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Thread started 10/20/11 1:57pm

thedance

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Secret "hand signs" from Prince on Parade - the album cover

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^ Great album artwork, and also Parade is one of my fave Prince albums as well.

I have heard this, about Prince, he is using hand signs on the Parade cover, signs for the 2 words: "Think" & "Love". The signs that the deaf are using. This should explain why his hands are in these positions. Pretty cool, if this is true.

But is this actually true... or just speculation?

Has anyone else heard this too?

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Reply #1 posted 10/20/11 2:12pm

Soulstar77A

http://www.lifeprint.com/...l/love.htm

Google is your friend... wink

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Reply #2 posted 10/20/11 2:16pm

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^ .... does not look too good for this theory, then.

Damn.... (I can't remember where I have read or heard this, it just sounded too good)..

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Reply #3 posted 10/20/11 2:21pm

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It was mentioned on the 1997 MTV Doc 'All About The Artist' i think.

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Reply #4 posted 10/20/11 2:28pm

thedance

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rlittler81 said:

It was mentioned on the 1997 MTV Doc 'All About The Artist' i think.

eek

thanks rlittler81.

this could be true, I mean.. I remember I did record this doc from MTV on VHS tape many years ago.....

thank God, these hand signs are not just something my mind has made up then. lol

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Reply #5 posted 10/21/11 11:07pm

MIGUELGOMEZ

Personally I just think he's vogue-ing. He's framing his face.

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Reply #6 posted 10/22/11 12:15am

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He always poses his hands in photos, part of his aesthetic
"So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..."
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Reply #7 posted 10/22/11 5:51am

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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Personally I just think he's vogue-ing. He's framing his face.

wow - last time I heard vogue-ing was at the time when madonna had her hit about vogue-ing smile

but u might be quite right

greets

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Reply #8 posted 10/22/11 7:57am

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i do not know about that but in the 90s he had a sweater that had hand letters in sign language that spelled a word... (yes I know what it said, just not going to tell ya!)

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Reply #9 posted 10/22/11 8:04am

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now to the cover:

so he is using his pinky to touch his head... pinky and the brain?

and with the other hand it looks like a L...so that could be love... so let's see

"Pinky and the Brain" (forget that that show did not exist in 86 i will address that below) and Love?

and what did the brain LOVE? taking over the world?

so prince wanted to take over the world? Parades are often held following a government take over: and the prior album "around the world..." means going to a war? and Purple Rain (bombs falling from the sky) following the dooms day of 1999... war is also a Controversy!

So it is clear that in 86 prince had not only discovered time travel (thus he had seen pinky and the brain: which stared in 1993 the year the dropped Prince and became prince It all fits...

unless he was just poseing?

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Reply #10 posted 10/22/11 9:53am

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"oh Mr Tumble!!!!"
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Reply #11 posted 10/22/11 10:55am

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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #12 posted 10/22/11 4:06pm

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kenkamken said:

He always poses his hands in photos, part of his aesthetic

hmph! its deliberate
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