okay... for the record ... Madonna had a contract with pepsi that was soon 2 be alienated because of her controversey video for like a Prayer, Micheal Jackson had a deal with pepsi twice, I don't think nobody could ever forget ... burning hair , Even Hammer had a deal with pepsi sometime in the early nighties but what I can't figure out is why in the hell Prince has never had a deal with pepsi... it would've beent the coolest thing in the world. I would've had it on tape for sure. If Prince ever had a deal with Pepsi, it would've been known as one of the sexiest beverage 2 drink, for get coca cola. Anways, does anybody know why this deal was never made?

Prince doesnt need a soft drink 2 make him cool. He already is. I think its cooler not 2 sell Urself 2 a label and 2 be cool for the person U R.

DigitalLisa said:

Perhaps he said no. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing he would do.

DigitalLisa said:

I,m pretty sure he has had a deal with Pepsi when they gave sponsorship for the Act II tour.

I was just thinking at the height of his commercial days, it seem like it would've been a cool deal... especailly around the time when raspeberry baret became a single... i can really see it, the pepsi commercial would've been like that cartoon prt of the video, wendy and lisa playing there insturments along with the band, prince riding his motor cyle with a pepsi in his hand. then the music of raspeberret plays in the background. I think it would've been cool.


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langebleu said:

I thought this was with Coke. I would say sponsership and commercials are certainly different kind of deals though.

But everyone knows that Prince orignially turned down a huge contract to do Coke commercials right when Michael had signed with Pepsi.

'Pepsi' sponsored his Jam Of The Year Tour in Detroit at the Pine Knob in 1997..it reads on my ticket

Pepsi Presents Prince 'Jam Of The Year- World Tour'

Pepsi was also at this concert!


Nothing big was made out of it, thou the concert was a rip roaring success!

who gives a flyin rat's ass who's sponsorin what? i still drink pepsi, regardless.

DigitalLisa said:

Because Prince wasn't a corporate whore sellout. Well, at least back then.

Prince has had sponsorship on his tours from corporations like Pepsi. They help to underwrite the cost of the tour (all that equipment and travel get expensive) and receive publicity and usually a cut of the box office in return.

Prince has not, to my knowledge, ever served as spokesperson for or endorsed a product. He does not even do endorsements for musical instruments and equipment he uses on stage and in studio and hasn't even discussed the gear he uses in interviews very much. I'm sure he's had plenty of offers and opportunity, but has apparently chosen not to accept for his own reasons.

I remember him mentioning in an interview that the Prince spaghetti company did an ad with a little jar of spaghetti sauce dancing around on a stage with a purple trench coat on. He thought it was kinda cute, but they never purchased rights to do it and his lawyers made them yank it from ciculation.

I have to say that I'm glad he hasn't done something like a Pepsi commercial. But can you think of products he would be a good fit for?

Maybe Trojan condoms?

didn't Prince write a jingle for Pepsi (You got the right one baby) that Ray Charles sang?

HalluRain said:

There was the Chevy commercials from this year where Prince let them use the footage of him singing Little Red Corvette from Sign O' the Times. So he has endorsed Chevrolet.

FirstAvenue said:

There is controversy, but I believe that he wrote this song AFTER the commercial came out just using the refrain as the song is different.

I never saw the Chevy commercials. That's interesting. I wonder, though, if he approved that since the masters would belong to Warner? Or do they only own the studio master tape and not the concert footage?

HalluRain said:

It was discussed in detail when the commercials starting airing , but Warners does not own the Sign O' the Times movie. WB didn't want it so the distribution rights are owned by Odeon and Universal has the Home Video rights. Check your box and you won't see Warner Brothers anywhere on it.



Prince definately gave his okay on this one as he asked people what they thought about him doing it.

lovemachine said:

Huh. Well, there's a first for everything! :LOL:

lovemachine said:

Just to clarify, Lovemachine.

You are right about the Act II tour - it was Coce-Cola, not Pepsi. Uptown also reports in Turn It Up 2.0 of a song called Coca-Cola having been filed at the Libarry of Congress which it had been assumed was composed as a potential tie in with a deal, but there is no verification of this specific commercial link.

I think you are correct about the Diet Pepsi commercial emerging first and Prince incorporating the Ray Charles chorus in his own composition, 'Uh Huh.'