I remember when I was ten years old, ready to watch purple rain for the first time!

LAWRD! when I saw prince... ...I tought I was gonna die! I tought he was SO hot! so the next day I just literallty flew to the wrecka stow and bought the purple rain album,, since then, I'm obsessed with this man!

HOPE U WOULD LIKE TO SHARE UR STORY!

I was in High School from 1981-1984 and music becomes really important at that stage of a teen's life. Party jams, background music while hanging out with friends and blasting tunes through cheap Kraco speakers in your first car. A big part of that High School soundtrack was the Dirty Mind album. Controversy helped propel my fascination of his music, especially When You Were Mine. Then I discovered that Vanity 6 and The Time were actually Prince behind the curtain and I started to collect everything funky tied to Minneapolis. I bought Exotic Storm because I was sure it had to be Prince related.

Then, once I dropped the needle on Little Red Corvette... I've been a lifer ever since. 1999s follow up Purple Rain blew me away, not because of it's huge success and excellent songs, but because my little secret was now a household name. Everyone had that cassette or LP. Even the meathead jocks on my team would blast Purple Rain in the locker room to get pumped up for wrestling matches.

omg u are like SO lucky to be trought all that. Cuz u see I'm only 16 years old and I've been a fan since I can remember. I'm like totally in my own world. I only listen to old music from the 60 - 80s. so I really envy the fact that u could live troguh the 80s and experience all that!

I was in high school from 82-85.

I was soooo not into Prince. I thought he was weird, and I was totally into Rick James and a few others. I hated "Little Red Corvette" and turned it every time it came on the radio.

Plus, in my school, the "popular, cool" people listened to Prince, and the rest of us were peons. (no lie! The "Mean Girls" all tried to dress like Vanity 6, and their male counterparts tried to look like The Time. )

Anyway...

When I got to college, I met KK who was into Prince and RJ. She was constantly trying to convince me that Prince was better, but I wasn't having it.

Then I moved in with Sammi in 1987-88. She was a rabid, annoying Prince fan. Back then she would have been starting bizarre threads in PM&M

BUT... she was collecting bootleg cassettes, so I started hearing things that weren't on the radio. All of a sudden I discovered how good Prince really was. I used to sneak and listen to her stuff when she wasn't home.

My first album was "Sign O' the Times". I've been hooked ever since. I went back and filled in all the stuff I was missing and collected from that point on.

My first concert was in 1993. I've seen him 25 more times since then, and have had experiences that were AMAZING.

Fast-forward to now:

- Both KK & Sammi have been married and have 3 kids each.

They tease me because neither one is really into Prince anymore, although they both still like him. They say they don't have time... (I'm still single )

- I didn't see "Purple Rain" in the theater until 2008, and I still hate "Little Red Corvette".

i became a fan in 1991, i was 13 years old. my dad was sitting in the living room watching purple rain on tv. the movie had been on for a little while. i saw prince and he caught my eye, i was curious, because up until that point i pretty much had ignored him. at that time i was a huge fan of new kids on the block. after seeing the movie i saw his "get off" video on mtv, and i was hooked! he was everything that new kids on the block wasn't, and i was ready to hear more! so i bought the "diamonds & pearls" album without my parents permission at the mall, and listened to it with ear phones for a while until they discovered i had bought it. been a fan every since.

chocolate1 said:

I was in high school from 82-85.

I was soooo not into Prince. I thought he was weird, and I was totally into Rick James and a few others. I hated "Little Red Corvette" and turned it every time it came on the radio.

Plus, in my school, the "popular, cool" people listened to Prince, and the rest of us were peons. (no lie! The "Mean Girls" all tried to dress like Vanity 6, and their male counterparts tried to look like The Time. )

Anyway...

When I got to college, I met KK who was into Prince and RJ. She was constantly trying to convince me that Prince was better, but I wasn't having it.

Then I moved in with Sammi in 1987-88. She was a rabid, annoying Prince fan. Back then she would have been starting bizarre threads in PM&M

BUT... she was collecting bootleg cassettes, so I started hearing things that weren't on the radio. All of a sudden I discovered how good Prince really was. I used to sneak and listen to her stuff when she wasn't home.

