OK guys, what are your most vivid memories of Prince on TV??

Heres my list:

The Oprah Show

Rosie O'Donnell Show

The Muppets Tonight

His first appearence on The View

NBC Today(All appearences)

ABC Good Morning America(Being interviewed by someone called Kevin Newman where he was munching on crackers)

All the VH1/MTV Specials

The 3 day stint he did on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno where he did comedy skits

The SNL appearences

Do u guys have any faves or any memorable ones where u live??

I forgot the Ellen appearences and the Tavis Smiley one!!

Also, not so much for the performance itself, but for the attitude he displayed, when he appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman performing Dinner With Delores, cos it was barely audible, and at the end he mumbled "Free TLC" and stormed off!! Also his first appearence on that show performing Dolphin when David Letterman held up a copy of The Gold Experience album and said it wasnt going to be released!!LOLOL

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The Superbowl was the performance he was born to do... but I also liked The Emancipation Freedom Day Simulcast from Paisley Park

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Doozer said:

I would say his first appearance on Arsenio in 1991. A Prince takeover of a nightly talk show was unheard of, and it was full of great performances and really built up the hype for the release of Diamonds and Pearls. He looked and sounded great.

I forgot about that one!! Damn!! So many GOOD TV appearences its hard to think of them all!!

Too many.

In no particular order:

- American Music Awards 85

- MTV VMA 87

- Grammys 06

- Leno - Musicology

- SNL - Partyup

- Arsenio Hall 91 & 93

- Septimo

- Fallon 13

- Billboards 13

- Half Time Superbowl

- Grammys 85 or 86?

- ETC

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I know that I am gonna get awfully flamed for this, but to me, and this is just my own personal opinion, nothing more, nothing less, but the Superbowl Halftime Show just didnt sit right with me!! I dunno, there was just something so wrong about it, but to me it seemed like he reached an all time low and was just pandering to the huge corporate world and commercialism (albeit,of the NFL) that in the past he was so dead against and even sung about its evils(Listen to Corporate World), and was obviously paid BIG BUCKS for his services, plus the fact that it was an awful performance(rain aside), where he performed more covers than his own material!!I think it was a very desperate attempt to get his worldwide fame back as during the early part of the last decade it was slowly dwindling!!

As I said, this is just my OWN PERSONAL VIEW and should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt!!!

Absolute best TV performance ever is The American Music Awards in L.A. from 1-30-95. Love the dance moves and overall performance then the look he gives Mayte at the end is the hottest thing ever!! There's some pics from it at: http://prince.org/msg/7/4...?&pg=5 you have to scroll about 3/4's of the way down the page - well worth scrolling for.

The MTV 1987 awards performance. Most of the crowd in the front had no idea what the songs were, but he received a nice ovation. I also liked the "Dolphin" performance on David Letterman. He cracked me up (after commercial) when he asked Paul "is he gonna be OK?"...Supposedly P was put off by Letterman's jokes of the name change so he found a way to exit out after the song.

Also the VH1 Fashion Awards when he opened the first ever show with Pussy Control!! Blew me away!!

PurpleSpirit319 said:

In no particular order:

American Bandstand - Even though I was taken back by his responses to Dick Clark's questions, I still remember being mesmerized by him.

Superbowl halftime performance

VH1's Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame's guitar performance of "While My Guitar Weeps".

The Sacrafice of Victor

The Beautiful Experience

Musicology (Acoustic session)

Oprah's interview where he opened up about having two sides (and their both friends)

Septimo - especially the Motherless Child performance

VH1 Honors - where he cried at the end of his performance; always thought I knew why he cried, but now I'm not so sure.

The one that really pulled me in was that VH1 show where he played Endorphinmachine and Interactive while Mayte danced around barefoot. It was like they had descended from another planet, it was all so flawless, weird and amazing.

DAMN!! I FORGOT THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME WHERE HE JAMMED WITH TOM PETTY ON WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS!! HIS GUITAR SOLO WAS OFF THE CHAIN!!!!

Yeah I forgot to mention that also - the performance with Tom Petty of My Guitar Gently Weeps was beyond amazing. Absolutely fantastic! As far as the comments Purple Spirit made about the Super Bowl - I liked it but kept wondering how he wasn't getting electrocuted. I didn't feel like he was selling out just making music people were enjoying and looking damn good doing it! I loved the confidence he projected. What an amazing performer!

SNL 2006 - Fury

That's always gonna be my favorite performance of his.

rob1965 said:

Dortmund 1988 and Parade Tour 1986 (I believe it was recorded in Detroit?), where either Jerome or Prince himself had his birthday (do not exactly remember).

Yes Parade birthday show was on channel 4 in the UK 1986. Prince's Birthday

My #1 favorite is the Under The Cherry Moon premier in Sheridan, WY. Such a small stage!

Martha Quinn "We are in a Purple Haze..." as they cut away. The rest of that performance must be out there right...

Yes This was incredible. This Prince at his space flowerchild phase. Very Ziggy and alien. Damn shame he ditched this whole theme and went for the a mundane, R&B/POP radio vibe for Emancipation.

weirdozmedia said:

The one that really pulled me in was that VH1 show where he played Endorphinmachine and Interactive while Mayte danced around barefoot. It was like they had descended from another planet, it was all so flawless, weird and amazing.