As a child in Detroit I went through alot. I found solace in my room just listening to music. So one night Im in my bed with a big ass pair of headphones on (it was 1981 so give me a break ) and I hear this voice singing Do Me Baby at 9 I had no idea what the hell he was talking about, but the voice was so beautiful I instantly fell in love. A few weeks later at the Wrecka Stow I actually saw his face on an album cover and it was love at first site and it was on then I was 9 then and now Im 44 and he is gone and I still his music. And that my friends is a beautiful thing

nursev said:

In 2008 with 20 years when i saw his live performance of Somewhere Here On Earth with Jay Leno.

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soladeo1 said:

Me. 1984. Late summer. Brunswick, Maine. I was a blonde, nerdy 11 year old boy. For my birthday I had just received a $69 dual radio, tape deck, and alarm. One morning I set it to go off. Like instructed, the next morning it went off set to the local Portland Top 40 radio station, W.I.G.Y. The music that awoke me was so amazing, so audacious, so pulsating with life that I prayed the DJ would announce at the end who it was. My prayers were answered: "...and that's the latest from Prince and The Revolution with they're hit song Let's Go Crazy..." I lifelong love affair was born. What was yours??

Aww how sweet that Prince woke u up

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nursev said:

As a child in Detroit I went through alot. I found solace in my room just listening to music. So one night Im in my bed with a big ass pair of headphones on (it was 1981 so give me a break ) and I hear this voice singing Do Me Baby at 9 I had no idea what the hell he was talking about, but the voice was so beautiful I instantly fell in love. A few weeks later at the Wrecka Stow I actually saw his face on an album cover and it was love at first site and it was on then I was 9 then and now Im 44 and he is gone and I still his music. And that my friends is a beautiful thing

That's beautiful. And yes, Do Me, Baby is beautiful. I didn't know what it was about the first time I heard it but I thought it was beautiful too.

indeed it is a beautiful song

2006. I loved his voice but when I saw a picture of him, it was love at first sight and he became husband #2

DarlingKris said:

2006. I loved his voice but when I saw a picture of him, it was love at first sight and he became husband #2

the pic always sealed the deal

Elvie said:

You guys are making me sick with all these romantical, soul inspiring discoveries of Prince.


All I got is I was a 13 year old girl and he looked liked this...

Not really all that complicated.

It wasn't for a couple of years until all the deep, inspiring soul searching stuff started happening for me.

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214 said:

In 2008 with 20 years when i saw his live performance of Somewhere Here On Earth with Jay Leno.

A newbie! God bless U. I need to check out that performance before it's taken down by Prince's phantom attorney army!

Thanks, God bless you too.

In my mind I was older but I just looked it up on wikipedia so I know I must have only been 11 - I remember being entranced by the music videos for Gett Off, Diamonds and Pearls, and Cream. I just loved them. I thought the women dancers in the videos were so beautiful and the sentiment of Diamonds and Pearls just made me melt. The sexual stuff honestly went over my head at that age, I just thought they were beautiful to watch. I guess at 11 I wanted to grow up to be one of those beautiful women that would inspire a song like Diamonds and Pearls .

[True confession: For years - and please remember this was the early 90s and we had no internet and very limited access to goss from the USA - I mistakenly believed that Prince was married to his backup SINGER Rosie Gaines and not his backup dancer Mayte! I used to think it was really cool that he wrote all those songs about her and I was really upset when I heard they split up! I thought that was why she stopped singing with him lol!]

1984. My sister noticed that the only songs I sung along to on the radio were Prince, so she bought me Purple Rain. That was soon followed by 1999. I used to listen to those two albums (on tape) right though in bed at night before I went to sleep. Next came ATWIAD, the start of a lifetime (until now) of buying every Prince album as soon as it came out. Normally I was a bit disappointed by each new album, it took time to grow on me and was always very new, very different. But in time each album grew to be a favourite. Later on I filled in the earlier albums, right the way back. So many great songs and attached memories.

I was a senior in High School in 1979 and he was singin I Wanna Be Your Lover to only me

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I was a sophomore in H.S. I believe. Around '94. I was familiar with the album and dug it a bunch. Was very familiar with the batman sdtk as well.

