Let's share pics, memories, first impressions, etc. On both the movie and album.

My first impression of "Purple Rain" was "Is that a scary movie?"

My memories of the album is thinking about how much the music fit the movie.

& being scared as hell the first time I heard the backmasking on "Darling Nikki" with the lights off!

I would put up pictures, but can't figure out how! (newcomer)

Purple Rain the movie began as as the start of a concert film from Controversy calle the 2nd Coming, from there in Prince's famous purple notebook he began developing a movie called Dreams which Albert Magnoli title Purple Rain. the electricity of this era was magnified by the movie. What fans of Prince:For U-199 the Time & Vanity 6 understood about "Uptown" came to the big screen. And exciting time, the deleted scenes, the music, that intended music, the script with Vanity written in. the explicit scenes and the whole background including the infamous 1983 1st Avenue show that premiered live music that became the Purple Rain sound strack.Background myths and drama. Introducing the white cloud.

"We were all such babies, so hungry for success. With Purple Rain it
became a total family affair." JJ (Jill Jones)

P U R P L E R A I N

Screenplay
by
Albert Magnoli


Formerly Dreams by William Blinn

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BEFORE HE CREATED THE MUSIC, HE LIVED EVERY BIT OF IT

"To me, Prince and the Time's entire thing is visual. The microcosm they've developed 4 themselves was a movie begging to be made.

There's music. That means there's night, there's bars, there are alley's. All of a sudden, a story begins to emerge.

They're exaggerations or minimizations developed to fit a story that never happened, yet, in a strange way, a story that is their reality." - Albert Magnoli on Purple Rain

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yeahthatsthe1 said:

Let's share pics, memories, first impressions, etc. On both the movie and album.

My first impression of "Purple Rain" was "Is that a scary movie?"

My memories of the album is thinking about how much the music fit the movie.

& being scared as hell the first time I heard the backmasking on "Darling Nikki" with the lights off!

I would put up pictures, but can't figure out how! (newcomer)

I've always felt Prince's music to have a dark dangerous sexuality attached to it. Computer Blue Darlin Nikki (various songs from Dirty Mind Controversy & 1999) Erotic City even God the dance electric is dark and scary

The Purple Rain era:

What can you tell us about the overall vibe of Prince and the whole band on, the night you debuted the Purple Rain tracks at First Ave in Minneapolis? What do you remember of that day before the show and that night after this legendary performance? How nervous do you remember Wendy being before her first gig with the band that night?

We were so well rehearsed that any opening night jitters melted away after the first song was played. I think Wendy was more excited than nervous.

Tell us about your experience the day that Purple Rain premiered at Hollywood's Mann's Chinese Theater in California. What was going through your head seeing yourself on the big screen?

The whole thing was so surreal that day that the memory of it still seems like a dream. Seeing oneself on the big screen for the first time is also a dream come true. Of course, you hope that your complexion is looking OK on a close up.

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