My first album was "Sign O' the Times". I've been hooked ever since. I went back and filled in all the stuff I was missing and collected from that point on.

My first concert was in 1993. I've seen him 25 more times since then, and have had experiences that were AMAZING.

Fast-forward to now:

- Both KK & Sammi have been married and have 3 kids each.

They tease me because neither one is really into Prince anymore, although they both still like him. They say they don't have time... (I'm still single )

- I didn't see "Purple Rain" in the theater until 2008, and I still hate "Little Red Corvette".

me too

From 84-85 i did all my school work in purple pen

i got into Prince big time when PR dropped...lets go crazy was the first single i ever purchased (by anyone) and after seeing PR at the cinemas, i begged mum for an advance on my pocket money so i could buy the album.

(i had always liked 1999/LRC and even controversy before that, but never associated Prince and the revolution as having a singer named Prince...i mean, wtf )

then ATWIAD was released, and ...cloud suit..that little cough...ahhhhh

hooked for life!

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Wrong forum. Moving to Prince: music & more forum

I was 12 years old. I lived in Duluth, MN.

There used to be these record and tape clubs. You'd send in a penny, and they'd send you 6 cassettes free. You were supposed to order more from them, but I was 12. So, I never did. That was 1984 the year that Purple Rain came out. The record club didn't have PR yet, so I ordered 1999 instead. It seemed like a letdown, cause I never really liked "Little Red Corvette" and all thought. That was 'pop' music to me. Even back then I really wanted the 'hard' stuff. All that summer I would go on walks down the beach carrying my boombox and listening to 1999. At first, I thought it was really strange. I wasn't as interested in the first side as I was the second side.

The songs that really got to me, we're Automatic and All the Critics Love You in New York. I just remember thinking it was so weird, and I thought the drums from 'Critics sounded really hard. I had never heard music like it. Even then it just seemed totally original to me. I had no idea how that music was made, or how he thought it up. I got really hooked. And I loved that guitar solo from Automatic. The whole record. when I finallly got Purple Rain I was super impressed by The Beautiful Ones. I was super-fan from then til now. ,,, I guess the third things that hooked me was the Syracuse show on videotape. I used to lose my fucking mind over Irresistible Bitch/Possessed. I thought the Revolution was the coolest thing ever. Still do.

the bass player of indie arie, khari simmons tuned me to prince.

i remember him being full of admiration and respect for prince

back in the 80's.

I grew up listening Prince's music. When Doves Cry was one of my jams when I was younger but I didn't become a fan-fan until I was a junior in high school. Musicology had just came out and I fell in love with Call My Name. I listened to it everyday on my way to school. Then 3121 came out the second half of my freshman year of college and Black Sweat was the alarm on my phone to wake me for classes. From then on, I've considered myself a fan. I went back and listened to his older stuff as an adult with older, keener ears and I love it. I'm kind of disappointed that my parents weren't into Prince because then I wouldn't have to scour used bookstores and eBay to look for the classics.

And this is my first post here. I've been lurking for a few months but finally decided to post today.

I was into The Time( after they broke up but I didn't know)and Morris Day around 1986 era. I had heard some Prince and liked his music but I was mostly a M Jackson and oldies fan(1950/1960).

Someone told me that Prince was behind The Time. This was around 1988. I was a big Batman fan as well. Of course Prince and Batman became the same thing in 1989 and the rest is history. I tried to buy or at least hear Prince's 10 year old catalog. I think the first Prince cassette I bought was Sign o the Times.

As of this posting I am still reading and wanting to hear/buy the new one 20ten.

s0crazee said:

I grew up listening Prince's music. When Doves Cry was one of my jams when I was younger but I didn't become a fan-fan until I was a junior in high school. Musicology had just came out and I fell in love with Call My Name. I listened to it everyday on my way to school. Then 3121 came out the second half of my freshman year of college and Black Sweat was the alarm on my phone to wake me for classes. From then on, I've considered myself a fan. I went back and listened to his older stuff as an adult with older, keener ears and I love it. I'm kind of disappointed that my parents weren't into Prince because then I wouldn't have to scour used bookstores and eBay to look for the classics.

