Have you got any interesting prince facts if so post them here heres mine:

Prince once played ping pong with Michael Jackson. While prince was working in a studio in Los Angeles in 1986, Michael dropped by so say hello. Spotting a ping pong table nearby, Prince asked jackson if he wanted to play. When prince threatened to slam the ball, Jackson dropped his bat and put his hands infront of his face. Game Over. "Did you see that?" crowed prince afterwards."He played like (deaf blind campaigner) Hellen Keller!"

I believe Michael was protecting his newly smashed nose...

rolling said:

Ms.Roger Nelson was an EVIL cunt

Heres another couple: Prince is brilliant at bowling. According to ex sly and the family stone bassist, longtime friend and sometime bowling partner Larry Graham, "Hes an excellent bowler. He gets almost all strikes"

Prince saw deceased jazz legend Miles Davis Naked. Prince would visit Miles Davis at home and Davis would answer the door stark naked. "All of human history was on that body," says prince. "See that and you wouldnt want to eat for a week".

Where the hell are you finding this stuff at?

guarinigirl2000 said:

A book called Possesed:the rise and fall of prince

dyami12 said:

yep I know Im pretty sure this topic and the book was covered at one point

sources, people!!

Here's a little-known secret:

Did you know that Prince fired Wendy & Lisa because Ms. Melvoin insisted on calling Prince an embarrassing nickname. And Lisa would always break into gales of laughter.

The name in question is "Nerfie."

Apparently, the name originated from a time when a perm left Prince a little tender-headed. Nerf= soft and squishy.

Well, after years of her calling him "Shorty," Prince had had enough.

In 1986, Prince met up with Stevie Wonder on top of the lighthouse in Key West and Stevie dared him to record a handful of albums that year, but only release one. Then, he'd have to follow it up with a dark album that he wouldn't release until 7 years later, an album in which he'd appear naked on the cover, a soundtrack to a super-hero movie and then at some point he had to release an album via a national newspaper.

Prince took on the bet and won!

Stevie apparently said his prize would be that he could finally release a song called All The Midnights In The World; something Prince had been trying to perfect since 1982.

*source - Purplebullpaisleyfams.com

ThreadBare said:

CAT DADDY

I'm loving this

Here's something I'm sure that everybody's fimiliar with:

Chaka Khan damn near kicked Prince's ass when he called her sounding like Sly Stone and asking her to come to the studio in some rainy night.

When she found out that the cheesing lil' boy with the huge afro is the one who made the practical joke, it took the recording studio's engineers to keep her away from him coz she would've signed her name on his ass.

Of course, she came to love him later that evening and rooted for him to this day.

Snap said:

Mine are all from a prince article in q magazine!!!

The song Kiss is actually about a traumatic experience prince had a high school. Apparently prince was considered a geek at high school and his first girlfriend was also a geeky looking girl with glasses and bad teeth. Have you ever noticed how when prince kisses a girl in his films its all lips and never any tongue action. Well the reason for this is one day he was french kissing his geeky girlfriend and one of her teeth fell out and prince swallowed it. A few days later he pooed it out and he noticed it had turned into the shape of a symbol the same symbol he would later go by.
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rolling said:

Okaaaay!

I NEED the source for that one

Snap said:

agreed now... cause stuff is getting weird in the thread now

Flowerz said:

Mine is from..

Another story you won't find in any of those supposedly well-sourced Prince biographies. I get the real dirt!!! I'd put CJ out of business, were I so inclined.


Prince always has a Plan B. Folks don't understand. The man is always prepared.

When he won an Oscar for the Purple Rain score, he wanted to make the right fashion impression with something he knew no other dude would be wearing that night.

What folks don't realize, though, is that the black sequinned and hooded shroud/cape thing he went in was Plan B.


He wore that, actually, on top of Plan A, planning to strut onstage in the real get-up if he won. He changed his mind, at the last moment, when he recalled that he'd claimed in his bogus publicity that he was Italian, not Scottish.

^^^

Caaaaawttaaaaaymn

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rolling said:

Rolling? Are you male or female? I hope you're the latter cuz uh,...any dude that pays ANY attention to how Prince kisses in his movies is uh....creepy.

blackguitaristz said:

ThreadBare said:

What?! Nah player.... I know that Lisa seemed to "change" towards Prince as soon as Wendy joined the group but I can't see Lisa laughing at something Wendy would say regarding Prince to Prince's face all the time. I heard that Wendy used to take liberties at fucking with Prince more than the others. Like trying to clown him in front of the rest of the band. Or telling him when something he wrote sounded like "shit". I KNOW Prince wasn't down for all that. I think Lisa and Bobby would have told her she should knock that shit off. I think more than the others, it was Wendy who got caught up. I don't really think in his heart, Prince wanted to fire Lisa. Also, I don't think Lisa would have quit if it wasn't for Wendy about to break Lisa's arm dragging her to go with her.

luv4u said:

If you're straight, then it's creepy.

blackguitaristz said:

Wendy was the only one who wasn't caught in the "pussy control" bullshit he ruled with(along with the fellas).

I gotta give her that credit,,,,lord knows, I HATE giving Revolutions credit more than what they already get(esp in here) but I'll give her THAT credit at least.
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Harlepolis said:

Nah...Lisa wasn't caught up in the pussy control either. And this was before Wendy ever joined the group. Lisa held her own being the only woman in the band. I think Lisa was waaaay more cooler than Wendy was. I think Prince respected Lisa as well as the other guys in the band.

blackguitaristz said:

Male, straight and according to you creepy.
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rolling said:

I can dig it. And let me use this airtime to clarify myself. I wasn't saying that you were creppy perse' as much as I was saying that any straight cat that studies how Prince busts slob in his films, that in itself, is a creepy thing.

Last one, and I'm hittin' the hay.

I'm about to blow the lid off one of the deepest, darkest stories in Prince's storied past. It all started in early 1983, on a Saturday evening.

A lot of you oldheads remember the Prince spaghetti sauce scandal from the 1980s, when Prince sicced his lawyers on the company for using his likeness in their commercials during the Purple Rain madness. Everyone was trying to cash in on his association, and the food company was no different. Thing is, people don't realize the real reason Prince sued them.

Wasn't so much about his likeness being used without permission in 1984 or 1985. No, the real reason Prince HATES Prince Pasta to this day precedes those commercials by at least a year, to early 1983.

One Saturday evening that year, Prince was cooking with Prince spaghetti sauce. Some of it spattered from the frying pan into an open-flame burner on his stove. The grease from his tangled hairdo acted as an accelerant for the kitchen blaze. A lot of his hair was lost in the mishap.

Folks have often wondered for years why 1983 was one year that a crazily prolific artist such as P fell off the scene. Now you know: Brotha was recuperating and being fitted for special wigs and whatnot. Don't believe me, do you? You think this is all some silly, lame satire.

Check it out. Here's the proof:

Prince went from 1999's weird, stringy mess



to



super-coiffed and primped in Purple Rain. How? Better hair dresser? No. Wigs.

He's been consistently wearing wigs since Purple Rain. Doesn't make him any less a superstar or musician. He's still a legend.



But, to this day, he will not set foot in an Olive Garden or Carrabba's, for fear that someone will try to slip him some Prince tomato sauce and the memories will come flooding back. To distance himself even more from that, he's become a vegan, in recent years.

So, anyway, when he saw the same company using his likeness after the movie was released, Prince lost it. Everyone thought it was about him and his ego. But it was deeper than that. A lot deeper.

I can't believe Per Nielsen's never included this story in his exhaustive writings. Or CJ and her comical gossip. Oh, well.

rolling said:

That made me laugh out loud. hilarious.