There have been many comments here about the fact that Prince seemed to like the number seven, and there was speculation about why he liked it. I previously had not noticed this affinity that he had for the number seven, so I found the comments about it very interesting. However, I've long noticed that there is another number that seemed to have a special appeal for Prince: the number seventeen.

It's mentioned at least four times in his work:

The B-side of the "When Doves Cry" single, titled "17 Days."

In the Time's third album, Ice Cream Castle, the track "Chili Sauce," in which Morris Day, at one point, says, "Now stop me when I get to seventeen."

In the Around the World in a Day album, the song "Tamborine," in which Prince, at one point, sings, "I don't care for one-night stands with trolly cars that juggle seventeen."

In the Diamonds and Pearls album, the song "Live 4 Love," in which Prince, at one point, sings, "Kicked out of the house at age seventeen."

Aside from these songs, there's one more connection between Prince and seventeen. Prince released the album 1999 in nineteen eighty-two. Seventeen years beyond the year nineteen eighty-two was the year nineteen ninety-nine. Seventeen years beyond the year nineteen ninety-nine was the year twenty sixteen, the year in which Prince died.

Does anyone here know of any other songs of his in which he mentions the number seventeen? I'd like to know. Thanks, everyone!

Well the song 1999. If you add 9 +9=18-1 is ....17..and bobs your uncle

Partyman.

"In the west, seventeen horns playing"

cudnpete said:

^^^Poetic Justice

"17 mountains stood so high..."

17.the madhouse song on 1800newfunk

Love Machine,written by Prince performed by The Time.'17 times from the neck down'.