ive been a fan since the mid eighties,

Summer 2008

since "1999", in feb. 1983.

http://prince.org/msg/7/304613


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I've answered this a few times before:

Somewhere around the "Sign O' the Times" album is when I'd call myself a "fan". I love that record!
Although I liked a couple of things here and there throughout jr. high school and high school (early 80s), I wasn't "feeling" him until college, where I lived with a roommate who played him night and day. I started to hear things that weren't on the radio (she was a "collector" when they were on cassette), and was like "Wow!"

I first saw him live in '96, and that sealed it! There was no turning back.

lisap said:

i became a fan after a trip in my last year at school, i heard purple rain, and darling niki and i was hooked

thedance said:

has it been 3 years since london already, still seams like yesterday, and yes it was amazing

lisap said:

I was a senior in high school when PR came out, but I didn't see it in a theater until last year.

since my cooler broke

I got hooked when I saw the Cream video around 1992, it sounded so different from all the other hits at the time. I was about 14 years old when it happened.

My father first made me aware of Prince when the Purple Rain lp came out...By playing it at mega volume,when i was about 10 years old. I didnt buy my first Prince record thow untill 1986 ('Kiss' shaped picture disc)

When my mother snatched the Prince album out of my hand and stated " You can't listen to this album with this naked guy on the back cover" It was on like POPCORN since then!
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1978

since 1984.....and its starting to get a bit frustrating.....

Since 1991

too long [since 83] am now weary, need a rest!

Since before the serpent told me to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

1979

Since i was born,it was the summer of 89 when my dad bought the Batman soundtrack and my mom was pregnant with me,and my dad was already a fan of Prince. So my earliest memory is me at 4 years old and riding in the car with my dad and begging him 2 rewind PARTYMAN over and over,then he introduced me to Purple rain movie and syracuse live. So i had to have them all,i eventually became obsessed by him. Here i was at 6 and 8 years old in school and drawing pictures of Prince (still have them btw). So i remained a fan until 98 when i got the NPS cd and i thought it was terrible at the time and he wasnt on the radio and i was tired on getting picked on 4 liking him. 6 years went by,and it was 2004 and i saw Musicology in wal mart and i almost didnt get it,but i got it anyway and thought it was just ok,so then i pulled out my old albums and i understood them now that i was older,then in 2006 he released in my opinion a great CD,and its been great since.

1979

I first remember seeing Prince when the Little Red Corvette video was playing on MTV. I was just a little kid. 6 years old. I think I only remember it because my older cousin told me "That guys name is Prince, and he has sex with the girls in his band ON STAGE!!!" Of course this wasn't true, but I was 6, so I totally bought it. This pretty much exploded my brain since I barely even had any idea what sex was at the time. The following year the same cousin bought Purple Rain on vinyl and we listened to it day after day after day. There are still home videos of me as a little kid learning to breakdance while listening to that record floating around somewhere... Anyway, I fell in love with Prince's music about that time.

Since Cubans been cookin Black Beans and Rice

1996

Off and on. Really becoming intrested ( buying music) it would be 1997.

Been hooked ever since I bought TGE album back in 95`, so for about 15 years... WOAH! Time sure does fly!

since 2003 some of my best memories was going to a club and the dj loved to play prince!

1979

I was a senior that year also. "Purple Rain" came out the summer before my senior year....

We're the baddest class alive. We're the class of 85!

It made for a hell of a senior year. We went out with a bang!

RUDEGIRL since 81

vainandy said:

25 years...

And we're still hot.