And this is my first post here. I've been lurking for a few months but finally decided to post today.

Welcome to the Org. sOcrazee. Cool story.

I was about fifteen when I got Purple Rain on VHS and I must of watched it 20 times that first year. I discovered Led Zeppelin the next year and got lost in the world of classic rock and roll. I graduated in 1989, saw Nirvana in 1991 and continued attending rock shows for the next 9 years. I hate to admit it, but I lost all interest in Prince. I went to anywhere from 10 to 30 concerts a year and after hearing how great Prince was live I went to Las Vegas to see him for my 30th birthday. After realizing that he was the greatest performer I had ever seen, I had to purchase his entire catalogue and see him in concert many more times. So I guess I really became a fan after seeing him live.

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In 1987 I took a friend to Wembley Stadium to see Michael Jackson. He didn't particularly like MJ, but said he would come for the experience.

A year later, 25th July 1988, he asked me to go out with him one evening. He told me we were going to a concert, but I had no idea who it was. We went to Wembley Arena and I saw that Prince was playing. I remember saying, I don't really like his stuff, I didn't really know hardly anything.

It was the Lovesexy tour and when Prince came on stage, I was totally mesmerised ... he was electrifying. The concert was a showcase of awesome talent.

When I got home, I phone my best friend and told her how amazing the experince had been. I remember going up to town the next day and buying about 5 Prince albums just to get me started. My best friend agreed to go to Wembley with me the following night and we got tickets from touts. We ended up going a further 3 times that week. She and I are now Prince buddies and have been to many many concerts together and have had many Prince nights at home, watching video's and DVD's with a bottle of wine, pringles and dips and share a real appreciation of Prince's music.

This one started it all for me back in 1999/2000....

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For both artists; Chaka & Prince. I just graduated from high school and at that point I was living with a friend, she bought this album because she's a fan of Chaka, however she was disappointed with it,,,not me, her voice struck a nerve, and Prince' production(and his background vocals in "Drama") really made me intrigued to persue his music.

Later & Picked up "Epiphany", "Rave" and "Hits/B-Sides" and the flood gate opened after that.

In 1984, when hearing "When Doves Cry", I really noticed Prince for the first time. Later on, I realized I had heard 1999 on the radio earlier and liked it, but did not know it was Prince who sang it. But I really became a fan in 1984 after hearing "When you were mine" being played in a record store... that song really grabbed me. I've been a hardcore fan ever since (even during the "bad years" 1993-2000)....

Of course I have always known about Prince but the year I acutually became a fan was in May 2004 when he did an unplugged show to promote his musicology album on MTV. I remember he started playing around with the audiance and then he began singing little bits of old songs like I could never take the place of your man, then he asked the audiance "remember that that from high school?" and they all cherred. He then said "Well this is what I remember from high school" Then he started singing Sweet Thing by Chaka Khan, he just blew me away with his voice, the guitar, everything. Unfortunately he turned the mike around for the audiance to sing the rest of the song but I was already sold - there was no going back from that moment. Through out the whole week that one line he sang of Sweet Thing was just going through my mind. I think HMV made a fortune that summer from all the Prince CD's and DvD's I bought.

I was 16 years old and living in Germany when I heard my first Prince song on an American radio station and I didn't even get the artist's name because my English wasn't all that great and the sound quality of the radio station was so bad. But somehow I was captured by the song and went to every store in town to find the record without success. Not knowing the artist's name or the song title didn't make my search easier.

After humming the song to a friend who worked in a record store that didn't sell mainstream music, I finally got lucky; he had listened to the same American radio station and was able to recognize the song and he also told me that the singer's name was 'Prince". Unfortunately he also informed me that there were no Prince records in Germany available at that time since Prince was considered a "newcomer" in the States.

