there is a piece/quote I'm looking for where Brenda talks about Susannah Melvoin and her working on Next Time Wipe the Lipstick Off Your Collar

10.11.1984 on the Countdown (Australian broadcast)

10.6.1984 @ the TROS Formule 1 Festival
Maaspoort Den Bosch, Holland

1. Shortberry Strawcake
2. the Belle of St Mark

3. Noon Rendezvous

4. The Glamorous Life

5. 2 Sexy

10. 5.1984 @ the Ritz in Stockholm, Sweden
1. Shortberry Strawcake

2. The Belle of St Mark

3. Noon Rendezvous

4. Oliver's House

5. 2 Sexy

6. the Glamorous Life

7. Erotic City

rel. 5.2 .1984

Sheila E., Prince (as The Starr ★ Company)

She wears a long fur coat of mink
Even in the summer time
Everybody knows from the coy little wink
The girl's got a lot on her mind

She's got big thoughts, big dreams
And a big brown Mercedes sedan
What I think this girl, she really wants
Is to be in love with a man

She wants to lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much

She saw him standing in the section marked
If you have to ask, you can't afford a lingerie
She threw him bread and said make me scream
In the dark what could he say

Boys with small talk and small minds
Really don't impress me in bed
She said, I need a man's man, baby, diamonds and furs
Love would only conquer my head

She wants to lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much

They made haste in the brown sedan
They drove to 55 Secret Street
They made love and by the seventh wave
She knew she had a problem

She thought real love is real scary
Money only pays the rent
Love is forever that's all your life
Love is heaven sent, it's glamorous

Lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much

She wants to lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much, it ain't much

Lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much, it ain't much

She wants to lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much, it ain't much

Lead a glamorous life
She don't need a man's touch
She wants to lead a glamorous life
Without love, it ain't much, it ain't much

Sheila E. - vocals, percussion Prince - all instruments, except where noted (uncredited) Larry Williams - saxophone David Coleman - cello

Initial tracking took place on 27 December 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (the day before In A Spanish Villa and Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar), and the song was originally intended for Apollonia 6 until Prince began to work with Sheila E. in February 1984, at which time he set the song aside for her.

Sheila E.'s vocals were recorded in the first few days of April 1984, also at Sunset Sound. The Glamorous Life is notable for featuring the first use of saxophone on a Prince-related track, played by Larry Williams.

The track also features the first released appearance of David Coleman (Lisa Coleman's brother) on a Prince-related track, playing cello.

-PrinceVault

“Glamorous Life” by Sheila E

Here’s the thing: you need the nine-minute version of “Glamorous Life.” The lyrics cast a woman with confidence & desires, one worse than a gold-digger—actually independent, as secretly wanting love’s cage. But what hooked me on this song as a child was not Prince’s judgey shittiness, but Sheila E’s blur in singing the line “She don’t need a man’s touch,” was glamour’s allure. And what gets me now about this song is Sheila E’s five-minute percussion solo, stretching Prince’s perfect pop melody into playfully virtuosic & ass-shaking territories, jettisoning bullshit & transforming the song from within. And this is the part of the song that never ends.

-Mathias Svalina

http://coldfrontmag.com/g...-sheila-e/

Sheila E's sister Zina

2.18.1985 @ the Inglewood Forum in Los Angeles
Opening 4 Prince & the Revolution on the Purple Rain tour

1. Shortberry Strawcake
2. the Belle of St Mark

3. Oliver's House

4. Next Time Wipe the Lipstick Off Your Collar

5. Erotic City

6. the Glamorous Life

the American Music Awards in 1985

12th American Music Awards -

held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, January 28, 1985

Prince & the Revolution + Big Chick

Sheila E & band sitting in front of them (performs the Glamorous Life)

Apollonia 6 in attendance

Sheila E presented an award with Kenny Loggins

purplepolitician said:

Belly!!!!
I say that all the time!