I'll Start:

For me, I'd say maybe 36 years or so.

Y'all??

sro100 said:

I'll Start:

For me, I'd say maybe 36 years or so.

Y'all??

Since about 88 actively. Passively it was around 85 I reckon.

I still have my original "Soft and Wet" bought when it was released but my major leap into Prince came in 1983.

Since 83

since like 2014ish

1981 Controversy

30 seconds into soft & wet in 1978.

1979


Yes, I am old.

LovePaisley said:

1979. When I couldn't for the life of me figure out the girl's voice on that cool new song, I Wanna be Your Lover.

That was the song that first exposed me to Prince and I had the same response. However, I didn't have much appreciation for him beyond the hits until the early 90's. Some would say I didn't become a true fan until about 9 or 10 years ago. That's when I first heard the boots and as most of you know, you don't truly know Prince until you've heard the unreleased music. That said, I haven't heard anything he did post Lotus Flower. Actually, I heard Planet Earth (?) once and... I figured I'd dig into the old stuff and catch up with what he was doing later. Of course, that never came to be.

Since 1983 for me

Since the late 90s. I may have already owned a couple of Prince's albums prior as I was listening to all kinds of artists and genre's throughout the 90s (I was born mid 80s so I was pretty young and trying to consume as much music as possible).

It's wasn't until 97/98ish that I became a proper fan and started collecting as many albums / singles / videos as I could. 'Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic' was the first album I bought that was brand new out.

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1979..Prince wanted to be my Lover...I couldnt resist

1979/80 - About as early as possible in Australia and this was only through after midnight music shows

Earliest clear Prince memory was about 2000/'01 when I was 13/14; bought my first Prince album (The Hits/B-Sides) in about '09/'10 when I would've been 22/23; became a slightly more committed (but still fairly casual) fan in about '14 (at 27) when a few friends passed digital copies of his discography and the Vanity 6/Apollonia 6 albums to me; only became a serious fan from '18 (at 31).

It took me long enough, lol.

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The first time I have seen him was in the video for Little Red Corvette. I found him interesting and unusual.
I became a fan when Purple Rain got big and his music was everywhere. My brother bought that record and it really changed the way I listened to music. Especially When Doves Cry and The Beautiful Ones were so different from anything else I have heard before. My brother forbade me playing his records but I still couldn t stop hearing those songs when he was not around.

I consider myself a lifelong fan since then although with short breaks inbetween. I was very disappointed in Graffiti Bridge and his Jehova preaching from 2000-2004 turned me off for a while too. In my opinion Princes best period was in the mid 80s and the mid90s.

Besides Prince I also listen to a lot of other music.

Athough I remember hearing songs from 1999 on the radio, I got hooked during Purple Rain. Started to seriously collect his records in the early 90's.

What is a fan?

Or rather: where do I start counting?

Does listening to the tapes recorded from the radio count?

Does buying first CD's count?

Does attending a first concert count?

Does watching a first show on TV count?

Does attending a first aftershow count?

Or does, after having (heard) all albums, and still liking them all count?

1979. Sometimes it seems like only yesterday...sometimes it seems so long ago it was someone elses life.

udo said:

What is a fan?

Or rather: where do I start counting?

Does listening to the tapes recorded from the radio count?

Does buying first CD's count?

Does attending a first concert count?

Does watching a first show on TV count?

Does attending a first aftershow count?

Or does, after having (heard) all albums, and still liking them all count?

A fan is when you consider yourself a fan. Only you have that answer.

Maybe when you just couldn't believe he good he was?

We could always look up Webster's dictionary and find the definition. But ---

I know I became a FAN when I just couldn't believe he was saying all those thing that I thought and I just couldn't believe those feelingsa and those raw ripping emotions and screams were coming out of the speakers.

Since '83 I think. One of my earliest memories is seeing the 1999 video.