I kept pestering my friend to put his connections to the test and finally he had it arranged that a copy of the record was sent to me from the States by snail mail. I had to wait for the record for almost 4 weeks and to my disappointment it arrived in a blank cover with no picture of the artist and I thought that "Prince" was a pretty arrogant stage name.

Anyways, I was now probably the first German Prince fan and proud Prince record owner.

I didn't have to wait much longer to see a picture of Prince and to find out that 'Prince' was his real name. After 'little red corvette' and '1999' Prince had now fans all over Europe.

He wasn't however considered mainstream in Europe until "When doves cry" and "Purple Rain". After Purple Rain all hell broke loose and Prince became a mega star and household name.

The rest is music history.

After all these years I still love Prince. No other artist has kept my interest for this long. Prince's music and enigmatic personality fascinates me to this day.

I knew who Prince was from MTV and radio, but at the time had never even thought about buying any of his music. Then I went to see Purple Rain the night it came out. We got there early and they played the whole soundtrack in the theater before the movie started. The person I went with bought the soundtrack and told me they would give it to me the next week. I couldn't wait that long, between that and watching the movie, I couldn't get the music out of my head so I bought my own copy rather than wait a couple more days. I've been hooked ever since.

Alafia said:

It was late 1979 or early 1980 when my mother was talking about a song she had heard over a friend's house.She said it was called "Still Waiting".A week or so later,I come home from school and she has the 'Prince' album and is playing this song over and over and over I've been a fan ever since.

I became a fan this year hehe

I was really more into Michael Jackson

Then heard about the "bad" song and why Prince didn'tw nat t o do it

For the most aprt I thought he was weird as hell

But I started talking baout himmore looking up about him and all that nice

stuff and now I'm a fan

I also thought he was weir dbut hot as hell too haha

Mine was the Purple Rain movie, I can remember going to see it twice at the movies...I was in the 11th grade and already had seen various artist in concert, mostly rock so in 1988 a friend out of the blue says lets go see Prince, thanks to him I am this fan. After the Lovesexy show, I was a new person with a new perspective of how live music should sound. I purchased or obtained all previous albums and just jammed and still jamming after all these years....peace and love

It was 1984. I was 7 years old and moving back to Indiana from a two year stay in Oklahoma. That summer we lived with my aunt. My aunt and uncle and cousins were big fans of MTV, something I had not seen in Oklahoma yet. Those evenings I would see new videos by Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Duran Duran Duran, and two new videos that caught me right away..first "When Doves Cry".. then soon "Let's Go Crazy". I was buying my first 45s back then and I quickly bought both of these along with others by Duran Duran (Wild Boys), Cyndi Lauper (She Bop), Tina Turner (Better Be Good To Me) and soon many others. What struck me was that the b-sides were cool songs also as opposed to many of my other 45s. I remember then getting the "Purple Rain" 45.. and being wowed by the purple vinyl and see thru sleeve. At the time i hadnt realized how long the full song was. I though "God" was a very weird and scary sounding song. The "I Would Die 4 U" followed.

At that time I was in 2nd grade. I would give my mom a list of 45s and my allowance when she would shop while I was at school. I didn't realize 7" singles had a shelf life. My list had the ones she couldnt find.. "Rock Me Tonight", "I Love Rock & Roll", "Little Red Corvette (which I had only recently heard)"..

I got home that day from school excited to see what my mom found. On my bed was my first store-bought LP.. Purple Rain. We didn't have much money back then, so I didnt own albums. My mom came in smiling and said "that's the one you wanted right? I put a little to it and got you that because they didnt have anything on your list".

Listening to that album was like a whole world opening up to me. The songs were longer that I had the 45s of. Once in a great while the radio played the long Lets Go crazy, and the video had the long When Doves Cry.. but I remember "Computer Blue" sounded like music from another world.

My mom had no idea..first how much it meant to me that she picked up on my love of music then enough to know how much I wanted that album.. and two that it was probably that night that really kicked down the door on my fascination for many genres of music at once.

Soon came Christmas 1985.. "Around The World in a Day" on cassette, and "1999" on vinyl.. again I now had 45s of "Raspberry beret", "Pop Life" and a "backtabak" 1999/Little Red Corvette 7".. But my world was forever rocked. I was fascinated with his videos, his character, how rich the music was. Even when it was weird, it was always interesting.

