callimnate said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

An Honest Man was played on piano in opening scene, the lyrics were spoken in a poem when Christopher was in his cave hideaway

Once upon a time in France

there lived a bad boy name Christopher Tracey

Only 1 thing mattered 2 Christopher... money

the women he knew came in all sizes shapes & colors

and they were all rich, very rich

Private concertos kind words & fun is what he had 2 offer them

yes Christopher lived 4 all women

but he died 4 1

Somewhere along the way he learned the true meaning of love

♥

1. Under the Cherry Moon Outro - Piano Instrumental [Intro Voice over]
2. An Honest Man - Piano Instrumental [Titles]

An Honest Man

I want 2 be an honest man
I'll be your slave, just understand
How much I need U
And if I died
We'll be 2gether side by side

With U I know I can stand, stand
With U I can be an honest man

♥

Anyone heard of (or seen) the original intro to this, with P leaving a "clients" house the morning after, and then catching up with Jerome and Venus De Milo, before the bar scene kicks in!?

I've only heard about it but have never seen it. : (

I've only seen images of the 'Venus De Milo' scene

Initial tracking took place on 20 April, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (three days after Wendy's Parade, New Position, I Wonder U and Under The Cherry Moon, on the same day as Others Here With Us and Tibet and the day before Life Can Be So Nice and Sometimes It Snows In April).

Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song at some point in mid-late 1985 at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA. The lyrics of this original version mention several personal details of changes in Prince's band and his relationships with bandmembers and staff.

This version (with orchestration) was included as the eighth track on a 1 May, 1985 configuration of Parade (and would therefore have been credited to Prince and the Revolution), but was removed before the album's release.

-PrinceVault

Old Friends 4 Sale

The sun set in the west this mornin'
4 I know, I know L.A. is callin'
Bad news, Steve said, and people are talkin'
They say your kingdom is fallin', yeah
They say U lost your fire
When another musician U hired
Little do they know, U wouldn't have passed go
Unless they could take U higher, yeah

The sun set in my heart this afternoon
4 2 friends of mine got stuck in the snow
In Uptown when winter's alarmin', oh
Cocaine becomes charmin'
But U talk about things U don't know 'bout
I know, no matter how pleasant your past was
Green and white return 2 blue
U're happy as long as your last buzz
And then U think U want something new, yeah

The sun, the sun set in my mind this evening
4 someone who said they would die 4 me
Sold some, they sold some more pictures and all my little memories
Chump change is 2 unravel the mystery, ah ha
But life is no fun, life ain't no fun without fantasy
Some things are better left unsaid
And some people are better left untrusted
Maybe, maybe, maybe it'll all make sense when I'm dead
When I'm dead

Old friends 4 sale
Get'em while the gettin' is hot
Watch out, they'll kiss U until they get what U got
And they'll show U the friends that they're not
Old friends 4 sale

Old Friends 4 Sale
This slow bluesy classic is one of Prince's most autobiographical songs in which he sings about Steve Fargnoli, Wendy Melvoin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and the late bodyguard Chick Huntsberry. A somber mood is established from an eerie slightly discordant synth with a piano the main accompaniment. Recorded during the Parade sessions, two versions exist, with one including Clare Fischer's orchestra.

PRINCE TALKS

ROLLING STONE (1985)

Prince is fiddling with the tape deck inside the T-Bird. On low volume comes his unreleased "Old Friends 4 Sale," an arrow-to-the-heart rock ballad about trust and loss. Unlike "Positively 4th Street" -- which Bob Dylan reputedly named after a nearby Minneapolis block -- the lyrics are sad, not bitter. "I don't know too much about Dylan," says Prince, "but I respect him a lot. 'All Along the Watchtower' is my favorite of his. I heard it first from Jimi Hendrix."

