Dig If U Will the Picture...
Erotic City, can't U see?

Come on and touch the place in me
A world of never ending happiness
Bring 2 life a vision in one's mind

He gave us light 2 rule the day

Lookin 4 my sunshine
U are the one that makes my love shout

Is the water warm enough?

Your dirty little Prince wanna grind

Make U happy when U're sad
Tell me do U like what U see?
I only wanted 2 see U bathing in the purple rain

Prince & the Revolution, Purple Rain, the Time, Ice Cream Castles, Apollonia 6, Sheila EJill Jones

Dance Electric Manic Monday Sugar Walls
a movie a world tour
non stop awards
long versions, B sides, videos

PURPLE RAIN

Shall I wash u 1st or shall u wash me?

17 Days

the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose

17 Days", written by Prince, Wendy, Lisa, Dr. Fink song slated for the Vanity 6 album. background vocals include Brenda Bennett

When Doves Cry B side

released 5.16.1984

Called u yesterday
U didnt answer your phone
The main drag is knowing that
U probably werent alone

So here I sit in my lonely room
Lookin 4 my sunshine
But all Ive got is two cigarettes
And this broken heart of mine

So let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Youve been gone 17 days
17 long nights
The main drag is knowing that
Youre holding someone else tight

I wanna to call u everyday
And beg u 2 be near me
But I know your head is underwater
I doubt that u could hear me

So let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
17 days
Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
17 days

Called u yesterday
U didnt answer your phone
If youre the one whos always lonely
Then Im the one whos always alone

So here I sit in my lonely room
Lookin 4 my sunshine
All Ive got is 2 cigarettes
And this broken heart of mine

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Why dont you answer your phone? 

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
17 days

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
17 days

I LOVE this era I love The Time's Ice Cream Castles, Sheila E., Purple Rain , Apollonia 6

That was definitely an illustrious period in Prince's career. Not only did he got a hot movie, but got the hot album, the hot group, the hot sound, almost all of the people he produced had a hit under his assumed pseudonyms, and he got an Oscar and a Grammy on top of it. Yeah great period!

Timmy84 said:

That was definitely an illustrious period in Prince's career. Not only did he got a hot movie, but got the hot album, the hot group, the hot sound, almost all of the people he produced had a hit under his assumed pseudonyms, and he got an Oscar and a Grammy on top of it. Yeah great period!

I can't think of an artist who had a better year since Prince in '84.

Maybe Eminem when 8 Mile came for the same reason. He had a hot album, a hot single, a hot protegee by the name of 50 Cent that was about to release his 1st album, a couple of Grammys, and an Oscar.

The Purple Rain tour was the highest grossing tour that year in '84, too.

Nowadays, the top grossing tour are normally by veteran artists who've been around for decades.

He basically released 4 albums in one year

Paris9748430 said:

Timmy84 said:

That was definitely an illustrious period in Prince's career. Not only did he got a hot movie, but got the hot album, the hot group, the hot sound, almost all of the people he produced had a hit under his assumed pseudonyms, and he got an Oscar and a Grammy on top of it. Yeah great period!

I can't think of an artist who had a better year since Prince in '84.

Maybe Eminem when 8 Mile came for the same reason. He had a hot album, a hot single, a hot protegee by the name of 50 Cent that was about to release his 1st album, a couple of Grammys, and an Oscar.

The Purple Rain tour was the highest grossing tour that year in '84, too.

Nowadays, the top grossing tour are normally by veteran artists who've been around for decades.

Yeah I know what you mean. 1984 was a crazy year. How was he able to accomplish all of that still astonishes me. That year was a real blur too!

Timmy84 said:

Paris9748430 said:

I can't think of an artist who had a better year since Prince in '84.

Maybe Eminem when 8 Mile came for the same reason. He had a hot album, a hot single, a hot protegee by the name of 50 Cent that was about to release his 1st album, a couple of Grammys, and an Oscar.

The Purple Rain tour was the highest grossing tour that year in '84, too.

Nowadays, the top grossing tour are normally by veteran artists who've been around for decades.

Yeah I know what you mean. 1984 was a crazy year. How was he able to accomplish all of that still astonishes me. That year was a real blur too!

