Wondering if Prince toured at all for this album, and especially if their are any known complete live recordings (not where to find them) made from this era.

He never toured specifically for ATWIAD, the gigs in 1985 were the rest of the Purple Rain shows.

He did play some one off shows during this time though.

This is a great site for a quick Prince gig reference http://sites.google.com/s...tory/intro

There are a number of shows circulating from 1985.

A great show from this period to track down is 4DaFunk's 27 V2. It is an improved version of the "Mutiny At The Prom" release and is a great document of Prince's 27th birthday party show.

However there are no tracks played from ATWIAD. It's not really till you get to the Parade shows that you get songs played from ATWIAD.

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a lot of the ATWIAD songs were performed with the Parade shows

Around the World in a Day

Condition of the Heart (piano)

America

Pop Life

the Ladder (I believe)

Raspberry Beret

MrLee192 said:

Wondering if Prince toured at all for this album, and especially if their are any known complete live recordings (not where to find them) made from this era.

Yes he did, while in France

Theatre Du Verdure, France 10.27.1985

October 27 , 1985
Theatre Du Verdure, France
Video Shoot

The videotaped interview was conducted in France, where Prince was shooting his forthcoming motion picture, Under the Cherry Moon. He first took a break to film the video for America, the third single from the Around the World in a Day LP, before 2,000 kids at the Theatre de la Verdure (translation: Greenery Theatre), which is a huge tent on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Once the video shoot was completed, Prince & the Revolution treated the audience to a 90-minute concert. Afterwards, Prince sat with a few of the young people in attendance and answered the questions prepared by the MTV Music News staff. It marked the first time in his career that Prince had said more than two sentences on TV. Unfortunately, in many cases, he didn't answer the questions posed, as you'll see. Although Prince is very good at many things, his inexperience with interviews shows greatly.

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1.Pop Life
2.Temptation
3.Paisley Park
4.Love Or Money `
5.Go *
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1.America [Video]
Mini Concert
2.Paisley Park
3.Delirious
4.Little Red Corvette
5.Purple Rain

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MTV (1985)
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THE PRINCE INTERVIEW
Mr. Purple Discusses His Movies, His Music, His Musicians
And More, More, More.

By Michael Shore

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Under the Cherry Moon is a love story, set in the 1940s and shot in black and white. Word from the set has it that the plot is more or less spelled out in the lyrics to "Condition of the Heart" on Around the World in a Day, which appears to be about a musician falling in love with a woman too rich and worldly for his own lifestyle.

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While the plot may come from a Prince song, don't expect much Prince music in Under the Cherry Moon. Another unidentified crew member says the Revolution was on the set only to shoot the video for "America," that there's no band music in the film at all, and that the only Prince music in the film is His Royal Badness at the acoustic piano. So there may or may not be soundtrack album. Another crew member confirmed, though, that there is one actual "song," and it's called something like "Snowing in July." You'll recall that when Prince announced he would stop touring late in the Purple Rain tour, one of his cryptic reasons was, "Sometimes it snows in July."

The videotaped interview was conducted in France, where Prince was shooting his forthcoming motion picture, Under the Cherry Moon. He first took a break to film the video for America, the third single from the Around the World in a Day LP, before 2,000 kids at the Theatre de la Verdure (translation: Greenery Theatre), which is a huge tent on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Once the video shoot was completed, Prince & the Revolution treated the audience to a 90-minute concert. Afterwards, Prince sat with a few of the young people in attendance and answered the questions prepared by the MTV Music News staff. It marked the first time in his career that Prince had said more than two sentences on TV. Unfortunately, in many cases, he didn't answer the questions posed, as you'll see. Although Prince is very good at many things, his inexperience with interviews shows greatly.

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Someone in Minneapolis recently told us that several months ago they were in a studio there when David Rifkin, your sound engineer, walked in. They asked him what he thought of the new Prince album, Around The World In A Day. He said, "It's great, but wait 'til you hear the new album." Apparently, he meant you're already working on a new LP, and that this one would be a strong return to your funk roots. Is this true? Can you elaborate? What will it be called? When will it be due out, and what's the music like?

