Ya'll know the scene where Fink and Mark are walking out of the dressing room and Bobby is standing at the door and he asks Prince "What difference does it make man? We're still a band right?" If u have the film on dvd, pause it at 28:22. At the right of Bobby, u will see a picture of John Lennon hanging on the wall. Gives new meaning to P's llyric in the song Purple Rain. Which he lifted from a lyric of John Lennon's "Woman"

Woman
"I never meant to cause you any sorrow or pain"
Sounds familiar doesn't it? Anyway, anybody ever notice Lennon's picture in this scene? P also has a picture of Lennon's face in a statue in the center of Sign Of The Times album cover.

blackguitaristz said:

But there are people who want to believe that The Beatles had no influence on Prince.

viewaskew said:

Well, I was one to post otherwise. The Beatles influence can clearly be seen in P's work. There are many examples of this. Some I have gave on this site more than once. But let's stay on track...Had anyone ever noticed John's picture in this scene? Gotta know where to look, but if u do, u can't miss it.

viewaskew said:

What area out of your ass did you pull that out of??? Whoever said that Prince wasn't influenced by The Beatles???

Actually, the lyric to Lennon's "Woman" is
"I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain". he didn't use the word "any" like P did. But of course, u get the picture. No pun intended.

Paris9748430 said:

hey hey hey! Be cool everybody...Be cool....he's refering to a thread awhile back on The Beatles influence in P's music. There were some who said there wasn't any. That's what he's talking about.

Paris9748430 said:

You really are clueless. There have been about half a dozen threads of people debating that ON THIS SITE in the last couple of weeks. Do you need to be spoonfed everything?

And anyway, toss pots aside, I noticed that scene, although I'd never looked that closely at the SOTT album cover. The Beatles can be heard in Prince's music at least as far back as a song like When You Were Mine.

I can see folks getting up from their computers running over to the t.v. and popping in the dvd, zooming to this scene. "That fucking blackguitaristz...he's always coming up with different shit!...That fucker...".

viewaskew said:

Yep. Check out the cover...Lennon's there. His face actually looks like it's part of a tombstone. The flowers around the drums are very similar in theme to the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Same concept. The bass drum and of course the flowers that spell out "Beatles".

viewaskew said:

Actually, P has said that he wrote When You Were Mine the night John was murdered.

blackguitaristz said:

The tombstone with Lennon's face in it on Signs also ties in with the rumour that on the cover of Sgt Pepper, everyone is standing over a grave. Paul's grave actually. U know, the famous Paul Is Dead rumour and John saying "I Buried Paul" at the end of Strawberry Fields Forever. But I don't want to get off track.

I didn't notice that scene. I'll check it out when I get the chance.

viewaskew said:

Guilty!!!!!

Paris9748430 said:

Even I heard this awhile back that he was. And BG has a very good point the lyrics are VERY simuliar. I agree with him completely. I even remember this topic being brought up as well.But that is all I remember of it. I will have to go check out a cover of SOTT. Interesting about the cover
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blackguitaristz said:

Damn, you're right. This tidbit is too profound.

blackguitaristz said:

leave blackguitaristz alone...

Paris9748430 said:

And you call yourself a Prince fan? Ha!

Tame said:

I agree Tame

viewaskew said:

You know I can watch other movies over and over (not just a Prince movie) and notice new things in them each time. Even now I do that.
Lets try and not be so negative.

viewaskew said:

I do remember at one point long time ago it was rumoured(dont know if it was true or not) that Prince was wanting to BUY the Beatles works/songs.If anyone can clarify that Id appreciate it.

Yeah B I remember seeing that too. (lol) I wondered if he intentionally put that up there or was it part of the scenery at First Ave?

SPYZFAN1 said:

You never know. There's always more to it then meets the eye.

toots said:

I could say the same about others being so positive. There's a disconnect from reality that I'd prefer to avoid.

"Woman
"I never meant to cause you any sorrow or pain"
Sounds familiar doesn't it? Anyway, anybody ever notice Lennon's picture in this scene? P also has a picture of Lennon's face in a statue in the center of Sign Of The Times album cover."

That is really reaching dude. The PR fits the story line of the moving. Since P was causing sorrow and paid by smacking Appolina around.
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blackguitaristz said:

viewaskew said:

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Nobody thinks that the Beatles had no influence on Prince. (ATWIAD is more than enough evidence.

toots said:

viewaskew said:

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"There's a disconnect from reality that I'd prefer to avoid."
Than avoid the positivity by ignoring the positive post and not commenting.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Nah, the director said that everything u saw was put up by the set designer. They didn't want anything from First Ave, such as pictures, advertisements, etc. The dressing rooms, the hallway, were either built or totally redocorated. In many cases, sets were built. So the Lennon picture was definately added in the dressing room.

blackguitaristz said:

So, the pictorial reference to John may have been coincidental or was it.