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Somewhere in Paisley Park or in the Vault is video or Polaroids of Prince with dyed-blonde hair… You know he at least took pictures. Probably making goofy faces.
Legend has it that for the ATWIAD project Prince wanted a clean-break looks wise from The Purple Rain Era and experimented with dyed blonde hair. In fact, that’s why the ATWIAD album cover has the blue cloud Raspberry Beret figure with blonde hair. But supposedly, the dye looked bad and was damaging princes hair so he had to cut it abs wear a wig for the Raspberry Beret video. You know Prince never threw anything away. I’d love to see those photos or videos. [Edited 4/23/25 21:28pm] | |
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exporter? WHAT? |
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ludwig said:
exporter? WHAT? Fixed it! | |
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It would be fabulous to see those pix IF they excist of course. But I follow you, like those funny pix in his biography... Wasn't it Jill Jones uncle who did his hair then? - Yeah, Earl jones... It was a topic here some years ago. -
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) |
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Yes these are at the very top of my list what I want released from the vault. I would pay through the roof for them. Don’t want the music or live shows or after shows . |
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The Estate would only have interest if he dyed his hair purple. | |
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I remember seeing some photos on here at the org(don't know if they were real or not) I'll see if I can find a link
I looked, but could not find them.Maybe it was my imagination. [Edited 4/25/25 4:56am] |
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ExTAFKASoladeo1 said: You know he at least took pictures. Probably making goofy faces. Legend has it that for the ATWIAD project Prince wanted a clean-break looks wise from The Purple Rain Era and experimented with dyed blonde hair. In fact, that’s why the ATWIAD album cover has the blue cloud Raspberry Beret figure with blonde hair. But supposedly, the dye looked bad and was damaging princes hair so he had to cut it abs wear a wig for the Raspberry Beret video. You know Prince never threw anything away. I’d love to see those photos or videos. [Edited 4/23/25 21:28pm] The blond haired ‘blue cloud raspberry beret’ figure on the ATWIAD cover is a representation of the artist Doug Henders who painted - he’s confirmed it a few times in interviews (and to me in correspondence). Also remember that the artwork for the cover was done over the winter prior to its release and presented to Warners in Feb 1985. This was a month or 2 before Prince allegedly died his hair blonde at the end of the Purple Rain tour, around late March/early April 1985. So maybe Prince was inspired to go blonde by the image in the artwork, rather than the artwork being inspired by Prince with blonde hair. The ATWIAD cover is one of the best with a great story. There may or may not be something coming! |
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I never believed this story. It's more likely he cut it too short and hated it, then wore the wig for the RB video, then grew it out in time for the Parade era. | |
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I think that the oil painting is better: https://jimwarren.com/por...world-day/ | |
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I love this thread.....
What about behind the scenes of the Lovesexy cover shoot!
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The story behind Prince’s iconic Lovesexy album cover.
The French fashion photographer and video director Jean-Baptiste Mondino is best-known for his graphically composed, colour-saturated images. His photographs are renowned for their subversive and sexual imagery. He has directed videos for artistes such as Madonna, Neneh Cherry, and Björk.
The image for the cover of Prince’s 1988 ‘Lovesexy’ album is a montage combining close up flower photography with a nude portrait of the artist, who sits on the unfolding petals of a white lily, leaning back against pillowy blooms of pale purple.
Prince poses facing to the left, with the nearer knee bent up, hiding his crotch, and the fingers of his right hand spread across his chest. It’s a teasing parody of a modest gesture of concealment which actually frames his nipple in the angle between thumb and first finger. He’s in his late twenties, slim, with smooth light brown skin. Warm shadows outline his back and thigh. He has a line of chest hair running down to his navel, emphasised by a narrow metal pendant on a chain. His black Afro hair forms a soft cloud pushed back from his face and falling behind his shoulder. Lilac and purple iris petals frame his head.
