I'm trying to do a list of every song by other artists that Prince has referenced during his career. This includes songs he has covered live and in the studio, incuding unreleased. Also songs he has sampled, or recommended in print (such as 10,000 magazine or ONA booklet) or on the net through the news section on his site. Songs included in NPG radio/ahdio shows are also included.

Here's what I have so far, but I'm sure there are songs that are missing from the list, so if anyone knows any please add them below
The songs in bold are the ones he has actually performed live.

A case of u (Joni Mitchell) - covered on One Nite Alone
A day in the life (Beatles) - ONA live booklet
A night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie)
A quiet observer (Andreas Vollenweider) - 3 Chain O' Gold video
A quiet place (Take 6) - 1989 radio show
A song for you (Leon Russell)
Addicted to love (Robert Palmer)
Africa talks to you "The asphalt jungle" (Sly & the Family Stone)
Again (Lenny Kravitz)
Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers)
Ain't no way (Aretha Franklin)
Ain't that a groove (James Brown)
Ain't too proud to beg (Temptations) - unreleased studio cover
Alabama (John Coltrane)
All blues (Miles Davis) - featured in Beautiful Experience TV show
Also sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss)
American woman (Guess Who / Lenny Kravitz) - Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Angie (Rolling Stones)
Another star (Stevie Wonder)
Are you gonna go my way? (Lenny Kravitz)
Atomic dog (George Clinton) - sampled in 'Style'
Babies makin' babies (Sly & the Family Stone)
Baby I love you (Aretha Franklin) - Beautiful Strange video
Baby baby baby (Aretha Franklin)
Betcha by golly wow (Stylistics) - covered on Emancipation
Beverley Hillbillies theme
Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)
Billie's bounce (Charlie Parker)
Birdland (Weather Report) - ONA live booklet
Black cat (Janet Jackson) - 1989 radio show
Black dog (Led Zeppelin) - ONA live booklet
Blue motel room (Joni Mitchell)
Body heat (James Brown)
Boogie oogie oogie (A Taste Of Honey)
Bootzilla (Bootsy Collins)
Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) - sampled in unreleased Carmen Electra track
Break you off (Roots) - NPGMC news
Breathe and stop (Q-Tip)
Brick house (Commodores) - covered on Mayte's album
Brown sugar (D'Angelo)
Burning down the house (Talking Heads) - 1989 radio show
Bustin' loose (Chuck Brown)
Calling to say goodbye (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
Can you say love? (Derrick Hughes) - NPGMC Ahdio
Car wash (Rose Royce) - live NPG Online Real Audio file
Chain of fools (Aretha Franklin)
Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)
Cico buff (Cocteau Twins) - 1989 radio show
Cissy strut (Meters)
Cleva (Erykah Badu) - NPGMC Ahdio (live version)
Cold sweat (James Brown)
Cookie jar (Fuzzy Haskins) - unreleased studio cover
Crazay (Jesse Johnson) - sampled in 'Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake)'
Crazy fingers (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Crossroads (Tracy Chapman) - 1989 radio show
Dance to the music (Sly & the Family Stone)
Day tripper (Beatles) - unreleased studio version w/ Margie Cox
Deep (N'Dambi) - NPMGC Ahdio
Didn't cha know (Erykah Badu)
Do right woman - do right man (Aretha Franklin) - ONA live booklet
Do that stuff (Parliament) - ONA live booklet
Do yourself a favor (Jesse Johnson) - unreleased studio version
Doin' it to death (JB's)
Don't be cruel (Bobby Brown) - 1989 radio show
Don't call me nigger, whitey (Sly & the Family Stone)
Down home blues (ZZ Hill)
Down to the moon (Andreas Vollenweider) - 1989 radio show
Dr Feelgood (Aretha Franklin) - on Diamonds And Pearls video collection
Dr Funkenstein (Parliament)
Earthquake (Graham Central Station) - covered as 'I'magettin'' on GCS2000
Everyday is a winding road (Sheryl Crow) - covered on Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Everyday people (Sly & the Family Stone) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Fallin' (Alicia Keys)
Family affair (Sly & the Family Stone) - sampled on 'The Voice' by Mavis Staples
Fancy dancer (Commodores)
Fencewalk (Mandrill) - ONA live booklet
Fight the power (Public Enemy)