I have replied to a similar post about this before, so i will not bore you with the details again.

To cut a story short, it is my sisters fault.

But i do thank her for it.

I was exposed to Prince at an early age but I didn't fall in love with the man and become his fan until I was in middle school. I was about 13 years old and able to watch Purple Rain and understand it completely...in the midst of all of that, I fell in love with Prince's talent in the movie. The man could dance, sing, be seductive, charming and mysterious all at the same time. It got to a point where every day I would come home from school and have to see some kind of scene or another from the movie to satisfy my Princely thirst. From there I started listening to his current album out at the time "The Gold Experience" and became obsessed with it. Then the next year when "Emancipation" came out, I fell in love with him again and I've been stuck on him ever since.

I had to have all of his albums, I had to see all of his live appearances whether they were performances or interviews..as much as I could find and I had to watch "Under the Cherry Moon" and "Graffiti Bridge". Prince was my drug habit that I couldn't kick, Even now, if I date someone new, I let them know that I'm an avid fan of Prince, he's my favorite musical artist of all time...and if they can't accept that, then we aren't going to last.

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... my official first album.

I was working at a light and utility company and there was this cutie I used to like that used to always 'allude' to the fact that she was out of my league but, she never said it. One day I heard her listening to Gold Experience and 'P Control' was playing and I was thinking that album was rockin' and I asked her if I could borrow it, she said yeah and I thought it would have us to get a lil closer because of it. Needless to say, we didn't and Emancipation came out not too long after. 'Jam of The Year' Miami was poppin' off so I had to see P. I was blown aways. Not only by the crowd of fans there from all walks of life but, his performance was great. Not the greatest I've seen since then but, up there. The best show was the Target Center Mpls and Paisley Park Oct. 2009.

Now we have 20Ten and hopefully a U.S. tour will pop off ((soon)). It's been a great journey and P has keep it HOT the entire time.

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PurpleLove7 said:

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... my official first album.

I was working at a light and utility company and there was this cutie I used to like that used to always 'allude' to the fact that she was out of my league but, she never said it. One day I heard her listening to Gold Experience and 'P Control' was playing and I was thinking that album was rockin' and I asked her if I could borrow it, she said yeah and I thought it would have us to get a lil closer because of it. Needless to say, we didn't and Emancipation came out not too long after. 'Jam of The Year' Miami was poppin' off so I had to see P. I was blown aways. Not only by the crowd of fans there from all walks of life but, his performance was great. Not the greatest I've seen since then but, up there. The best show was the Target Center Mpls and Paisley Park Oct. 2009.

Now we have 20Ten and hopefully a U.S. tour will pop off ((soon)). It's been a great journey and P has keep it HOT the entire time.

I love these threads ... [img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif[/img:$uid]

Yeah didn't Emancipation come out in the fall? I remember being so excited because my birthday is in the fall, and I remember hearing "Jam of the Year" back then in '96. It takes me back to that time every time I listen to the Emancipation album.

littleredcorvette said:

I remember when I was ten years old, ready to watch purple rain for the first time!

LAWRD! when I saw prince... ...I tought I was gonna die! I tought he was SO hot! so the next day I just literallty flew to the wrecka stow and bought the purple rain album,, since then, I'm obsessed with this man!

HOPE U WOULD LIKE TO SHARE UR STORY!

I was in the Navy in 1982, stationed in Great Lakes Illinois (near Chicago). I saw him in concert along with Vanity 6 and The Time; I believe it was his 1999 tour. I was blown away and have been a die hard fan every since. I have seen him three more times since then. 1987 at Seattle Center Coliseum. 1997 at The Gorge in George Washington. Lastly at Key Arena in Seattle Washington. I am looking forward to seeing him again whenever he is close to the Seattle Washington area.

It was 1984, I was 12 years old and watching music videos. I remember seeing "When Doves Cry" for the first time. Once Prince stood up in the bath tub and held out his hand, I was HOOKED!!!