You can give the dates and venues if you want (though you don't have to).

First: Stratus (Instrumental, Billy Cobham), IndigO2, 1st August 2007
Last: Girls & Boys, O2 21st Sept 2007

Your turn!

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First here was "Jam of the Year," which isn't too exciting, but the last was "The Love We Make," which seems somehow a perfect parting gift, all things considered...

dustoff said:

First here was "Jam of the Year," which isn't too exciting, but the last was "The Love We Make," which seems somehow a perfect parting gift, all things considered...

What a symbolic last song this must be to have seen...

i will guess Musicology and Purple Rain

Oh! first and last ever!

First: Jam of the Year April 28, 1997 Phoenix AZ


Last: Purple Rain April 2, 2004 Dallas, TX

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First song was The Rainbow Children on the ONA tour. Last was Nothing Compares 2 U at one of the o2 gigs in 2007. Never thought that'd be my last Prince gig. Was so excited when he announced the Piano & Mic shows in the UK, only for them to get cancelled after that terrible mass shooting at that QOTSA gig in Paris.

If we're talking about concerts we attended, opposed to stuff on TV obviously, then:

"Erotic City" - 1988.Nov.06 Los Angeles, CA, USA Memorial Sports Arena

"Alphabet St." - 1988.Nov.06 Los Angeles, CA, USA – Memorial Sports Arena

First: Let's Go Crazy, April 1, 1985, Indianapolis, IN

Last: Free Urself, January 21, 2016, Paisley Park (technically Chopsticks, April 16, 2016, Paisley Park)

motherfunka said:

First: Let's Go Crazy, April 1, 1985, Indianapolis, IN

Last: Free Urself, January 21, 2016, Paisley Park (technically Chopsticks, April 16, 2016, Paisley Park)

Wow!

Thanks for all the responses, looks like we've got many lucky fans in here!

first: Erotic City -Oct 20, 1988

last: I Want To Take You Higher -Feb 7, 2011

donnyenglish said:

awesome topic...

FIRST: NYC 1986 Parade Hit n Run Tour: "Around the World in a Day"

LAST: Oakland Piano & Mic Tour: "Adore" (after an incredible run of encores that ended with him doing I Wanna Be Your Lover, Thieves In The Temple It, Do Me Baby, Adore... it was unreal

I miss him so much but what a way to leave us

Good topic.I'll christen the D&P and W2Aus tours on this thread:

1st - Thunder - D&P tour - June 21st 1992 - London

Last - Days of Wild - W2Aus - May 22nd 2012 - Syd (not the last song of the gig. In typical Prince fashion did a further encore after my last train left)

And I just realised, almost 20 years exactly between 1st and last

Sign of the times - Rotterdam 1987

Sometimes it snows in April - Budapest 2011...

First
My Name Is Prince

Last
Bambi

First: Thunder (02/06/1992 Cologne)

Last. Partyup (14/07/2013 Montreux)

donnyenglish said:

Uptown in 1981 Free Urself in 2016 I suspect that there are not many on this website with that long of a span.

You're right I don't think there is... I know there's an orger who saw him in 1979 but I am not sure if they saw him in the later part of his career.

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

awesome topic...

FIRST: NYC 1986 Parade Hit n Run Tour: "Around the World in a Day"

LAST: Oakland Piano & Mic Tour: "Adore" (after an incredible run of encores that ended with him doing I Wanna Be Your Lover, Thieves In The Temple It, Do Me Baby, Adore... it was unreal

I miss him so much but what a way to leave us

The third mention of 'Around The World In A Day' so far He also started one memorable aftershow in London (2007) with this song (I believe it was the only time he played it that Summer), which I didn't recognise at first because the sound that came on was so eerie and different from what we had heard at the other shows... It immediately set the tone to a very special night which I will never forget.

Thank you for all your posts, I am sure it must feel emotional to remember the last song, but please keep them coming...

CherryMoon57 said:

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

awesome topic...

FIRST: NYC 1986 Parade Hit n Run Tour: "Around the World in a Day"

LAST: Oakland Piano & Mic Tour: "Adore" (after an incredible run of encores that ended with him doing I Wanna Be Your Lover, Thieves In The Temple It, Do Me Baby, Adore... it was unreal

I miss him so much but what a way to leave us

The third mention of 'Around The World In A Day' so far He also started one memorable aftershow in London (2007) with this song (I believe it was the only time he played it that Summer), which I didn't recognise at first because the sound that came on was so eerie and different from what we had heard at the other shows... It immediately set the tone to a very special night which I will never forget.

Yep, 14th September am. Was there, great night. Although technically the show opened with an instrumental of The Dance.

According to princevault.com that show was the very last time he performed it live!

TheEnglishGent said:

CherryMoon57 said:

The third mention of 'Around The World In A Day' so far He also started one memorable aftershow in London (2007) with this song (I believe it was the only time he played it that Summer), which I didn't recognise at first because the sound that came on was so eerie and different from what we had heard at the other shows... It immediately set the tone to a very special night which I will never forget.

Yep, 14th September am. Was there, great night. Although technically the show opened with an instrumental of The Dance.

According to princevault.com that show was the very last time he performed it live!

Yes you are right, how could I forget! I guess my memory has been somewhat erased by that other 'dance' he had invited me for at the end of the show...