Fire (Jimi Hendrix) - unreleased studio version w/ Margie Cox
Flamenco sketches (Miles Davis) - 1989 radio show
Flash light (Parliament) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Flirt (Cameo) - ONA live booklet
Fly away (Lenny Kravitz) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Fonky like a (Fonky Bald Heads) - NPGMC Ahdio
For Lilly (Joe Zawinul & Nat Adderley) - ONA live booklet
Freak like me (Adina Howard)
Freddie freeloader (Miles Davis)
Free world (Jesse Johnson) - part of 'A Love Bizarre' live version on NPGMC Ahdio
Funky (Chambers Brothers) - snippet also in 1989 radio show
Funky drummer (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Georgia on my mind (Hoagy Carmichael / Ray Charles)
Get off your ass and jam (Funkadelic)
Get on the good foot (James Brown) - sampled on unreleased George Clinton track
Get on up (Esquires) - used in Carmen Electra's 'Everybody Get On Up'
Get satisfied (George Clinton) - referenced in 'The Exodus Has Begun'
Get up (I feel like being a ) Sex machine (James Brown)
Get up, stand up (Wailers) - referenced in 'Goldnigga' by the NPG
Ghetto heaven (Family Stand)
Gimme some more (JB's)
Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) (Parliament) - snippet in Prince: A Musical Portrait video
God made me funky (Headhunters) - sampled in 'The Sacrifice Of Victor' & '2 Whom It May Concern'
Got to give it up (Marvin Gaye) - unreleased studio version by Madhouse
Gothic metal (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Hair (Graham Central Station) - covered on Chaka Khan's Come 2 My House
Hair (Stanley Clarke) - featured in Reflection room
Happy Birthday
Hard work (????) - Oberhausen soundcheck 2002
Hear my train a coming (Jimi Hendrix)
Heart in my hand (Steeles) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
Heaven must be like this (Ohio Players)
Help me (Joni Mitchell) - referenced in 'The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker'
Hero takes a fall (Bangles)
Hey Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley)
Higher ground (Stevie Wonder)
Higher than high (Tony LeMans) - NPGMC Ahdio
Hold on (En Vogue) - sampled in 'Gett Off'
Honky tonk women (Rolling Stones) - on The Undertaker video
Hot pants (James Brown)
How much is that doggie in the window?
I believe in you (Graham Central Station)
I can't get next to you (Temptations)
I can't make you love me (Bonnie Raitt) - covered on Emancipation
I can't stand myself (When you touch me) (James Brown) - 1989 radio show
I don't want nobody to give me nothing (James Brown)
I feel alright (James Brown)
I got my mind made up (Instant Funk)
I got the feelin' (James Brown)
I know you got soul (Bobby Byrd / Eric B & Rakim)
I love you baby (????) - Oberhausen 2002 soundcheck
I try (Macy Gray)
I want to take you higher (Sly & the Family Stone)
I want you (Marvin Gaye) - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
I want your sex (George Michael)
I wish (Stevie Wonder)
I'll take you there (Staple Singers)
I'm in the mood (John Lee Hooker)
ITP (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
If anybody gets funked up (It's gonna be you) (George Clinton)
If only you knew (Patti LaBelle)
If you let me stay (Terence Trent D'Arby)
If you want me to stay (Sly & the Family Stone) - one One Nite Alone Live box set
Imagine that (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
In the mood (Glenn Miller) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
In time (Sly & the Family Stone)
Intermission (Hornheads) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
It ain't no fun to me (Al Green / Graham Central Station)
It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) (Duke Ellington)
It takes more (Ms Dynamite) - NPGMC news
It takes two (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock)
It's alright (Graham Central Station) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
It's getting funky (The DOC) - 1989 radio show
(It's no secret) What God can do
Jailhouse rock (Elvis Presley) - on The Sacrifice Of Victor video
James Bond theme
Jazz it up (Jazz mix) (CFM Band) - sampled in 'Arrogance'
Jean Pierre (Miles Davis)
Jimi was a rock star (Common) - NPGMC news
Jin-go-lo-ba (Santana)
Joy and pain (Maze)
Jungle boogie (Kool & the Gang)
Jungle jazz (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Jungle strut (Santana)
