Do you remember where U were when U became a Prince fan? Is it a moment that U will always remember? Or is it a moment that you'd rather forget? was a little kid(9 years old) listening to the radio and heard "Do Me Baby" and I've been hooked every since. .

i was in my sister's living room.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

May I ask how old you were? .

nurse said:

about 14.

Spent a night at my friends place when I was 15, and we watched the music hits show and cream came on as the sureshot. We were both hooked, and it was cream everything for literally the next 4 months!!!

Sitting on the lounge floor when I was about twelve or thirteen years old, watching "Top of the Pops" on a Thursday evening, and they played a snippet of "When Doves Cry" as it had just been released. That was it.

I was always aware of dude...My cousin had the "Soft & Wet" single...And when "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and Controversy" dropped, I dug those songs...But I really didn't become a hardcore fan until I was about 12...I remember watching the "1999" video on a local video show in Chicago...I was hooked...
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Just heard some of his tunes and they were good. I guess I'm not a huge fan of his. Just a casual fan.

He puts out so much I can't understand how people can like it all. I also don't understand the reverse , how people can not at least like some of his music. The man is a hard worker.

The "1999" & "Little Red Corvette" videos -- I was 12, or just turned 13. Loved the music, the style, the energy...

1981 in a record store with Controversy playing.

Hmm... That's hard to say. I just became it, gradually. I remember enjoy watching Diamonds & Pearls and SexyMF on Mtv and VH1 when I was about six, and I remember how strange I thought it was when he became a symbol and I asked my mother why somebody would wanna do something like that?!

Then, 5 years ago or so we got a computer with Windows Media Player. I thought it was so cool and just looked up different artists. Then I suddenly remembered Prince and checked if there were some stuff of his there and so was the case. I listened to some of those samples and watched some of his music videos and then I was stuck

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

must not make a dirty joke...

SlamGlam said:

prrrrrv.

1983 in my bedroom.I bought 1999 on vinyl because I'd seen him on Top of the Pops and was intrigued.Then when I listened to the whole album that was it,I've been hooked ever since.

skipper said:

what version was it? didn't they put out a single and a double album version of it over there?

Definitively, in 1985 when I first heard Raspberry Beret for the first time on radio one in my father's car, the year after I saw Prince & the Revolution live and I'm still here.
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theives in the temple

funkii said:

im only young
well kinda

1989: I heard my radio station played Batdance. I like the song and became a casual fan.
1991 watching Purple Rain on TV. and two weeks later I heard Gett Off and Cream played on radio constantly. Fell in love with PR and liked both songs from Diamond & Pearl album. Thats when I became a big fan.
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In the living room of my parents house. I was 6 and saw the video for the "Little Red Corvette"

i was 13 years old and i was in the living room and a commercial for purple rain came on and i heard 'let's go crazy' for the very first time. i went freakin' NUTS. never been the same since.

nurse said:

Well - this was a gradual thing - but I think I was meant to be a fan - My dad gave me 'Purple Rain' - my mate was into Prince already so every time I went to hers the album was playing so I was sat in my Maths class at around 13 - 14 and I was thinking/daydreming - about him and it was then I decided It was no way back and I loved 'Take me with you' sooooo much --- I had to be a fan...

wendyrachel said:

same here - i saw him on tv doing "i wanna be your lover" when i was 10, and i thought he was really freakishly cool, then i saw him in rolling stone when i was about 12 and thought he looked amazing...but hearing 'let's go crazy' for the first time put me over the top.

[made up story like] it was the summer of 75 and Miss. Berrnie was baby sitting me . and she always said "stay out of the basement" well one day she had to go to store so she told her son Andre to keep an eye on me... he said "momma skipper and morris are commin over to jam" she said "well give em some peanut butter and he can sit down there and have lunch" and she left... then all i remember is they played some music... [/big fat lie]

SlamGlam said:

ok...

Anx said:

yeah, it was a gradual thing for me too. the very first time i remember seeing/hearing prince was when i was about 7 years old; i saw the "u got the look" video on friday night videos (yeah, lil' ol' me was allowed to stay up that late on weekends and i always watched the show). i liked the song, but didn't think much else of it.

then around the same time lovesexy came out, i remember going to a record store called music circuit, and seeing a few copies of the album sitting up on wall shelves behind the counter. i remember looking at the album cover and thinking, "wow!"

then, when i was 9 years old i saw the video for "kiss"...i fell in love with the song. all of this, and prince didn't totally kick my ass till i was 14.

wendyrachel said:

yeah yeah... i ued to call him uncle skipper....yeah yeah thats the ticket

SlamGlam said:

stoppit!