Prince’s gaze is lifted up and off to the left with a soft, thoughtful expression. The background of lilies and iris evoke the post-war religious iconography which Mondino cites as a source of inspiration.
One final detail adds to the sense of transgression: on the left, sprouting from the centre of an enormous white lily, a single stamen curves in towards Prince’s body, the dark red tip on its green stem impossibly, joyously phallic.
MONDINO: “Before I met him, I was completely under Prince's spell. There was no one above him. Sure there'd been Talking Heads, Devo, and a few others… But Prince! He was doing pop, electro, funk, he sang like an angel, he could play everything, he had the look, he had Wendy and Lisa… I fell head over heels in love with Prince.
He asked me to make a video for him. I spent a week in his company at the time of Lovesexy. We were in the studio in Minneapolis and he said we were leaving the next day for Los Angeles and suggested I do the album cover.
We were supposed to talk and find ideas in the plane. But then we weren't together and so when we got to L.A. he invited me to come find and him at a club that night. And there he was with his Los Angeles entourage, Sheila E, Mike Tyson… As the night went on I began to get anxious, the studio was booked. Later he told me we'd talk over breakfast.
Obviously I didn't sleep a wink. So I went to the essence of a choir boy: the Sistine Chapel. Prince's discourse is pretty apocalyptic, Sign O' The Times, 1999, and yet at the same time kind of tantric, that way he talks about spirituality and sexuality. I did a little drawing during the night, starting from the idea of a nude.
The next morning (the day of the photo-shoot) Mondino suggested to Prince that he would like to shoot him naked. Prince said, “Perfect.”
Mondino shot one roll of Kodak Ektachrome film using a Hasselblad camera. Later that day he met Prince at his hotel and showed him the contact sheets.
“That same night we chose just one Ekta which I took back to Paris with me. The rest of the photos on the contact sheet were destroyed. Then I scanned that photo and used the only machine that could retouch in Paris [the Quantel Paint Box]. It was my friend Kiki Picasso who had the demonstration model.
Prince took a plane and we all found ourselves in the kitchen, the kids horsing around with his bodyguards. In the end Prince destroyed everything, and he said to me, "I think what you did with the flowers was best."
The cover came out and got banned in quite a few States in US whereas the rest of the world were ready for the LoveSezy look. It's a religious image par excellence.
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Jersey Fried Chicken!!!
Autopen Signature |
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For me, The Lovesexy Longbox is the most beautiful piece of art P ever made (visual, not audio). There's got to be more footage! |
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'Lovesexy Longbox' Should be the subtitle to it's eventual SDE! Autopen Signature |
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Right! Like UGTL Long Look |
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Liza Minelli was pissed at Prince for stealing one of her wigs | |
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ROTFLOL "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) |
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rap said:
I think that the oil painting is better: https://jimwarren.com/por...world-day/ Both depictions have their place but Doug Henders’ one seems to fit the vibe of the record much better. Prince obviously thought so (and so did Jill Jones, who in Facebook comment to Doug Henders said, “glad he opted for your studies rather than those Watchtower Mag looking ones”). Notice in Jim Warren’s artwork there is a representation of the ‘obese man hugging a tiger’ that was on the Prince request list for the cover. Doug Henders also originally included a version of that, which was based on a Polaroid Doug took of Big Chick. However, when they fell out, Prince told Doug to remove it - I think by airbrushing out. Unfortunately, Doug has said that he didn’t document the artwork with ‘Chick’ on it - I read an article saying Chick was “in the empty space to the left of Susannah”. [Edited 5/2/25 19:25pm] There may or may not be something coming! |
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Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. |
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laytonian said:
Jill Jones quote about Watchtower Mag looking ones was from Feb 2019 (so not 1985) Facebook comment on ‘Susannah Melvoin Artist’ page. The below hopefully links to it for you - check the comments. https://www.facebook.com/...tid=wwXIfr [Edited 5/4/25 15:39pm] There may or may not be something coming! |
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