D.M.S.R

Sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)

Somebody say
Dance
(Dance)
Music
(Music)
Sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)

Everybody say
Dance, oh
(Dance)
Music
(Music)
Sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)

Everybody say
Dance
(Dance)
Music
(Music)
Oh sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)

Everybody
Dance
(Dance)
Music
(Music)
Everybody say sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)

Everybody
(D.M.S.R.)
Dance
(Dance)
Music
(Music)
Sex
(Sex)
Romance
(Romance)
(D.M.S.R.)
Alright

Jamie Starr's a thief
It's time to fix your clock
Vanity 6 is so sweet
Now you can all take a bite of my purple rock
Can we stop?
Are you ready?
(Hey)

Everybody sing this song now
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
Everybody say
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance

Negroes say
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
Puerto Ricans sing it
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance

Everybody sing this song
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
All the white people in the house say
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance

Japanese say it one time
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Dance, music, sex, romance
Everybody sing together, say
Ooh
(Ooh)
Alright
(Alright)
Hey
Dance, music, sex, romance

Somebody call the police
(Somebody call the police)
Say ooh, yeah, yeah
(Help me)
(Someone please help me! Somebody help me!)

That Radio City shot is amazing! 10 years later to (almost) that day I saw him there in concert . Thanks for posting that pic.

SPYZFAN1 said:

That Radio City shot is amazing! 10 years later to (almost) that day I saw him there in concert . Thanks for posting that pic.

U R Welcome
I added 2 more pix

"Prince: The Secret Life of America's Sexiest One-man Band"

continued

Prince, the Pauper

Piece together Prince's story from his own partial accounts, and you come up with sort of a musical Wild Child, an untamed loner who raised himself and taught himself how to survive among the wolves. Patch together the history told by the people close to him, and you get a version like this:

The first notes of the Minneapolis sound were heard in a big brick house in North Minneapolis, an aging, primarily black section of town that draws outsiders only to the Terrace Theatre, a movie house designed to look like a suburban backyard patio, and the Riverview Supper Club, the nightspot a black act turns to after it has polished its performance on the local chitlin circuit. North Minneapolis is a poor area by local standards, but a family with not too much money can still afford the rent on a whole house. It was there that Bernadette Anderson, who was already raising six kids of her own by herself, decided to take in a doe-eyed kid named Prince, a pal of her youngest son, Andre.

The thirteen-year-old Prince had landed on the Anderson doorstep after having been passed from his stepfather and mother's home to his dad's apartment to his aunt's house. "I was constantly running from family to family," Prince has said. "It was nice on one hand, because I always had a new family, but I didn't like being shuffled around. I was bitter for a while, but I adjusted."

His father, John Nelson, was a musician himself—a piano player in a jazz band by night, a worker at Honeywell, the electronics company, by day. Nelson is black and Italian; his ex-wife, says Prince of his mother, "is a mixture of a bunch of things." Onstage, the father was called Prince Rogers, and that is what he named his son, Prince Rogers Nelson.

John Nelson moved out of the family home when Prince was seven. But he left behind his piano, and it became the first instrument Prince learned to play. The songs he practiced were TV themes— Batman and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "My first drum set was a box full of newspapers," he has said, explaining how he came to play a whole range of instruments. "At thirteen, I went to live with my aunt. She didn't have room for a piano, so my father bought me an electric guitar, and I learned how to play." But the aunt wasn't keen on the noise, and she threw him out. It was then that Prince turned up at Andre's.

Hardly into their teens, Prince and Andre (who uses the surname Cymone) had already formed their first group. Prince recalled, "I got my first band. I wanted to hear more instruments, so I started Champagne, a twelve-piece band. Only four of us played. Eight were faking. Andre and I played saxophone. I also played piano. I wrote all the music. The songs were all instrumentals. No one ever sang. When I got into high school, I started to write lyrics. I'd write the really, really vulgar stuff."

Andre, on the other hand, claims the first band had Prince playing lead guitar, Andre himself on bass guitar, his sister Linda on keyboards and the Time's Morris Day on drums. The group was called Grand Central, later renamed Champagne. The musicians all wore suede-cloth suits with their zodiac signs sewn on the back (Prince, born on June 7, 1960, had Gemini, the twins, on his). For a time, they were managed by Morris' mother, which didn't make Prince very happy. "She wasn't fast enough for Prince," says Mrs. Anderson. "He wanted her to get them a contract right away."

The band practiced in Andre's basement, where Prince had established a bedroom of his own. "It sounded like a lot of noise," says Bernadette Anderson. "But after the first couple of years, I realized the seriousness of it. They were good kids. Girls were crazy about them."

Andre—whose father had played bass in the Prince Rogers Band—says that although the family was poor, Prince "dug the atmosphere. It was freedom for him." There wasn't enough money to buy records, but there was a family friend—a reclusive black millionaire, says one source—who gave the kids the money to go to a local studio to record a few songs. The studio they picked was called Moon Sound.

pt2

December 29. 1982 1999 Tour
The Summit Houston

1.Controversy
2.Let's Work
3.Do Me, Baby
4.D.M.S.R
5.Lisa's Keyboard Solo
6.How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
7.Lady Cab Driver
8.Automatic

Moonbeam Levels is an unreleased song recorded on 6 July, 1982 (the day before Lady Cab Driver), at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA.

-PrinceVault

Yesterday I tried 2 write a novel but I didn't know where 2 begin
So I laid down in the grass tryin' 2 feel the world turn
Boy loses girl in a rain storm, nuclear World War III
All that's left is pain and sorrow, as far as he's concerned

CHORUS:
He says please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
I'm lookin' 4 a better place 2 die

Maybe he's lookin' 4 a different world
Maybe he's lookin' 4 a brand new high
Maybe he would like a nice condo overlookin' the rings of Saturn
Maybe he wants affection instead of a plastic life
Maybe he doesn't know what he wants at all

CHORUS

A newborn child knows nothing of destruction
Nothing of love and hate
What happens in between is a mystery
Because we don't give a damn about his fate

He said he'll never keep diaries 2 learn from his mistakes
Instead he'll just repeat all the good things that he's done
Fight 4 perfect love until it's perfect love he makes
When he's happy then his battle will be won (It's never 2 late)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your.. send 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your levels 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Sending me your.. send 2 me)
I'm lookin' 4 a better place 2 die (Better place 2 die)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me (Oh yeah!)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me {x2}
He don't, he don't, he don't really wanna die
He don't wanna, he don't wanna, he don't wanna die {x2}
He don't really wanna die

Automatic is a song by Prince from his 1982 album, 1999. It was released as a 7" single only in Australia, with the B-side of "Something In the Water (Does Not Compute)".

A promotional music video directed by Bruce Gowers, who previously directed the "1999" video as well as videos from Queen, Rod Stewart and John Mellencamp, was produced for the song, which features band mates Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones whipping Prince in a simulated S&M session. The video was not released through conventional outlets but circulates amongst collectors.

Recorded Sunset Sound and Minneapolis 1982

Automatic

U ask me if I love U
It's automatic
Cuz every time U leave me, I die
That's automatic 2

U ask me 2 forgive U
When U know I'm just an addict
So stop the music, baby
U know U're all I wanna do

CHORUS:
(Hey!)
A-u-t-o-matic
Just tell me what 2 do (Oh)
A-u-t-o-matic
I'm so in love with U

U ask me if I'll kiss U
It's automatic
And if U cry, me cry, boo hoo
That's automatic 2, ooh

I would never leave U
No matter what U do
So stop the music, baby
U know I'm an automatic fool

(Hey!)
A-u-t-o-matic
Just tell me what 2 do (Until I stop)
A-u-t-o-matic (Oh)
I'm so in love with U (Oh ooh)

I'll rub your back 4ever
It's automatic (A-u-t-o-matic)
I'll look 4 a needle in a haystack
That's automatic 2, ooh (A-u-t-o-matic)

I'll go down on U all night long
It's automatic (U will?) (Yes I will, babe)
And even when I'm right, I'll be wrong
That's automatic 2 (A-u-t-o-matic)

(CHORUS) {repeat 3 times in BG}
Tell me what 2 do, baby
Mmm
So in love with U, yeah
Tell me what 2 do, baby
So in love with U, baby yeah
Alright, alright
Tell me what 2 do, baby
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

(Hey!)
A-u-t-o-matic {x2}

Come on, baby
A-u-t-o-matic
Tell me what 2 do
A-u-t-o-matic
So in love with U

Don't say that no man has ever tasted your ice cream
Baby, U're the purple star of the night supreme
U'll always be a virgin
4 no man deserves your love
I only pray that when U dream
I'm the one U dream of
I pray that when U dream
U dream of how we kiss
Not with our lips, but with our souls
Stop me if I bore U
Why is it that I think we'd be so good in bed?
Can U hear me?
Why do I love U so much?
It's so strange, I'm more comfortable around U when I'm naked
Can U hear me?
I wonder if U have any mercy, don't torture me

Stop the music, baby
Automatic fool!

When it comes 2 U, I'm automatic, baby
There's no one else like me
I'm the best U'll ever find
No one else could understand U
U're 2 complex
They say nothing's perfect
But they don't know U
It's automatic 2
Can U hear me?

(A-u-t-o-matic) {repeat in BG}

Honey, I'm so addicted 2 your pleasure
I'm addicted 2 your pain
It's automatic
Automatically insane
Undress me

Hey!
A-u-t-o-matic, oh no, no, no, no
A-u-t-o-matic {x2}
Hey!

Fasten your seat belts
Prepare 4 takeoff

I can dream of how U kissed me
Not with your lips, but with your soul
With U I'm never bored
Talk 2 me some more
I can hear U
I'm going 2 have 2 torture U now

© 1982 Controversy Music - ASCAP

Initial tracking for Automatic took place on 2 May, 1982 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (four days after Something In The Water (Does Not Compute), seven days before Delirious).

