.Harris/D.Parton-'Trio'

What a great year! Prince's best album ever nominated...U2's other landmark album (after 'Unforgettable Fire')...Whitney when she was then known as the Princess of Pop (not the Crackhead of Pop)...a huge Jacko album (not spectacular though)...and TRIO one of my all time country favs! Emmylou Harris is an ANGEL!!!
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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

i liked the jacko one. so cool.

subyduby said:

subyduby and June7???

What's ur prob subyduby? It's called conversation. I was just trying 2 find out if there's any bad blood. Is it still okay 2 ask a fucking question around here. Further more, if u don't like the topic, or feel it's redundant, then don't fucking post on it...several times!

hey june the picture in your profile is cool, & don't you know that suby is the moron princess here, her mother is queen O.

June7 said:

I really think he was just making a joke. The 'I love you too', referenced the audience, while the 'not the band' meant he wasn't refering to U2, but to the audience.

Unless this video is wrong ,the 3 canidates for album of the year 1987 were ...

Sign O The Times : Prince
Joshua Tree : U2
Bad : Michael Jackson

personally i thought he was referring to some people that kept clamoring to be upfront and as he later stated "trying to go home with a married man" or something like that. i just thought he meant he loved whoever was screaming but that anyone trying to get with the band to get to him was mistaken, could have been wrong though.

No, if you listen to the classic boot of the Prince aftershow at the 'Pod' in Dublin Ireland [CHRIST I FORGET WHAT YEAR IT WAS!!], Prince gets Bono on stage and they sing the Cross - and Prince says that we are lucky to have Bono around. I think he has a respect / healthy competition with them. someone tell me quick what year it was cuz it'll bug me all day.

U2 proove that you can have talent AND sell records.

GoldiesParade said:

Good point. And Prince proves that you can have talent, not sell records & then cry about it.

subyduby said:

There I don't know, but HERE yes, with me!

I think he likes to give them shit, cuz they damn well know they don't deserve half the success they've had.

Prince and U2 have a strange history. Bono has always professed a huge admiration for the Purple one, The Edge went on record stating that the song "Lemon" was U2's attempt to do a Prince-style tune, and Larry and Adam have both said kind words about him.

Prince, on the other hand, has said both positive and negative things about U2. After SOTT lost out to the The Joshua Tree , Prince did state that he felt he had done the superior record. A 1993 issue of Musician had a feature on Prince and the NPG, where the author noted that Prince seemed to have a "burr up his butt" about U2, viewing them as major rivals. Of course, in 1995 Bono joined Prince and The NPG on stage, and P stated that the world was "lucky to have him", or something to that extent. Prince has also professed his respect for Bono's work to eliminate third-world debt, and stated that he wished he could get Bono to free up some time to help with his fight for artists rights (Prince is probably unaware of the fact that Bono has actually done some campaigning for this)

Ultimately, their doesn't seem to be any real "bad blood". Prince seems to think he got gyped for SOTT, but otherwise he just seems to view them as friendly rivals. In the end, Prince has had a fairly positive influence on U2, at the very least: At a concert stop last year, Bono told a story from the stage concerning P. He said a few years before, he had asked Prince why he was scrawling "Slave" on his face. Prince explained the situation with his fight to get his master tapes back, and asked Bono if he owned his. Bono, of course, did not. This conversation stayed with Bono, and when U2 came up for contract re-negotiations, their management made sure that they got all their master tapes returned to them.

javed said:

March 30, 1995

I think people are just reading too much into all of this. I agree Javed that Prince showed respect for Bono that night (despite the fact he seemingly forgot the lyrics to The Cross too!!!). If there was such bad blood supposedly, it seems unlikely that Prince would have wanted BOno on the stage.

Moreover, the comments in 1987 when U2 won the awards (which incidently June 7 appears to be paraphrasing despite the fact they have been put in quotation marks) appear to have been made to highlight Prince's songwriting diversity rather than to criticise U2 per se. It was understandable how it came across, however.

Similarly, Bono is on record in 1985 at Live Aid, Wembley, as specifically saying that he was sure Prince supported charitable causes generously, despite the bad press Prince was receiving for not attending the We Are The World performance and only sending the '4 The Tears In Your Eyes' video for broadcast at Philadelphia.

Two sensible posts in a row, is this a record!

June7 said:

I don't belive that prince did say something like that. " I can play anythig that u2 played" no, no, no, never...

Maybe Bono's ridiculous hobnobbing with Corporate America (and that god-awful superbowl performance), rubs Prince the wrong way.

Actually, Prince said the "I love you too, but not the band" statement again last night and followed it up with, "Bono's cool" and something else. Anyone else remember?

muleFunk said:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR is most always 5 canidates...I'm 100% POSITIVE about that year...Whitney and the TRIO album were also nom..(if you see the tape..you'll see Prince when they say SOTT and then Linda Ronstadt's voice (from TRIO) right after and Pricne begins to clap.)I have the tape and a Grammy guide that lists nominees and winners for every Grammy show til 2000

June7 said:[quote]On one of the Celebration threads...(Sadly, I wasn't there, so I must quote!), the following statement was made:




Maybe P was referring to the missile? lol
[This message was edited Fri Jun 28 10:24:41 PDT 2002 by Honeylove]

There is a big similarity between The Cross and a song of U2.
When U listen 2 the intro of The Cross and that song (of which I forgot the name, but i think it was a single in the year 1988 or 1999) U can hardly hear the difference of the guitar-line. The similarity is very big!

Prince is an egotistical schmuck. I mean, he's really a very excellent musician, but he should just quit talking.