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Article - Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History The following article entitled "Prince's Epic 'Purple Rain' Tour: An Oral History" was published today by Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.c...ry-w476429 | |
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Working for Prince was not for the faint of heart. But then again, it emboldened those who did it. Music emboldened him and I think maybe he wanted that for everyone else (his fans, himself, his bandmembers) . There is a purity to that. It wasn't selfless (he was the star who got most of the attention) but it was still about inclusion, connection, purity and intergrety for him. Maybe, he was trying to be a loving tyrant (like he said) . It is kind of amazing that he was so young when he was making all these decisions and leading a band.
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Did you see this article about the Beatiful Ones today. Notice that the media is continuing to discount what Prince said about this song and notice the last line in the article.
Prince’s Girlfriend Inspires ‘The Beautiful Ones,’ But Which One?: 365 Prince Songs in a YearCommon knowledge has long held that “The Beautiful Ones” was written for Prince’s former girlfriend Susannah Melvoin. Engineer Susan Rogers, for one, has confirmed it. The timeline certainly fits: Susannah, the twin sister of Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin, was seeing someone else when she met Prince in May 1983. But even Melvoin has admitted that she isn’t completely sure about the genesis of “The Beautiful Ones.”
...... “We were very attached,” Susannah said in Let’s Go Crazy, “and he spoke a lot through music. He would come and play me something, and I knew perfectly well it was about me.” But not this time. Instead, “The Beautiful Ones” blends his initial feelings about a painful real-life split with the invented story arc for Apollonia. “It’s not about somebody human that I’m looking at right now,” he told Ebony. “It wouldn’t have worked if it was. This was literally for that character.
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Melvoin: Our soundchecks would start at like 2 in the afternoon and we'd play until 5. Each person would have to keep running out to get hair and makeup done. We wouldn't leave to go back to the hotel after soundcheck. We had to stay there. The show would go on at 8.
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Already posted about this in the morning...
THREAD here:
http://prince.org/msg/7/443850 | |
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http://prince.org/msg/7/443850
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Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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this dupe.