I remember a TV-show recorded and aired in my homecountry, The Netherlands, in 1999: The "TV-show" presented by Ivo Niehe.

He was promoting his CD 'Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic' with one of the most awkard and annoying interviews I have ever seen. He did let Larry Graham talk for him most of the time, like he had no mind of his own. And the presenter, Ivo Niehe, usually a very heel-licking, slimey guy, seemed to realise Prince was talking out of his ass during this interview. He was provoking and daring Prince a bit, and it made Prince look like a fool. A person totally out of touch with reality.

The interview was allready painfull to see, and it did get emphasised even more by Princes performance: he was lypsinching The Greatest Romance while Larry was putting on his big smile while pretending to playing to the bass-guitar.
Ugly, fake, detached, annoying.... Prince at his low point.

vivid said:

Agreed, also TMBGITW - Soul Train '94

It sounds like 1997, was not a good year for him television wise

Ill add another,it was sum kind awards show,back in 99 or 2000 when he got on stage 2 accept a award and the whole celeb audience got on their feet and stood 4 him and Prince gave a long speech,he was saying stuff like You are a blessed people and ect. What made me laugh was that while Prince was talking,the camera shows the rapper Xibit laughing at Prince.

razord said:

That's 2 different shows - Saturday Show was the whispering and he performed Billy Jack Bitch

The White Room - was count the days and Get Wild



One of the worst was Baby Knows on TFI Friday.... Chris Evans the presenter had, a few years previously, had an invitation to the Emancipation Gig revoked after he made a joke about Prince on the radio. Years pass, Evans has his own show and Prince needs promotion....cue a poor performance by a guy who doesn't want to be there and a presenter/host who doesn't want him there. Oddly enough this crap was put on NPGMC
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The greatest romance with playback and with Larry

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thedance said:

It wasn't vh-1...it was the Essence Awards

The worst was Prince w/ Larry singing "Baby Knows" on CBS 'The Early Show'....Bad. You could tell it was pre-recorded because Bryant Gumble has on a different suit, but they played it off like it was 7:00 in the morning. After they sang (the horrible) song Prince gasp like was tired and said "man, it's early". Plus, Prince had that long haid....bad, bad, bad

prime said:

ha ha.

TFI Friday did similar here to censor an artist reknowned for swearing. They pre-recited an inreview with him so they could edit the swearing and were going to put it out with the rest of the live show and pretend it was "live" and then got him back to the live show a few days later to perform his set.

It was excellent idea apart from one thing.....

He sits down,scraggly brown hair, does his "live" interview, gets up and walks through the door to the performance area....and comes out the otherside with completely different clothes and cropped bleached hair. On top of that he just replaced most of the lyrics with a string of swearwords


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purpledoveuk said:

I would agree with the ones with Larry or the lip-sync ones altho I do like the P Control performance with Mayte

I liked the BET awards, was nice to see him and Stevie onstage together, didn't like the turtleneck tho.

squirrelgrease said:

Yep