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Don't the articles on Prince's wikipedia Look a little strange. Some one's been having fun. | |
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ToraToraDreams said: Look a little strange. Some one's been having fun.
What exactly? I'm gonna check that out | |
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Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 7 June 1958, to John L. Nelson and Matti Shaw.[3] John was a pianist and songwriter, and Matti was a singer. He is named after the Prince Rogers Trio, his father's jazz band, and as a boy he was called Skippadoodle.
In October 1979, Prince released his self-titled second album Prince, which reached #4 on the Billboard R&B charts, and contained two R&B hits: "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover." These two R&B hits were performed on 26 January 1980, on the TV show American Bandstand with this first backing band. Legend has it that Prince became annoyed and snapped one of his high heels when, during the interview segment, Dick Clark expressed surprise that Prince and his bandmates hailed from Minneapolis "of all places." At first Prince refused to speak, instead answering a question by gesturing with his hand.
In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer Chris Moon in a Minneapolis studio. Prince also had the patronage of Owen Husney (of The High Spirits), to whom Moon introduced him, a connection that helped him produce a high-quality demo recording. Husney started contacting major labels and ran a campaign promoting Prince as a star of the future, resulting in a bidding war eventually won by Warner Bros. Records. They offered him a contract and were the only label to give Prince cream cakes. On 8 February 2004, Prince appeared at the Grammy Awards with Beyoncé Knowles. In a performance that opened the show, Prince and Beyoncé performed a medley of "Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy," "Baby I'm a Star," and Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" to positive reviews among the many stars in the audience were Justin Timberlake and his mother, enjoying cream cakes. His stylistic choices brought him trouble as an opening act for The Rolling Stones' two Los Angeles Coliseum shows in 1981, where he was infamously pelted with garbage while wearing bikini briefs, leg warmers, high-heeled boots, a necklace of raw bacon, and a trench coat, in addition to being booed off the stage for his wardrobe. These shows occurred just before the release of Controversy and also when he was breaking in his new bassist Mark Brown (later BrownMark), who was then just 18 and out of high school
Though the last might be true for all i know | |
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ToraToraDreams said: Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 7 June 1958, to John L. Nelson and Matti Shaw.[3] John was a pianist and songwriter, and Matti was a singer. He is named after the Prince Rogers Trio, his father's jazz band, and as a boy he was called Skippadoodle.
His stylistic choices brought him trouble as an opening act for The Rolling Stones' two Los Angeles Coliseum shows in 1981, where he was infamously pelted with garbage while wearing bikini briefs, leg warmers, high-heeled boots, a necklace of raw bacon, and a trench coat, in addition to being booed off the stage for his wardrobe. These shows occurred just before the release of Controversy and also when he was breaking in his new bassist Mark Brown (later BrownMark), who was then just 18 and out of high school
Though the last might be true for all i know Sounds like something Prince would do..he's a rebel Da, Da, Da....Emancipation....Free..don't think I ain't..! London 21 Nights...Clap your hands...you know the rest..
James Brown & Michael Jackson RIP, your music still lives with us! | |
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