ultimate showman - nuff said! After watching that, still feels odd that he has left this earth.

Yes. The vast majority of those shows were recorded, either in video and/or audio, and leaked almost immediately after. Every one was different, and amazing.

I could never stand the "in the round" setup. He used that on far too many tours.

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FunkiestOne said:

I could never stand the "in the round" setup. He used that on far too many tours.

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In the round was my favorite. Better sight lines.

I remember Prince playing this exact set list during his Musicology tour...I gotta say that was slightly hyper. Prince was wearing his all red suit, and Ronda Smith was killin it on the bass.

Yes. This brought back a lot of memories, thanks for posting. I saw him twice in London and, as peole here are saying, each show was different but I remember loving the rendition of "I Feel For You" specifically. Gawd, I'd give a lot to be back there.

ofcourse, it's man!

they were

The three I saw (would have gone to more but I live too far from London to have gone more often) were stunning, and all different. The set changed a lot from show to show. I was there on the night this was filmed, on the lower tier at the "O" of the symbol. Remember we were given glowsticks on our way in, apparently so they would look good on TV.

Mostly, but I was only slightly disapointed with one of the 12 I attended. It was the 18th August show, it started late and was probably the shortest of all the main shows, only 85 minutes according to princevault.com.

Not sure what was up that night but it was soon forgiven when he played a great aftershow at the Indigo. Opened with Superstition and Higher Ground, spent a good chunk of the night playing his keyboard and I'm quite certain that anybody who attended that one will never forget his big red hat! It's such a shame that photos were not allowed and now all we have are memories, which will fade day by day

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This was filmed on the last night of the tour, and was absoutely outstanding. From memory he was due to come on at 8pm, but as you can see he came on at half 8... he came on and did the 'normal' encore, but before the rest of the show. The atmosphere was out of this world. To have a full encore type reaction before the show actually 'started' was truly unbelievable. Pretty sure the purple/peach paper hearts came down from the top of the arena too during this part of the show.

Then off he went, came back on, and did the rest of the show. Finished just before 11... and then I made my way across to Indigo to see the aftershow that finished at about 4am.

What a night!!!!... and what a tour..... and what a man he was!

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1stAvenue said:

This was filmed on the last night of the tour, and was absoutely outstanding. From memory it was only about 8pm... he came on and did the 'normal' encore, but before the rest of the show. The atmosphere was out of this world. To have a full encore type reaction before the show actually 'started' was truly unbelievable. Pretty sure the purple/peach paper hearts came down from the top of the arena too during this part of the show.

Then off he went, came back on, and did the rest of the show. Finished just before 11... and then I made my way across to Indigo to see the aftershow that finished at about 4am.

What a night!!!!... and what a tour..... and what a man he was!

That aftershow was epic! Amy Winehouse there to sing Love Is a Losing Game to open the show. As it got later and later I kept thinking it was finishing but he kept on going and going, awesome night.

The last night main show (8.30pm to 11.10pm) and aftershow (1.10am to 4.30am) might be the best night of my life...!

I was there.

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Awesome tour!

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Was there too , the night Elton John was guest. Miss you Prince.

TheEnglishGent said:

1stAvenue said:

This was filmed on the last night of the tour, and was absoutely outstanding. From memory it was only about 8pm... he came on and did the 'normal' encore, but before the rest of the show. The atmosphere was out of this world. To have a full encore type reaction before the show actually 'started' was truly unbelievable. Pretty sure the purple/peach paper hearts came down from the top of the arena too during this part of the show.

Then off he went, came back on, and did the rest of the show. Finished just before 11... and then I made my way across to Indigo to see the aftershow that finished at about 4am.

What a night!!!!... and what a tour..... and what a man he was!

That aftershow was epic! Amy Winehouse there to sing Love Is a Losing Game to open the show. As it got later and later I kept thinking it was finishing but he kept on going and going, awesome night.

Was at that show and aftershow. Was listening to the aftershow the other day, and it struck me that neither Amy Winehouse nor Prince are still with us.

McD said:

I went to 11 of the 21 main shows, and about five or six aftershows but was really unlucky and he only performed at 2 of them. I bought all bar two of the tix on the day, when the VIP seats not bought were sold for £31.21 for those spending all day on Ticketmaster. Stood next to Bobbie Gillespie of Primal Scream one night. He seemed to be digging it. I was dying to ask him about a comment he made years earlier to UK Vox magazine saying he had 'surpassed Prince', but that would have been uncool and he was bigger than me. Saw him with Elton and with Amy, although you can't go and see that many shows without a lot of them blending together in the memory. Happy, happy days.

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That is amazing!

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So in fact you attended more Aftershows than Prince!

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Surely that has to be a first!

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Yes, happier times for sure, as this did put him in the limelight once more at that point.

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He'll be missed for sure.

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Last night at the 02- what a night!

Does anyone have the proper setlist for this? I've seen two different ones and can't remember what he played now. I do remember Purple Rain being played early in the set and Cream.....

allwaystired said:

Last night at the 02- what a night!

Does anyone have the proper setlist for this? I've seen two different ones and can't remember what he played now. I do remember Purple Rain being played early in the set and Cream.....

Princevault to the rescue:

http://www.princevault.co...mber_2007

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I saw both Musicology and some of the O2 shows - the 2004 band was better but the setlists and performances at the O2 were way more fun. The indigo being in the same building made it all so easy for the late shows.

So, yeah it really was all that good and lasted nearly 2 months:)

stu said:

I saw both Musicology and some of the O2 shows - the 2004 band was better but the setlists and performances at the O2 were way more fun. The indigo being in the same building made it all so easy for the late shows.

So, yeah it really was all that good and lasted nearly 2 months:)

His residency covered all 31 days of August and 21 days of September.

3121.

TheEnglishGent said:

stu said:

I saw both Musicology and some of the O2 shows - the 2004 band was better but the setlists and performances at the O2 were way more fun. The indigo being in the same building made it all so easy for the late shows.

So, yeah it really was all that good and lasted nearly 2 months:)

His residency covered all 31 days of August and 21 days of September.

3121.

First shows I booked tix for were

7 Aug

31 Aug

21 Sept

..just incase he pulled something special out the bag for the magic numbers

allwaystired said:

Last night at the 02- what a night!

Does anyone have the proper setlist for this? I've seen two different ones and can't remember what he played now. I do remember Purple Rain being played early in the set and Cream.....

I'm sure I've got a proper setlist someone as I remember doing a write up the day after....see if I can dig it out.

TheEnglishGent said:

1stAvenue said:

This was filmed on the last night of the tour, and was absoutely outstanding. From memory it was only about 8pm... he came on and did the 'normal' encore, but before the rest of the show. The atmosphere was out of this world. To have a full encore type reaction before the show actually 'started' was truly unbelievable. Pretty sure the purple/peach paper hearts came down from the top of the arena too during this part of the show.

Then off he went, came back on, and did the rest of the show. Finished just before 11... and then I made my way across to Indigo to see the aftershow that finished at about 4am.

What a night!!!!... and what a tour..... and what a man he was!

That aftershow was epic! Amy Winehouse there to sing Love Is a Losing Game to open the show. As it got later and later I kept thinking it was finishing but he kept on going and going, awesome night.

I remember it got to 4.00am, Prince had already done two aftershoow encores, and I turned to the fan next to me (was stood with a great set of fans all night!) and said "That's probably it, time to head home", and he looked at me, smiled and said "I've got a feeling he's gonna come out again".

Was so sure he wouldn't; it was four in the morning!!! But damn if he wasn't right and he came out again as fresh as daisies and played another half hour. Mind BLOWN!!!

darkroman said: