I'm curious about the age of org members and how old you were when you discovered Prince.

If you were born after 1978, what Prince release corresponds with your birthyear?

I was born in '89, the year of Batman, making me 26. I discovered prince at a very young age, not really sure how old, but I recall my parents owning Love Symbol and Graffiti Bridge and The Hits/B-Sides. I remember secretly listening to 'Sexy MF' and feeling real dirty, but Pop Life was my first favorite track and the reason I got into the rest of his work.

This is my first post btw

I'm 19. 20 this August so I'm around the same age as The Gold Experience as I believe that ame out September '95? One month after I was born.

As for how old I was when I discovered Prince, I always liked '80s music from a young age but I really got into goth music in 2010 when I was 14. I just kind of discovered his hit records along the way. I was a 'hits' kind of fan up until I met my current boyfriend who saw I liked Rick James and suggested I listen to Prince more. He's not a crazy fan like I am, but it literally is kind of his his fault I'm so obsessed with Prince now!

I count myself very lucky that I got into Prince in 2013 because he played Manchester last Febuary and I got to see him up close after only being a 'hardcore' fan for under a year!

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Great first post!

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I was born in 1978, making me 36 so I guess my corresponding birthyear album is For You.

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I was about 16 when I purchased my first Prince/Symbol album which was The Gold Experience, purchased b/c I had recently heard TMBGITW & 7 (I know it's not on TGE) on the radio & I thought it was badass that someone so famous was changing their name to an unpronouncable symbol... I had to figure out who this dude was whose music I liked so much.

I am 7 years younger than Prince..

to answer the question I was 17 when I discovered the 1999 album in feb 1983..

Guess I'm the elder here--I first heard I Wanna Be Your Lover on the radio in 1980 and thought it was Sylvester.

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45 now, got in to Prince in about 1991 but had obviously heard stuff from hime before, just hadn't really taken much notice.

camillioestevez said:

I'm curious about the age of org members and how old you were when you discovered Prince.

If you were born after 1978, what Prince release corresponds with your birthyear?

I was born in '89, the year of Batman, making me 26. I discovered prince at a very young age, not really sure how old, but I recall my parents owning Love Symbol and Graffiti Bridge and The Hits/B-Sides. I remember secretly listening to 'Sexy MF' and feeling real dirty, but Pop Life was my first favorite track and the reason I got into the rest of his work.

This is my first post btw

40-45

20. I was born in 1995, the year of The Gold Experience. I got into Prince in 2010. I listened to 20Ten and didn't think much of it, but I'd heard (or maybe I'd read on the internet) that Prince was this amazing artist and I wanted to know what the fuss was all about so I bought 1999. I've been a huge fan ever since.

nosajd said:

Great first post!

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I was born in 1978, making me 36 so I guess my corresponding birthyear album is For You.

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I was about 16 when I purchased my first Prince/Symbol album which was The Gold Experience, purchased b/c I had recently heard TMBGITW & 7 (I know it's not on TGE) on the radio & I thought it was badass that someone so famous was changing their name to an unpronouncable symbol... I had to figure out who this dude was whose music I liked so much.

We're the same age. But my first Prince album was the symbol one. It was one of my first CD's ever.

i'm 51. 5 years younger than prince.

i got in on the ground floor - i was 12 or 13 maybe 14? i can't remember exactly how we all knew about prince before his first record came out, but i think a friends cousin was a musican...there were alot of parliament members and/or relatives in my town where i grew up....someone had a reallllly bad sounding cassette that we all huddled around listening lololol

it was 'for you' (possibly demos, hard to remember now)

i remember thinking prince was magical, that he did it all by himself --- i had everything on vinyl, cassettes, cds....then in october i moved to costa rica, and i kept the vinyl and the cds.


now i'm a middle-aged married lady. (still cute tho, don't get it twisted)

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Why is age more than a number?

I'm 56. I figure the average Prince fan these days is in their 40's or 50's although thank goodness there are still younger people discovering his incredible music.

I discovered Prince when he released "Soft and Wet" but only because I thought it was a disco song and disco was big then. I didn't really start following him until the Controversy album, and realized his genius with the 1999 album.

45. Timed things perfectly to be 14 when Purple Rain came out. I knew the 1999 album (it got played on school field trips), but I didn't buy anything until When Doves Cry. Had everything by the time Around the World in a Day rolled around.

I was 11 in '84 when I first got into Prince via the Purple Rain soundtrack. I had heard "I Wanna Be Your Lover" many years before but was too young to care about music artists. I did like the song though. For some reason 1999 (the album and singles) passed me by, although Prince was a huge hit on MTV. I just wasn't interested at the time I guess.

I'm closing in on 49. "Purple Rain" came out in 1984, during the summer before my freshman year of college. But I didn't become a true fan until the summer of 1987, thanks to "Sign 'O' The Times" (still my favorite Prince album).

44. Prolly first heard 1999 on the radio, but a schoolmate turned me on to the 1999 album because of the profanity.

44 here. 1984 was when i fully hopped on board.

A perplexed casual observer rather than a fan now. That goes for most music too though these days. I'd rather watch a good movie to be honest.

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The average Prince fan is "medium old", somewhere between a spring chicken and Betty White.

I am 34 years old and first got into Prince when I was 15 back in 1996 after seeing the Cream video a bunch of times during that summer. Bought Diamonds and Pearls because it was on there and never looked back!

44 year old. Discovered Prince in 1982 when I was 12. (Little Red Corvette, 1999, and Automatic music videos were in heavy rotation on TV). When Doves Cry Video came out when I was 14, that was it, hooked for life.

Still playing AOA in the car.

I'm 35. His second album was released the year I was born.

I have no memories whatsoever of his PR to SOTT era days. I do remember what Stevie Wonder and MJ were doing though then though.

My first memories of Prince must have been from the Batman movie and the songs in it, but I really paid attention to him only during the D&P and Symbol album days when he had all those women dressed up in sexy clothes in his videos and I was starting to find that kind of thing hot at 12-13. I didn't even realize the guy in the videos was wearing make-up and high heels too.

I became a fan a little bit later on when I started to get into playing instruments myself.

TheEnglishGent said:

45 now, got in to Prince in about 1991 but had obviously heard stuff from hime before, just hadn't really taken much notice.

This is a bit like me. I'm 44.

I was aware of him in the UK since 84/85 (first chart hits, Spitting Image, BPI awards 85 appearance), the Kiss single and then Sign O The Times title track and double album made me realise he was something special, Lovesexy 88 still passed me by a little, but hooked back in by 89 and the Batman album, then Graffiti Bridge went back under the radar for me, 1991 onwards totally hardcore...

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