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Sign o' the Times film As many of you will know, the following songs were omitted from the released film: Girls & Boys (following Housequake), Let’s Go Crazy, When Doves Cry, Purple Rain, 1999 (following If I Was Your Girlfriend), and Kiss (following Forever In My Life) are missing from the film.
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They were not omitted. They were never filmed. Sign of the times was mostly recorded inside paisley park as a stand alone performance. The songs you talk about were on his tour yes, and in rotterdam they only used forever in my life, I believe, in the concert film. They filmed each song separately in paisley park. It wasn’t truly a full integral concert film, unlike LiveSexy from Dortmund and Purple Rain 1985 or Parade birthday concert. So I don’t think the full European concert was ever filmed inside Paisley Park for the movie. Just the songs as we know them. My 2cents. “ Originally conceived to be filmed at the end of the tour in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium, most of the shots in the film are actually re-shot at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, MN, where the concert film was lip-synced to audio recorded in Rotterdam and Antwerp.“ |
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According to Prince Vault, they were, and you can see some snippets in the video for "U Got the Look" unless I am confused/mistaken, and they are clips from live shows? | |
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. PV says no such thing. . These tracks were most likely filmed in Rotterdam and Antwerp, however that footage was unusable. I'd find it unlikely that these tracks were filmed at PP and then omitted from the final film: I bet by then Prince had already decided on the format and length of the film and never bothered spending time and money on filming "the hits". . The inclusion of LRC (the only non-SOTT track) feels inevitable simply from a "concert flow" POV. .
. U Got The Look was filmed much earlier in the tour. Granted, it is not impossible that it contains footage from later gigs as well as PP, considering it was released around 20 July and the PP sessions started on 18 July, but I think it is far more likely the video was finished a while before that. |
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