i was reading the liner notes to diamonds and pearls, and prince mentions someone named laurianne. anyone have any idea who this is?
i remember in '96 between chaos and disorder and emancipation, i read a tracklist for a "new" album posted in the uptown news section that supposedly had a track called laurianne. the album was untitled, and i always assumed it was a fake. it had tracks like pain, when the lights go down, people without, strange thing happened in puerto rico.
anyone else remember this? any info on this track, laurianne, or the person>?

If I'm not mistaking, I think laurianne was either Diamond or Pearl, the dancers.

Laurianne is not a fake . Tracked by Prince , Sonny and Michael B on january 2nd 1993.

The songs exist in 2 versions , 1 being the original recording described as "a guitar rave-up" by Bland.

The other was constructed after making a new master tape , on wich Prince scrapped everything except 4 Bland's drum track b4 adding new instrumentation.

jimipaisley said:

have you heard it? what's it like?

I like this title

jimipaisley said:

Those January 2nd sessions were all "Power Trio" numbers, bass, drums and guitar. "Dolphin" was also like this originally...stripped down and raw.

"Laurianne" is the sister song to "Zannalee".