... I smirked when I saw 'Vanessa Bartholomew' come out to be introduce with a little black and gold cardboard ...


...then some crazy dude with a tight black flowy bodysuit and some nutty pixie haircut was rocking out with a shaped guitar and some UNDENIABLY hot Puerto Rican broad with a beautifuly gorgeous ass in a tight white bodysuit was shaking said ass and dancing and head banging...crazy outrageous...then rainbow wigged dancerrs are running around the arena and dude is STILL rocking and screaming even louder...sounding NOTHING like let's go crazy, raspberry Beret, lemon crush, party man OR Sexy M.F....completely new and I utterly loved it...never heard it before but still feeling like I'd always known the songs somehow.....


...I dug him b4....but with that performance I fell in love, not in a gay way...but in adoration?... The hook had been around...but this set the hook in. I was mesmorized. I had taped it and must have watched it over and over 50 times that night...it was insane. My little brain had exploded all over my little room.
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gilliaj said:

BobGeorge909 said:

I was a sophomore in H.S. I believe. Around '94. I was familiar with the album and dug it a bunch. Was very familiar with the batman sdtk as well.

... I smirked when I saw 'Vanessa Bartholomew' come out to be introduce with a little black and gold cardboard ...


...then some crazy dude with a tight black flowy bodysuit and some nutty pixie haircut was rocking out with a shaped guitar and some UNDENIABLY hot Puerto Rican broad with a beautifuly gorgeous ass in a tight white bodysuit was shaking said ass and dancing and head banging...crazy outrageous...then rainbow wigged dancerrs are running around the arena and dude is STILL rocking and screaming even louder...sounding NOTHING like let's go crazy, raspberry Beret, lemon crush, party man OR Sexy M.F....completely new and I utterly loved it...never heard it before but still feeling like I'd always known the songs somehow.....


...I dug him b4....but with that performance I fell in love, not in a gay way...but in adoration?... The hook had been around...but this set the hook in. I was mesmorized. I had taped it and must have watched it over and over 50 times that night...it was insane. My little brain had exploded all over my little room.
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It appears we have a lot in common!

The moment that Computer Blue began when I first put on Purple Rain.

I was on the founding staff of my university's student-run radio station in the '70s (damn I feel old recalling this story - I'm actually just a few months older than P, LOL). This radio station had been operating about a year and one afternoon prior to going on the air, I was alone in the studio preparing my show for the same night. The "treasure box" as I liked to call it arrived ... the weekly shipment of demos and first albums by new musicians. Among the albums was Prince "For You," and there was something about his face (probably those eyes) on the album's cover that made me randomly choose to listen to it while finishing some pre-show work. I remember hearing his voice for the very first time and how blown away I was by his songs. I felt like I had just "discovered" someone special and could hardly wait until we were on the air and I could share this talented new artist and play the first Prince song from the first Prince album to ever air at my college - "Soft and Wet." I remember telling my listeners "This is Prince and this is a song from his new album - and he's going to be a superstar one day. Of course, back in those days, we religiously poured over album liner notes for background info. (and the much awaited copies of our subscriptions to Billboard, Rolling Stone and other industry periodicals). I remember how surprised I was to read P. played all the instruments, wrote the songs, music and produced his very first album at 18. I fell in love with him that afternoon, 38 years ago.

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1981: This beautifull tall blond girl took me to her room and played this great 7" called Controversy.

I was 8, the combination was great, at that moment i wished i was 18....

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DarlingKris said:

2006. I loved his voice but when I saw a picture of him, it was love at first sight and he became husband #2

the pic always sealed the deal

I saw a pic first then I heard the music

The deal was already sealed way before I heard anything

First, I heard "Raspberry Beret" on the 80's channel on Sirius XM radio in early 2010. I had very limited access to the internet so it's the only Prince song I heard for months.

Then I saw the last 30 minutes of Purple Rain that I DVR'd from VH1 later in the summer of 2010. I was 12, had always been a weird kid into 80's music, I Would Die 4 U and Baby I'm A Star really caught my attention. I don't know when or what moment happened in which I thought to myself " Okay, Prince is my favorite!" but those two I mentioned above is what started it all

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