Click here 2 c a nice summarization of Prince's chart positions & music releases in the 80's. Some other interestin music facts r there, too.
http://eightiesclub.tripo.../id240.htm

Fabulous! Thanx 4 sharing!

Wow, thanks!

wildgoldenhoney said:

That's pretty detailed as far as a time-line goes.

Is it accurate though? The article says that Prince quit school at 16 but I thought that he finished school?!? At least I thought I read that somewhere. And he was adopted by another family? Like legally?

And I've heard that name before, Jamie Starr, that's Prince too? And Vanity's name is Dee Dee Winters? I thought it was Denise Matthews?!

1999 was on the charts for 2 years? "Take Me With You" is a duet with Apollonia, didn't know that. Wendy and Lisa wrote "Mountains"?

He has 2 altar egos? One good (Camille) and one bad (Spooky Electric)?

Hah, they keep mentioning, "Prince changed his mind about this, or broke his rule about this...

[September 1988
"U Got The Look" wins Best Male Video and Best Stage Performance at the 5th Annual MTV Awards. Prince launches a 20-date US tour, his first in America in four years. This includes a benefit concert to establish a scholarship fund in the name of a 17-year-old killed when struck by an automobile while waiting in line for Prince concert tickets in Boston.] That was good of him, never heard about this, he's all heart! Shame on people saying mean things about him.

Ok, now I gotta read the album reviews. All these details are so interesing.

"Gotta Broken Heart" was from his first album?

I love the reviews, so far.

[ how could they say this? sorry Prince] "Despite the contrived visual sensationalism of the sleeve - which has him pouting in flasher ace, black stockings and bikini briefs - Prince is still a blessing in (bizarre) disguise."
New Musical Express

I have this Rolling Stone, but it's been a long time since I've read the article. I've got so much stuff just sittting in boxes and containers that I haven't gone through in years.

"Though Dirty Mind is an undeniably appositive title, the LP might just as accurately have been called Prince Confronts the Moral Majority: except for "Uptown," "Partyup" and the loping "Gotta Broken Heart Again," none of Dirty Mind could make it onto the most liberal radio-station playlists these days. In a time where Brooke Shields' blue-jeaned backside provokes howls of shock and calls for censorship from mature adults, Prince's sly wit -- intentionally coarse -- amounts to nothing less than an early, prescient call to arms against the elitist puritanism of the Reagan era."
Ken Tucker, Rolling Stone

Interesting insights to Prince early on.

wildgoldenhoney said:

You can check many of the 'facts' out at the Forum FAQ:

http://prince.org/msg/7/145050

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