Since 1979...what is that...about 28 years now.

Sweet young & innocent me has only been a fan from 1978/9.
LOL i was buying his singles not actually knowing who the guy was, just that i liked his music when i heard it on my local radio. (Downtown Radio) in Belfast.
Live4Love_Love2Live ____Pajoe

October 2004

For 29 spectactular and fabulous years and counting!! 'Til death do us part!

23 years - I remember the act of droppin' the needle of my 45" portable record player onto the B-side of "Let's Go Crazy" which became, IMHO, the greatest song of all time ---- EROTIC CITY. I was 12...




Been funkin' ever since...

Like I said before, I have this theory that my mother was listening to Prince on headphones while I was resting in her womb.


In other words, all my life.

Funny u should mention that. My son is now 12 yrs old & a fan since b4 he was born as well LOL believe it or not.
My wife used 2 play TMBGITW cd lots b4 he was born & when he got uptight or cried, we would play him that song as it was the only thing that would pacify him (awww).
He will b there at the O2 for his 1st live Prince gig !!!
Peace_&_B_Wild_____Pajoe

Pajoe said:

Way to go Pajoe!! Now that's what I call 1st class parenting... that's not a joke!

Liked him since 1994

Loved him since 2000

Since 1979 LP & the song ...I wanna be your lover (first time i heard it,thought it was jermaine jackson's tune

25 years. Since I was 13. He hit me like a ton of bricks.

Only 16 years, I knew of him since 1984 with Purple Rain, but that is still more than half my life. I first went gaga over the video to cream in late 1991 as I was at the age where I still saw sex as something to be laughed at in secret, and here's Mr Prince dancing a mock orgy on stage with 50 scantily clad woman to a song that could be easily interpreted as the act itself. Within hours I was drawing pictures of him holding a guitar over his privates going "Cream" and it was my new favourite statement and actually REALLY started digging his music too. By Christmas I had the Cream, Gett Off, Thieves in Temple and Insatiable on Cassingles and a cherished CD copy of Diamonds and Pearls. By 1992 I had read several books and had most of his output to then and bought SYMBOL on its release date (October 16 1992 in New Zealand I think) and remember Sexy MF being on the news because of the lyrics.

24 years and counting & I still get tingles every time a new album comes out, what a ride.

When I heard "I wanna b yrlover" circa 1980 approx 27yrs! ahh the great memories, it has been a wild ride! Thank you Prince - here's to many more!

I liked the Purple Rain album when my dad bought it. It was probably 1985 before I started listening to it all the way through, and I loved it.

Couldn't really say I was a fan (buying all his back catalogue and current material with my own money) until 1993 because that's when I left school and got my first job.

So, 14 years if I'm being strict about the word fan. 22 years if you class a fan as someone who loves 1 album.

7 years if you count being obsessive about collecting rare and bootleg stuff.

Since 1984 so that's 23 years! Dayuum!

I love Soft and Wet, Sexy Dancer, and Still Waiting...but it wasn't until Dirty Mind that I totally knew I was hooked...My mom was not having it (8th grade), so I was a closet fan. By my sophomore year it grew into a guilty pleasure and after my first concert in 1983 with the bed on stage, Prince took on a whole new level....It's all a blur after that and I know I'll be a Prince fan 4ever...

Thanks P

wlcm2thdwn said:

old crusty tail, dayum! jk

WHO is that guy with no shirt and all that beautiful hair?????




soft and wet...hmmmm, that ain't disco!

Since 1998! I was one of those people who were really into that NPG stuff Prince was doing.

1978 - I got teased alot by my friends back in the day. Those same friends are now also die-hard fans.

I stopped keeping track when I passed the 12 yr. mark.

Coming from a simple, backwoods,southern-based hillfolk background, my education concluded somewhere near the end of the first grade.
So as of now,
that as far as I can count up to.
And that's using my all my severly inbred fingers and toes.

Illustrator said:

....y'all.

Since 1981,26 years but knew of him for his whole run
[Edited 8/7/07 20:35pm]

26 years-since I was 9

ya Prince

5 years

1978 - Soft and Wet opened the door...

And I was like
My mom was like

And when Dirty Mind came to be, my mother was like

but it was too late. I was and turned out!

i got my mam to buy me SEXY M.F in 92 . but werent really a fan then . was just a kid who thought it was cool cos it had swearing in it lol .. it was when i heard PEACH on the radio in 93 . that i thought i love that song i wanna get it . didnt know it was prince . but soon found out .. then CONTROVERSY was re-released as a single over here in the UK . i saw it on tv an got it . an then THE HITS 1 an THE HITS 2 for xmas 93 .. then the rest is history . i knew pretty soon after hearing them albums that i had to get every album/video/film b-side bootleg that this guy had ever put out an thats what i did . an thats what i done since . Princes music does that too alot people . he is addictive an grabbed me as a 13year old an had a hold on me since .. i loved the whole madness of the era aswell.i went to see him 1st time in concert in 95 .an just remember thinking about the gig 4 like a week after . an set off to school .but didnt bother going .just walked the streets on a high .. i remember GOLD was the last song played an it stuck in my head all the way home . i think everyone there realised that was a special song .. i didnt hear it on record til THE GOLD EXPERIENCE came out .. but it lived up to my expections an my memory of it .. lee

I've heard Prince's songs back in the early '80s with songs like Controversy, 1999, Little Red Corvette (when I was in grade school). By the time I heard When Doves Cry before the Purple Rain movie came out, I've become a Prince fan...for life!!