"Old Friends 4 Sale" ends, and on comes "Strange Relationships," and as-yet-unreleased dance tune. "Is it too much?" asks Prince about playing his own songs in his own car. "Not long ago I was driving around L.A. with [a well-known rock star], and all he did was play his own stuff over and over. If it gets too much, just tell me."

An ignition turns. "Wait," calls Prince, remembering something. He grabs a tape off the T-Bird seat and yells to his father, "I got something for you to listen to. Lisa [Coleman] and Wendy [Melvoin] have been working on these in L.A." Prince throws the tape, which the two female members of his band have mixed, and his father catches it with one hand. Nelson nods okay and pulls his car behind his son's in the alley. Closely tailing Prince through North Minneapolis, he waves and smiles whenever we look back. It's impossible to believe that the gun-toting geezer in Purple Rain was modeled after John Nelson.

Mountains video directed by Prince

April 14. 1986
Mountains Video Shoot

Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy
17 mountains stood so high
The sea surrounded them and together they would be
The only thing that ever made u cry
U said the devil told u that another mountain would appear
Everytime somebody broke your heart
He said the sea would 1 day overflow with all your tears,
And love will always leave u lonely

MOUNTAINS

Initial tracking taking place on 30 November, 1985 (on the same day as An Honest Man), almost seven months after a first sequence of the Parade album was compiled. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music, and brought it to Prince. He composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release. Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song at some point in mid-late 1985 at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA, but Princepreferred the track without orchestration, and chose to use the track without orchestration for the final release. -PrinceVault

7"

(US/NZ: 7-28711, UK: W8711, JAP: P-2121, DEU/CAN: 928 711-7, AUS: MX211603-4)
A. Mountains (3:58)
B. Alexa De Paris (3:20)

Once upon a time in a land called Fantasy
17 mountains stood so high
The sea surrounded them and 2gether they would be
The only thing that ever made U cry

U said the devil told U that another mountain would appear
Every time somebody broke your heart
He said the sea would one day overflow with all your tears
And love will always leave U lonely

CHORUS:
But I say it's only mountains and the sea
Love will conquer if U just believe (Oh yeah!)
It's only mountains and the sea
There's nothing greater (oh), U and me

Once upon a time in a haystack of despair
Happiness is sometime hard 2 find there
Africa divided, hijack in the air
It's enough 2 make U wanna lose your mind

CHORUS

Guitars and drums on the 1, huh
(Bobby on the drum-ah)
Yeah!

It's only mountains (oh yeah) and the sea
(And the girls say)
There's nothing greater (oh), U and me

(Starvation)
Ow!

Mountains , uh

OldFriends4Sale said:

Here he looks runway-ready. late 80s early 90s jet-setter, fashion foward, supermodel craze. Watchout Linda Evangelista & Cindy Crawford! this guy is comin' up 2 the runway.

12"

(US: 0-20465, DEU/CAN: 920 465-0, AUS: MX211605-6)
A. Mountains (Extended Version) (9:56)
B. Alexa De Paris (Extended Version) (4:54)

It's only mountains & the sea
And the girls say
There's nothing greater, than U & me

monti e mare (as they say in italy)

it's only mountains and the sea...

Parade

so thank you

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this thread is amazing..

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[Edited 10/14/12 4:37am]

a few more Parade Gif's:

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I love this cover pic:

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^

Innersleeve, from the Parade vinyl LP:

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+ Kiss, an alternate pic,

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^ from

from Record Collector:

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[Edited 10/14/12 5:02am]

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NICE

I always loved that collage

That looks like snippets of a movie

Prince made a big mistake in not having the bands in UTCM

they had so much character

Instead of trying 2 be Morris uh oops I mean being a gigolo who is turned around by love 'so cliche'

a band with music that turn a social world around

That's a high quality scan of a wonderful collage, thanks, HamsterHuey!

HamsterHuey said:

the Pursuit of Equality, How real today? BrownMark

Brown Mark – electric bass, percussion, keyboards, vocals,