I read somewhere that Prince and Susan were High School sweethearts. How old were they when they got together & how long did they date? What is Susan doing these days, any recent pictures? After Apollonia 6 she seemed to disappear.

jungleluv said:

I read somewhere that Prince and Susan were High School sweethearts. How old were they when they got together & how long did they date? What is Susan doing these days, any recent pictures? After Apollonia 6 she seemed to disappear.

I believe they knew each other since High School but I believe he was dating her somewhere in the 1978-1981 period.

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They were planning to reunite as Vanity 6 around the same time the Time did 89/90, but that is when Vanity had her health scare I believe.

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She and Brenda are still good friends, and I believe she is in touch with Denise Matthews too.
She was spotted at a few 3121 shows.

Family and pop culture

Moonsie, the daughter of a conservative school teacher, is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is of Black and Indian heritage originally from Trinidad. She was one of Prince's high school girlfriends. She married actor David Garfield on December 29, 1988. Garfield died on November 24, 1994, from a heart attack. Moonsie is also mentioned as a character in the lyrics of the Timex Social Club hit song Rumors. "Did you hear that one about Susan, some say she's just a tease. In a camisole she's six feet tall. She'll knock you to your knees". This fact was confirmed by Timex Social Club founding member and lyricist, Marcus A. Thompson.

Great info OldFriends4Sale. Susan has always been one of my favorite "Prince women." There was just something about the coy, innocent role. Was it confirmed that "When Doves Cry" is about her?

xpertluva said:

Great info OldFriends4Sale. Susan has always been one of my favorite "Prince women." There was just something about the coy, innocent role. Was it confirmed that "When Doves Cry" is about her?

and Private Joy

I suspect in many different ways, people who in his life in those 1976-1989 years were all kinds of inspiration directly and indirectly

OldFriends4Sale said:

xpertluva said:

Great info OldFriends4Sale. Susan has always been one of my favorite "Prince women." There was just something about the coy, innocent role. Was it confirmed that "When Doves Cry" is about her?

and Private Joy

I suspect in many different ways, people who in his life in those 1976-1989 years were all kinds of inspiration directly and indirectly

I didn't know about "Private Joy." THanks!

OldFriends4Sale said:

SoulAlive said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

They were planning to reunite as Vanity 6 around the same time the Time did 89/90, but that is when Vanity had her health scare I believe.

Wow,really??

It's too bad that didn't happen, right?

xpertluva said:

xpertluva said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

and Private Joy

I suspect in many different ways, people who in his life in those 1976-1989 years were all kinds of inspiration directly and indirectly

I didn't know about "Private Joy." THanks!

The lyrics to Private Joy were directed at Susan Moonsie, a longtime friend whom he began dating after the Dirty Mind tour. Prince had met her in highschool and even spent some nights on her family's couch before the Anderson family took him in. When she emerged as his principal romantic interest in the early 1980s, his associates foun her to be an intelligent, grounded, unmanipulative person -perhaps the perfect complement to a mercurial, egocentric artist.

"She was more of a girlfriend than any girlfriend he had ever had," observed Rivkin...

Possessed: the Rise & Fall of Prince pg 41

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