Just be my lady (Larry Graham) - covered on GCS2000
Just friends (Sunny) (Musiq Soulchild) - on One Nite Alone Live box set
Just my imagination (Temptations)
KC Lovin' (Little Willie Littlefield)
Kain't turn back (Mavis Staples) - sampled on Mayte track
Keep on movin' (Soul II Soul) - 1989 radio show
Killer Joe (Quincy Jones) - ONA live booklet
Knock on wood (Eddie Floyd) - ONA live booklet
La di da di (Doug E Fresh)[b] - on Beautiful Strange video
La la means I love you (Delfonics)[/b] - covered on Emancipation
Ladies night (Kool & the Gang)
Land of 1000 dances (Wilson Pickett) - sampled on a Carmen Electra track
Let her down easy (Terence Trent D'Arby) - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
(Let me be your) Teddy bear (Elvis Presley)
Let's get it on (Marvin Gaye)
Let's stay together (Al Green)
Let's take it to the stage (Funkadelic)
Licking stick (James Brown)
Like a prayer (Madonna) - unreleased studio version
Like a rolling stone (Bob Dylan / Jimi Hendrix) - ONA live booklet
Lines (Eric Leeds)
Little groove maker me (James Brown)
Little miss lover (Jimi Hendrix) - sampled on 'Tick Tick Bang'
Little wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Lively up yourself (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Living for the city (Stevie Wonder)
Lonely teardrops (Jackie Wilson)
Love and anger (Kate Bush) - 1989 radio show
Love and happiness (Al Green)
Love is here to stay (George Gershwin)
Love on top of love (Grace Jones) - 1989 radio show
Love rollercoaster (Ohio Players) - on Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas video
Love supreme (John Coltrane)
Loving you (Minnie Riperton)[/b]
Lullaby (George Gershwin) - ONA live booklet
Lyin' ass bitch (Fishbone) - sampled in 'Billy Jack Bitch'
M'lady (Sly & the Family Stone)
Machine gun (Jimi Hendrix) - used as basis for 'Habibi'
Make it funky (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Make sure you're sure (Stevie Wonder) - ONA live booklet
Martial law (George Clinton)
Mary don't you weep
Material girl (Madonna)
Maybe your baby (Stevie Wonder)
Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
Mighty mighty (Earth, Wind & Fire) - ONA live booklet
Miss you (Rolling Stones)
Mix-master suite (George Clinton)
Moon dance (Andreas Vollenweider) - 1989 radio show
Mother Earth (Rhonda Smith) - NPGMC Ahdio
Mother popcorn (James Brown) - referenced in 'Gett Off'
Mothership connection (Star child) (Parliament)
Movin' (Brass Construction)
Music is the key (JM Silk) - referenced in 'Cindy C'
Music lover (Sly & the Family Stone)
My favorite things (Richard Rogers
New dell inn (Hornheads) - 'referenced in 'Billy Jack Bitch'
New sensation (INXS) - 1989 radio show
Niggaz 4 life (NWA) - sampled in 'Arrogance'
No dia em que eu vim me embora (Caetano Veloso) - ONA live booklet
No diggity (Blackstreet)
No hook (Shaquille O'Neal) - sampled in 'The Good Life (Big City Mix)'
No more rain (In this cloud) (Angie Stone)
No woman, no cry (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
None of your business (Salt N Pepa)
(Not just) Knee deep (Funkadelic)
Now's the time (Charlie Parker) - on Sign 'O' The Times video
OK (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
Ole smokey (Graham Central Station)
On broadway (Drifters / George Benson)
Once in a lifetime (Talking Heads)
One in a million you (Graham Central Station)
One nation under a groove (Funkadelic)
One of us (Joan Osbourne) - covered on Emancipation
Ooh (Mary J Blige)
Ooh baby baby (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
Oops upside your head (Gap Band) - ONA live booklet
Our house (Madness)
Outa space (Billy Preston)
Outside help (BB King)
Oye como va (Tito Puente)
Paint the White House black (George clinton)
Pass the peas (JB's) - on Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas video
Passin' your name (Fonky Bald Heads)
Penitentary Philosophy (Erykah Badu)
People get ready (Impressions)
Peter Gunn theme (Henry Mancini)
Pick up the pieces (Average White Band)
Pink Panther theme (Henry Mancini)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Psychoticbumpschool (Bootsy Collins)
Push & pull (Nikka Costa) on Live At THe Aladdin Las Vegas video
Que sera sera (Doris Day / Sly & the Family Stone)