Don't you like surprises? Guess not. Ah, it is true I record very fast. It goes even quicker now that the girls help me -- the girls, meaning Wendy and Lisa. I don't really think I left my funk roots anywhere along the line. Around The World In A Day is a funky album. Live it's even funkier.

Why did you make the announcement that there'd be no singles or videos from that LP, and then start issuing singles and making videos anyway?

Because I wanted this album to be listened to, judged, critiqued as a whole. It's hard to take a trip and go around the block, and stop when the trip is 400 miles. Dig?

Speaking of singles and videos, your latest is "America." This is one of the most political songs you've ever done. Could you tell us what the song is supposed to say to people? For example, is it straightforwardly patriotic or more complicated than that?

Straightforwardly patriotic.
We understand you directed the "America" video, and that you also directed "Raspberry Beret." How do you approach directing a video? Do you consult others in order to keep a certain perspective when directing yourself?

Yes, definitely. When directing myself, I consult Steve (Fargnoli), my manager. On directing other Paisley Park artists, I consult the artists first and foremost. One of the things I try to do with the things I direct -- namely for our acts -- is go for the different, the out-of-the-norm, the avant purple, so to speak. And the thing that's unique about the situation I'm in now with these people is that they all know who they are, and they agree with me when we say the one thing we produce is the alternative. If someone wants to go along for that ride, then cool.

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Can you tell us about Paisley Park?

Paisley Park is an alternative. I'm not saying it's greater or better. It's just something else. It's multicolored, and it's very fun.

Can you comment on the incident that occurred after the American Music Awards in January 1985?

We had talked to the people that were doing USA for Africa, and they said it was cool that I gave them a song for the album. It was the best thing for both of us, I think. I'm strongest in a situation where I'm surrounded by people I know. So it's better that I did the music with my friends than going down and participating there. I probably would have just clammed up with so many great people in a room. I'm an admirer of all of the people who participated in that particular outing, and I don't want there to be any hard feelings. As far as the incident concerning the photographer goes, it's on the flip side of "Pop Life." The main thing it says is that we're against hungry children, and our record stands tall. There is just as much hunger back here at home, and we'll do everything we can, but y'all got to understand that a flower that has water will grow and the man misunderstood will go

He performed a couple of the songs (Raspberry Beret, and America as an encore)
during the Purple Rain tour, and did a few pop ins at other people's shows already in Cherry Moon mode, but there was never a devoted tour.

PR tour started winding down in March, with a final show in June. ATWIAD came out in late April. The Hit and Run tour dates (which should have been called the Holly Rock tour) in mostly medium sized clubs were the following summer, a year later, and it was mostly ATWIAD and Parade, with a lot of Holly Rock thrown in.

treehouse said:

He performed a couple of the songs (Raspberry Beret, and America as an encore)
during the Purple Rain tour, and did a few pop ins at other people's shows already in Cherry Moon mode, but there was never a devoted tour.

PR tour started winding down in March, with a final show in June. ATWIAD came out in late April. The Hit and Run tour dates (which should have been called the Holly Rock tour) in mostly medium sized clubs were the following summer, a year later, and it was mostly ATWIAD and Parade, with a lot of Holly Rock thrown in.

Eh? No.

The tour finished April, with two weeks to spare before the new album. The june date was simply a birthday gig and bore no resemblance to the previous tour.

and Holly Rock Tour!?!?!? Holly Rock thrown in!?!? Where did this shit come from?

Not really. Prince released a statement at the end of the PR tour which said he was going to retire from live performance for an indefinite period of time, and that he was going to "look for the ladder". This was three weeks before the release of ATWIAD. He only kind of held true to this, hence no live dates in support of the new album.

But his "retirement" didn't last. He played the birthday show and the one-off gig in France before hitting it live again full swing with the Parade Tour in 1986.