1990 for me...ny brother was a fan, and dragged me to Wembley arena for the Nude Tour...I was amazed and proceded to return to Wembley arena 5 nights in a row...that's how it started folks!

...what really grabbed me was "A Question of U" live...wow!

1987 with Sign O' The Times !!!

I got into music when I was 12.There was so much great music on the radio.
When my dad bought a stereo in 85 I got my first tapes.Wham!was the first,that was exiting,but when I got Purple Rain,things were about 2 change 4eva!
I became addicted 2 the album,every song was amazing,not long after ATWIAD came out,I saved 4 that,even though that wasn't as amazing once I got 1999 there was no hope 4 me,this was a life long thing,theres just never been anyone as exciting as Prince,or as cool!
I just wished most others hadn't thought him 2 weird or sissy 2 b a fan of.

High,

1979? Whatever year dirty mind came out. I was loving the the look coz that look was me and of course the songs head, party up and sister. Then when contoversy came out well it was over for me. Prince had me hooked!

Liquid
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I became addicted in 1980-81 when i 1st heard "Controversy" and went out and brought the album and saw Dirty Mind and Prince on the shelf as well so i said what the hell and brought all 3.And i can say i havent regretted 1 cent that ive spent on P stuff. He gets betterwith age like a fine wine.P if you're reading this pleeeze come back and visit us starving fams in Australia.Any Aussie fams feel free 2 drop me a line.Hi 2 Diva if she reads this

About 1982, my brother had the 1999 album, I borrowed it and listened to it to death. I was 11. It wasn't until Purple Rain and the video for When Doves Cry that I became REALLY heavily into him.

I became a fan in '84 when Purple Rain came out. I was 8 at that time. And a fan ever since.

Oh yeah, Nep2nes and Diva.....call me.....
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I think it was 1984 when 'When doves cry' came out. And I was 12. My interest gradually increased from then. By 1986, I was well into him.

In 1984 after watching the movie. I was 13 .

I was convinced in 1980(The Dirty Mind Album)

But I didn't buy my first recording until 1983 (1999 on cassette tape).

My best friend and I used to get up early on Saturday mornings to watch American Bandstand and they played I Wanna Be Your Lover. I dont remeber how old I was but I am 32 now so I would say around 7, 8, or 9.

1984, @ 17 yrs
I remember when I went up @ 2 am to watch the PR show from Syracuse live on TV. Oh man, was that great! I had the sound down very low cause my mother was sleeping in the room next to the TV room, and I was completly blown away anyway!

Vagina said:

Same as me 82 i was 12 and i saw prince on MTV 1999
plus little red corvette... then delirious on radio...

1985. yee haa !

Nep2nes said:

yeah right.

Krieger said:

me too ! wow ! cool!

The day in 1978 that I heard Soft n Wet. Yeah, I am old school like that, boy

BLACKMF said:

Yup, uh huh, uh huh...

1985 wow!!! 13 yrs young When I was 8 Prince scared me I did not know what to make of him and I had Loyal issues at that time,,, I love M Jackson' sooo I felt I could not be into both of them at the same time so I had to let one of them go,, what you you do in my position

'84, Purple Rain the movie did it for me, I was only 9 yrs old then. So when I got older I started buying all of the albums from the previous years. So I would have everything he ever put out. And from that moment on I bought every album every year.

1982, when I was 16 or 17. Borrowed 1999 from a friend, loved it. Purple Rain came out and that was it! I then went back and got everything else. I'm from BFE Indiana, where Lynard Skynard is a hero, at least back then. Being a Prince was, and still is, an oddity around here. But I don't care. You can't account for taste.

NavahTheButterFly said:

That's funny. Michael Jackson scares my neice real bad. She has nightmares that he is coming to get her. I would think my nephew would be more scared!

I became a fan in late '82. I really liked 1999, but didn't buy any of the previous albums until 1984.

1982...
I am surprised that a lot off ppl in here became fan in the 9ties. thats cool. I thinking now...if i was around 12 now, would i get interrested in prince?

HellerHighwater said:

get out of here.

you are now 17 so you should have been - 7 back in 1978...

how was that?

Fall of '78!

I walked into this "wrecka stow" on East 79th Street on the Southside of Chicago and the first thing I saw was this huge wall sized poster of the "finest muh-fukka I'd seen in ages"! The 'fro was big and the face was... Damn!! I thought to myself, "who is that fine brotha right there?!!?"

I've loved him from the moment I heard that first scream!

84. Darling Nikki was the one.

it was 1979 I was 3 my dad is a musician he came home with a new album from a new artist ,he what to learn a new song for a wedding that he was play at that weekend . the 45 played over and over in my house the whole week it was " I wanna be u'r lover" . my mom has and old 8mm film of me and my dad I was sing into a hair brush and my dad was playing ... my mom says from that point on I was hook on this guy named prince . and i still have that record and 8mm film

It was the Lovesexy album for me... when I was about 17. This immediately made me buy his entire back catalogue. I would've loved to be in to it all during Purple Rain, ATWIAD, SOTT etc... I'd obviously heard the singles from these on the radio but they hadn't really grabbed me.

That's the thing with Prince though - generally you need to listen to an album as a whole to fully appreciate the brilliance of it. I missed that with the 1st year of NPGMC - listening to a song at a time from a download didn't work as well. It wasn't until I'd bought a PC with CD burner at the end of the year and arranged the tracks into groups that fitted together that I really appreciated how much good stuff had been made available.