By comparing Prince's early falsetto recordings, it's easy to see him copying Leo Sayer's style to achieve some success at the pop/disco charts. During the 1970s, Leo Sayer had the disco hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". Similar singing styles, compared to," I Want To Be Your Lover". Now tell me this isn't true.

I doubt he was influenced by Leo Sayer.

U funny guy.

U make me laugh.

phhhht

Jerky said:

Leo Sayer also had a giant Afro and hasn't released an album for a long time. It's like it's the same guy!

Jerky said:

the only similarity between Leo Sayer and Prince is their height they're both very short men

I was sat next to Leo Sayer at the Hammersmith Apollo for the One Nite Alone tour. Didn't speak to him other than to gently negotiate whose seat was whose.

I wonder how many Leo Sayer concerts Prince has attended...?

Madhouse6 said:

he has a greatest hits coming out - rumoured to be a 14 cd set

Militant said:

Madhouse6 said:

he has a greatest hits coming out - rumoured to be a 14 cd set

well its true....but not a GH http://www.amazon.com/Com...=leo+sayer

Leo Sayer kinda looks like an armpit with a face. Think about it.

Do a Google image search for Leo Sayer and you'll find a lot of pictures that look like Richard Simmons.

steakfinger said:

Do a Google image search for Leo Sayer and you'll find a lot of pictures that look like Richard Simmons.

Yep.

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (especially the "I feel like dancing (woo!) dancing (woo!) dance the night away" part) always reminds me more of Michael Jackson/The Jacksons (vocally and instrumentally) to be honest.

Blame It On The Boogie maybe...?

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thebanishedone said:

Leo Sayer have great powerfull singing voice.check his song Thunder In My Heart. When i first geard it i thought it was a Freddie Mercury solo cut.Prince is the man but Leos natural singing voice deserve much more respect.

I gotta agree with you here ...very expressive singing voice. He looked like a spastic goofball when he sang but Sayer had more than a decent voice.

Besides, I think it's Heatwave that influenced Prince, not Leo Sayer! Think about it...Johnnie Wilder also sang with a falsetto on disco hits...Heatwave was a mutli-racial band, like--gasp--the Revolution (!!)...Prince even stole his do-rag idea from Wilder:

[img:$uid]http://beatsandrants.blogs.com/hiphop/images/johnnie.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://www.sconefest.com/john/blog/prince.jpg[/img:$uid]
Next I'll show the amazing-yet-never-talked-about artistic connections between Prince and Burl Ives

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prince certainly copied his style.

for example, look at this pic of leo sayer...

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and you can see in the bottom pic how prince copied his look

[img:$uid]http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/leo_sayer_1976_06_05.jpg[/img:$uid]

you would be forgiven for mixing the two of them up

leo sayer is touring this month, doing very small venues. i do hope prince is influenced & follows suit