That's why it's kind of a head scratcher that Purple Rain lost out at the Grammys for Album of the Year to Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down.

Don't get me wrong. That's a great album, Lionel's an amazing songwriter, and just because something's popular doesn't mean it's the best, but COME ON!

Paris9748430 said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah I know what you mean. 1984 was a crazy year. How was he able to accomplish all of that still astonishes me. That year was a real blur too!

That's why it's kind of a head scratcher that Purple Rain lost out at the Grammys for Album of the Year to Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down.

Don't get me wrong. That's a great album, Lionel's an amazing songwriter, and just because something's popular doesn't mean it's the best, but COME ON!

Yeah Prince was robbed.

Timmy84 said:

Paris9748430 said:

That's why it's kind of a head scratcher that Purple Rain lost out at the Grammys for Album of the Year to Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down.

Don't get me wrong. That's a great album, Lionel's an amazing songwriter, and just because something's popular doesn't mean it's the best, but COME ON!

Yeah Prince was robbed.

I think the voters were just too afraid of Prince's rauchiness and braziness. They didn't want that "Filthy McNasty" to be the album award-winning face of music that year. So, they decided to go with the wholesome and safe choice, Lionel Richie.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah Prince was robbed.

I think the voters were just too afraid of Prince's rauchiness and braziness. They didn't want that "Filthy McNasty" to be the album award-winning face of music that year. So, they decided to go with the wholesome and safe choice, Lionel Richie.

That could be true.

Timmy84 said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

I think the voters were just too afraid of Prince's rauchiness and braziness. They didn't want that "Filthy McNasty" to be the album award-winning face of music that year. So, they decided to go with the wholesome and safe choice, Lionel Richie.

That could be true.

Although, honestly if you see the other albums that were nominated that year. She's So So Unusual, Private Dancer, and Born in the USA. I could see any one of those albums winning, 1984 was that awesome a year in music!

Paris9748430 said:

Timmy84 said:

That could be true.

Although, honestly if you see the other albums that were nominated that year. She's So So Unusual, Private Dancer, and Born in the USA. I could see any one of those albums winning, 1984 was that awesome a year in music!

So true!

Purple Rain defines Prince to this very day, great era of his career. Also houses my favorite Prince song, Erotic City

PURPLE RAIN
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
Warner Bros.

The spirit of Jimi Hendrix must surely smile down on Prince Rogers Nelson. Like Hendrix, Prince seems to have tapped into some extraterrestrial musical dimension where black and white styles are merely different aspects of the same funky thing. Prince's rock & roll is as authentic and compelling as his soul and his extremism is endearing in a era of play-it-safe record production and formulaic hit mongering. "Purple Rain" may not yield another smash like last year's "Little Red Corvette," but it's so loaded with life and invention and pure rock & roll thunder that such commercial considerations become moot. When Prince sings "Baby I'm a Star," it's a simple statement of fact.

The Hendrix connection is made overt here with the screaming guitar coda that ends "Let's Go Crazy," with the manic burst that opens "When Doves Cry" and in the title song, a space ballad that recalls "Angel" with its soaring guitar leads and a very Hendrixian lyrical tinge ("It's time we all reach out for something new -- that means you, too"). There are also constant reminders of Sly Stone in the ferocious bass lines and the hot, dance-conscious mix. But like Jimi and Sly, Prince writes his own rules. Some of his effects are singularly striking - note that eerie, atonal synthesizer touches that creep in at the end of "The Beautiful Ones" and the otherworldly backward-vocal montage in the frankly salacious "Darling Nikki" -- and his vocals continue to be among the most adventurous and accomplished on the current scene. Prince also does wonderful things with string-section sounds, and his band -- if it's not actually him playing all the parts -- burns throughout.

Anyone partial to great creators should own this record. Like Jimi and Sly, Prince is an original; but apart from that, he's like no one else.

-- KURT LODER

OldFriends4Sale said:

This is my background on my phone

InternationalLover82 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

This is my background on my phone

I think every Prince fan had this poster.

And every artist in school drew this picture

the window has a new mexico feel to it, wonder where it was taken

OldFriends4Sale said:

InternationalLover82 said:

This is my background on my phone

I think every Prince fan had this poster.

And every artist in school drew this picture

the window has a new mexico feel to it, wonder where it was taken

If I could guess: California?

OldFriends4Sale said:

InternationalLover82 said:

This is my background on my phone

I think every Prince fan had this poster.

And every artist in school drew this picture

the window has a new mexico feel to it, wonder where it was taken

I had the one with the whole band.

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Unfortunately, I left it when we moved away when I was 5!

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

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

I really want 2 see the deleted scenes!

A question about this era that remains a mystery: Who's face is that on the wall behind them on the poster?

aardvark15 said:

I really want 2 see the deleted scenes!

Album Credits
Lisa Coleman: Keyboards and Voice
Wendy: Guitar and Voice
Bobby Z: Percussion
Brown Mark: Bass and Voice
Matt Fink: Keyboards and Voice
All thanks 2 God: the light,

Lisa & Wendy, Bobby, Mark & Matt: The Revolution,

Big Chick: the protector,

Steve, Bob & Joe: the producers,

Albert Magnoli: the director,

Peggy Mac: the patience,

Fred Moultrie: the money,

Lee Phillips: the brains

Warner Bros. Records & Film: belief,

God 4 the "rain",

Sandy: the case,

The Time: “chicken grease”,

Apollonia 6: Susan, Brenda & Apollonia: patience, wisdom & beauty,

Jill: love,

Roy Bennett: loyalty,

David Leonard: the blade,

Susan Rogers: energy, C

arol McGovney: devotion,

God: 4 the rainbow

William Blinn: the story,

Alan Leeds: the expert.

Thanks 2 Don Thorin and all the cast & crew of Purple Rain

Clarence Williams, Olga Karlatos, Kim: hi,

Morris & Jerome, Katy, Billy Sparks: what up ‘tho? Richard Arrington,

God: 4 the sun,

Wally, Gator, Dez Dickerson & the Modernaires,

Steve & everybody at 1st Avenue,

all the extras & anybody else we foolhardedly forgot 2 mention.

Thanks 2 all, may u live 2 see the Dawn.

I Would Die 4 U is my absolute favourite song from Purple Rain. It was one of the earliest songs I heard when I first became a Prince fan a few years ago. I had that song on repeat for days.

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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Dr Fink w/Taja Sevelle

(1) Black Screen

SOUND under: MUSIC building in INTENSITY
as--

PRINCE
(over)
Dearly belov`ed,
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing
called life.
Electric word life,
It means forever and that's a
mighty long time.
But I'm here to tell you that
there's something else -- The
afterworld.

Then huge CU of EYES opening, gazing
into mirror, HAND applying makeup,
sudden BLACKNESS, then--

PRINCE
(con't)
That's right...a world of
never-ending happiness,
You can always see the sun --
Day or night.

BURN IN MAIN TITLE: PURPLE RAIN

PRINCE
(con't)
So when you call up that
shrink in Beverly Hills,
You know the one -- Doctor
Everything'll Be Alright--
Instead of asking him how much
of your mind is left,
Ask him how much of your time,
`Cause in this life,
Things are much harder than in
the afterworld,
In this life, You're on your
own.



Now, pulsating COLOR -- FLASHES of hot,
white LIGHT...



PRINCE
(con't)
And if de-elevator tries to
bring you down,
Go crazy, punch a higher
floor.

and the BEAT provocative now,
relentless, BUILDING with fierce intent
to--





(2) INT. CLUB (1ST AVE. ST. BAR) -- NIGHT

The MECCA! The last stop for a band
before national fame.

The HUGE cavernous HALL is PACKED!
PEOPLE are DANCING like MAD! VIDEO
SCREENS with WILD GRAPHICS hang
suspended from the ceilings. Beautiful
WAITRESSES criss-cross the floor in a
frenzy.

PRINCE is CENTER-STAGE -- LIPS caressing
the mike, black, lustrous hair shining,
eyes dancing -- SINGING "Let's Get
Crazy" as the CROWD pulsates beneath the
LASER LIGHTS.