Don't say that no man has ever tasted your ice cream
Baby, U're the purple star of the night supreme
U'll always be a virgin
4 no man deserves your love
I only pray that when U dream
I'm the one U dream of
I pray that when U dream
U dream of how we kiss
Not with our lips, but with our souls
Stop me if I bore U
Why is it that I think we'd be so good in bed?
Can U hear me?
Why do I love U so much?
It's so strange, I'm more comfortable around U when I'm naked
Can U hear me?
I wonder if U have any mercy, don't torture me

Stop the music, baby
Automatic fool!

When it comes 2 U, I'm automatic, baby
There's no one else like me
I'm the best U'll ever find
No one else could understand U
U're 2 complex
They say nothing's perfect
But they don't know U
It's automatic 2
Can U hear me?

Honey, I'm so addicted 2 your pleasure
I'm addicted 2 your pain
It's automatic
Automatically insane
Undress me

Fasten your seat belts
Prepare 4 takeoff

I can dream of how U kissed me
Not with your lips, but with your soul
With U I'm never bored
Talk 2 me some more
I can hear U
I'm going 2 have 2 torture U now

A promotional music video directed by Bruce Gowers

iZsaZsa said:

Prince said he plays saxophone.

what chu talkin bout ZsaZsa?

OldFriends4Sale said:

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Delirious

I get delirious whenever U're near
Lose all self-control, baby, just can't steer
Wheels get locked in place
Get a stupid look on my face
When it comes 2 makin' a pass, pretty mama
I just can't win a race

Cuz I get delirious
Delirious
Delirious

I get delirious when U hold my hand
Body gets so weak I can hardly stand
My temperature's runnin' hot
Baby, U got 2 stop
Cuz if U don't I'm gonna explode
And girl I've got a lot

I get delirious, yeah
Delirious
Delirious

I get delirious whenever U're near
Girl, U gotta take control cuz I just can't steer
U're just 2 much 2 take
I can't stop, I ain't got no brakes
Girl, U gotta take me 4 a little ride up and down
In and out around your lake

I'm delirious
U, U, U get me delirious
Baby, lay me down
Delirious
The room, the room, the room is spinnin' around, oh yeah
(Delirious) {repeat in BG}
I..I..I..I'm deliri... oh yeah, oh I, oh I, yeah
Delirious, yeah
It's got me in repair, everybody look out
Everybody will know
Oh yeah, I'm delirious
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

(Delirious) {x5}

© 1982 Controversy Music - ASCAP

I actually heard this song on XL 103 FM radio (Calgary) yesterday as I hopped into my car! It's always a delight to hear his hits on the radio, and I don't hear this one as often as the others.

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

what chu talkin bout ZsaZsa?

Look at your post, #125, in the second hilighted section, Prince says he and Andre play saxophone. Is he playing it on his songs all this time?

ah ok, I thought it was something naughty lol

In an early (pre WB deal) Prince talked about having started playing sax, but never fully learned

OldFriends4Sale said:

Time to contribute to this awesome thread again

Slightly different angle from what has already been posted:

1999 Concert shirt:

and yet more....

Averett said:

and yet more....

This is one of the thing I miss about album releases. There were so many alternative covers

Averett said:

Time to contribute to this awesome thread again

Slightly different angle from what has already been posted:

wow, what a sexxy motherf*cker..


very nice thread..!

Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)

Must be something in the water they drink
It's been the same with every girl I've had
Must be something in the water U drink
'Cuz why else would a woman wanna treat a man so bad?

I've got 2 get 2 U, baby
Some people think I'm kinda smart
Why must a fella stop with U before he starts?
It don't compute, mama (Does not compute)
Somethin' don't compute (Don't not compute)
I'd buy U clothing, buy U fancy cars
But U gotta talk 2 me, baby, tell me who U really r

Must be something in the water they drink
It's been the same with every girl I've had
Must be something in the water U drink
Why else would a woman wanna treat a man so bad?

(Must be something in the water U drink)
(Does not compute)
(Don't not compute)
(Don't not compute)
(Must be something in the water U drink)
Bitch - U think you're special? (Must be something in the water U drink)
So do I
(second coming) (Must be something in the water U drink)
Why in God's name
Do U wanna make me cry?
Why? Why? (Must be something in the water U drink)
I'd do anything 4 U, anything (Must be something in the water U drink)
Why don't U talk 2 me? (Must be something in the water U drink)
Tell me who u r (Must be something in the water U drink)
Don't do this 2 me (Must be something in the water U drink)
Please don't do this (Must be something in the water U drink)

Why? Why?
I do love U. I do.
Or else I wouldn't go through all the things I do

Initial tracking took place at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, in mid-April 1982. Prince re-recorded the song on 28 April 1982 (two days after How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, four days before Automatic) at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA.