Do you think Prince get a lot of calls to contribute or work with other artists?

Name the artist you know Prince refused to work with.

Prince refused to work with :

Bob Dylan,beleive it or not seen Prince on

early during Dirty Mind Tour.

He sent Prince an offer but Prince refused.

Diana Ross-wanted Prince to produce her ,

but he didn't want to do it,so she asked Nile Rogers.

Andre Cymone was angry because he refused Diana

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thebanishedone said:

Do you think Prince get a lot of calls to contribute or work with other artists?

Name the artist you know Prince refused to work with.

Prince refused to work with :

Bob Dylan,beleive it or not seen Prince on

early during Dirty Mind Tour.

He sent Prince an offer but Prince refused.

Diana Ross-wanted Prince to produce her ,

but he didn't want to do it,so she asked Nile Rogers.

Andre Cymone was angry because he refused Diana

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Where did that all come from? Not that i don't believe u but i'd like to know more about this and the sources. Thanks.

CocoRock said:

Michael Jackson (Bad) Jay Z (Black Album) USA for Africa ( We Are The World) Wendy and Lisa (Roadhouse Garden) That's just off the dome. I'm sure there are plenty others.

Where did the Jay-Z info come from? Not that i don't believe u but i'd like to know more about this and the sources. Thanks.

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He didn't help Apollonia out in Purple Rain

thebanishedone said:

Bob Dylan, beleive it or not seen Prince on early during Dirty Mind Tour. He sent Prince an offer but Prince refused.

Really? Never heard that one before. What's the source? I can't imagine Prince working with Bob Dylan - at least not around the Dirty Mind era

Dimitri10 said:

He didn't help Apollonia out in Purple Rain

well not until he seen her chesticles

NeW York Dirty Mind concert that circulates on video,well Prince was seen by few celebrities that night like Mick Jagger who was thrilled by Prince's performance

(latter Mick Jagger invited Prince to open for the Rolling Stones.

Beside Mick there was Bob Dylan who was also

impressed with Prince and Dylans managment reached

Prince and ask for a meeting and a possible colaboration

but Prince refused to meet Dylan.

Prince had that crazy attitude,few years latter when legendary

blues guitar player Stevie Ray Vaughn aproached Prince ,Prince didn't even look at Stevie,

he ignored him without saying a word.

^The incident with Dylan was at First Avenue, MPLS.

I never heard about the intention of a collaboration. I just read that Dylan was seeing him perform and asked to meet & greet but Prince wasn't interested.

Where does the story about Diana asking Prince to produce her and Andrè getting pissed about that come from?

Why didn't he offer to produce Whitney in her prime, honestly up to 1995 the sister gave me goosebumps, don't believe imagine Prince producing "All the man I need" or could you imagine her singing "Love thy will be done" rather than Martika?

databank said:

I remember around 1990 or so Jon Bon Jovi said publicly that he wanted to work with Prince. he said he could add rock to Prince's sound and Prince could add some funk to his. No response from Prince - happily.

LinnLM1 said:

I remember around 1990 or so Jon Bon Jovi said publicly that he wanted to work with Prince. he said he could add rock to Prince's sound and Prince could add some funk to his. No response from Prince - happily.

Your Honour, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I submit this as evidence that Prince DOES, occasionally, make good decisions from time to time.

Lisa Stansfield. I think she refused to work with him though.

Klick

LinnLM1 said:

I remember around 1990 or so Jon Bon Jovi said publicly that he wanted to work with Prince. he said he could add rock to Prince's sound and Prince could add some funk to his. No response from Prince - happily.

I don't recall hearing that. I do remember in 1991, Jon Bon Jovi wanted to use the NPG band to record.

motherfunka said:

klick2me said:

Lisa Stansfield. I think she refused to work with him though.

Klick

ah good one.

IIRC she didnt want to be referred to as a "prince girl" or the likes.

CocoRock said:

motherfunka said:

I don't recall hearing that. I do remember in 1991, Jon Bon Jovi wanted to use the NPG band to record.

Right. And Prince said something to effect of "that would be like letting him sleep with my woman". Dude is a stone cold fool.

I never heard that statement before. Maybe becoming a JW has changed things. Now the likes of Justin Timberlake, Nick Jonas, and Jeff Beck are "sleeping with his woman."

bigwillpreacher said:

CocoRock said:

motherfunka said: Right. And Prince said something to effect of "that would be like letting him sleep with my woman". Dude is a stone cold fool.

I never heard that statement before. Maybe becoming a JW has changed things. Now the likes of Justin Timberlake, Nick Jonas, and Jeff Beck are "sleeping with his woman."

If my memory serves me correctly, I think it was in the Spin article in 1991.

klick2me said:

Lisa Stansfield. I think she refused to work with him though.

Klick

wit her fine ass!!

Bette Midler, Dángelo leaked that he was on 'James River" which was shot down, NERD, Miles..they did stuff but Miles wanted a full blown album and prince was too weird about it.

eyewishuheaven said:

LinnLM1 said:

I remember around 1990 or so Jon Bon Jovi said publicly that he wanted to work with Prince. he said he could add rock to Prince's sound and Prince could add some funk to his. No response from Prince - happily.

Your Honour, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I submit this as evidence that Prince DOES, occasionally, make good decisions from time to time.

Yeah, no project. But i would love to see him sit in with a major rock band of that era, for 80's music fans it would be a great. I'd love to see him sit in with Blondie

thebanishedone said:

Do you think Prince get a lot of calls to contribute or work with other artists?

Name the artist you know Prince refused to work with.

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Maurice White (of EWF) who was proposed by WB as producer of "For You".

CocoRock said:

Wendy and Lisa (Roadhouse Garden) T

Uh, no. Prince put the word out via the press that he wanted to work on Roadhouse Garden w/ Wendy and Lisa, but he never actually called him. W&L said they heard about it after the fact. At one point he asked them to come to MPLS for the Revolution reunion @ The Celebration, but he wanted them to 'renounce lesbianism'. They declined.

JudasLChrist said:

There was a time when he didn't want to work with Me'Shell Ndegeocello. I know they worked with each other during the Emancipation era, but I remember Me'Shell saying in a recent BBC interview that when she was in the process of writing some stuff for her and Prince to do, Prince kinda brushed her off in a arrogant way, saying that the reason he wouldn't work with her is because of label reasons. I was kinda shocked when I heard this after hearing that one of the cuts they did together is on the Emancipation album (even though it's uncredited)....

silverchild said:

There was a time when he didn't want to work with Me'Shell Ndegeocello. I know they worked with each other during the Emancipation era, but I remember Me'Shell saying in a recent BBC interview that when she was in the process of writing some stuff for her and Prince to do, Prince kinda brushed her off in a arrogant way, saying that the reason he wouldn't work with her is because of label reasons. I was kinda shocked when I heard this after hearing that one of the cuts they did together is on the Emancipation album (even though it's uncredited)....

It was probably because she is a lesbian.

silverchild said:

There was a time when he didn't want to work with Me'Shell Ndegeocello. I know they worked with each other during the Emancipation era, but I remember Me'Shell saying in a recent BBC interview that when she was in the process of writing some stuff for her and Prince to do, Prince kinda brushed her off in a arrogant way, saying that the reason he wouldn't work with her is because of label reasons. I was kinda shocked when I heard this after hearing that one of the cuts they did together is on the Emancipation album (even though it's uncredited)....

Which was the track for Emancipation? I know I read about before but I forgot which song.

I saw Me'Shell live a couple months ago, in Vancouver. Great show.

Militant said:

silverchild said:

There was a time when he didn't want to work with Me'Shell Ndegeocello. I know they worked with each other during the Emancipation era, but I remember Me'Shell saying in a recent BBC interview that when she was in the process of writing some stuff for her and Prince to do, Prince kinda brushed her off in a arrogant way, saying that the reason he wouldn't work with her is because of label reasons. I was kinda shocked when I heard this after hearing that one of the cuts they did together is on the Emancipation album (even though it's uncredited)....

Which was the track for Emancipation? I know I read about before but I forgot which song.

I saw Me'Shell live a couple months ago, in Vancouver. Great show.

Which track indeed?

DeVante Swing from JoDeCi had some form of declination from his Royal Badness, TTD, Ke$ha? Let the debate (fights) proceed...

Huggiebear said:

Why didn't he offer to produce Whitney in her prime, honestly up to 1995 the sister gave me goosebumps, don't believe imagine Prince producing "All the man I need" or could you imagine her singing "Love thy will be done" rather than Martika?

Whitney would have probably been all over it (I don't know about her management). I remember an interview in Star Hits where she was asked who she wanted to collaborate with and her answer was Prince.