Real thing (Tony LeMans) - NPGMC Ahdio
Red baron (Billy Cobham) - ONA live booklet
Red clay (Freddie Hubbard) - ONA live booklet
Red hot mama (Parliament)
Red house (Jimi Hendrix) on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Redemption song (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Release yourself (Graham Central Station) - on Rave Un2 The Year 2000 video
Rescue me (Fontella Bass)
Respect (Otis Redding / Aretha Franklin)
River Kwai march
Rock me baby (BB King)
Rock steady (Aretha Franklin) - sampled on 'Daddy Pop'
Rock the boat (Aaliyah) - NPGMC news
Rock wit'cha (Bobby Brown) - 1989 radio show
Round midnight (Miles Davis) - ONA live booklet
Safe in the arms of love (Martika) - lyrics used in 'Open Book'
Salsa & peppers (Jacob Armen) - NPGMC Ahdio
Say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud (James Brown) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Se eu quiser falar com Deus (Gilberto Gil) - ONA live booklet
Send one your love (Stevie Wonder) - ONA live booklet
Sex in my bones (Fonky Bald Heads) - NPGMC track
Sex machine (Sly & the Family Stone)
Shake everything you've got (Maceo Parker)
Shoop (Salt N Pepa)
Shout (Isley Brothers)
Sing a simple song (Sly & the Family Stone)
Singers (Eddie Murphy) - sampled on Carmen Electra track
Skin tight (Ohio Players) - covered as 'ST' on the Carmen Electra CD
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)
Soldier in the army of the Lord
Someday we'll all be free (Donny Hathaway)
Something (Beatles) - ONA live booklet
(Sometimes I feel like a) Motherless child
Somewhere over the rainbow
Soul man (Sam & Dave) - part of the 'Days Of Wild' CD single
Soul sacrifice (Santana)
Soul salsa (Sheila E)
Spanish colored romance (Cindy Blackman) - NPGMC Ahdio
Squib cakes (Tower Of Power) - sampled on 'Release It' and 'Sleep Around'
Stand! (Sly & the Family Stone)
Star Spangled Banner
Start me up (Rolling Stones)
State of the world (Janet Jackson) - 1989 radio show
Stroke (Mazarati)
Stronger than pride (Sade) - 1989 radio show
Summertime (George Gershwin) - intro the the live NPGMC video of 'I could never take the place of your man'
Sunshine of your love (Cream)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Sweet thing (Rufus) - on Beautiful Strange video
Take five (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Take the 'A' train (Duke Ellington) - snippet on the Sign 'O' The TImes video
Talkin' loud and sayin' nothing (James Brown) - on the Beautiful Strange video
Tell me something good (Rufus)
Tell me what it is (Graham Central Station)
Tender surrender (Steve Vai)????
Thank you (Falletinme be mice elf agin) (Sly & the Family Stone)
Thank you for talkin' to me Africa (Sly & the Family Stone)
That's the way of the world (Earth, Wind & Fire) - ONA live booklet
The calling (Santana)
The gambler (Kenny Rogers)
The ghetto (Donny Hathaway)
The girl can't help it (Little Richard)
The Humpty dance (Digital Underground)
The jam (Graham Central Station) - on THe Beautiful Experience TV show
The light (Common)
The oak tree (Morris Day) - mentioned during 'A Love Bizarre' on the Live Romance 1600 video
The payback (James Brown)
The thrill is gone (Roy Hawkins)
The truth (India Arie) - NPGMC video
The way you do the things you do (Temptations)
The way you make me feel (Michael Jackson)
Them changes (Buddy Miles)
There was a time (James Brown)
Things ain't what they used to be (Duke Ellington) - part of 'Blues in c (If I had a harem)' on Lovesexy Live video
Think (About it) (Lyn Collins) - sampled on a Caremen Electra track
Tighten up (Archie Bell & the Drells)
To the teeth (Ani DiFranco) - NPGMC Ahdio
Tom's diner (Suzanne Vega)
Tramp (Lowell Fulsom) - sampled in '7'
Turn the beat around (Gloria Estefan)
Twisted (Annie Ross)
Tyrone (Erykah Badu)
Underneath your clothes (Shakira)
Up for the down stroke (Parliament)
Uptown up (Maceo Parker)
Use me (Bill Withers????)
Villanova junction (Jimi Hendrix)
Voodoo chile (Slight return) (Jimi Hendrix) - snippet inluded in 1989 radio show
Wade in the water
Waiting in vain (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
Walking the dog (Rufus Thomas)
Water (Graham Central Station)
We've been waiting (Graham Central Station) - covered on GCS2000
What can I do? (Ice Cube) - sampled in 'The Good Life (Big City Mix)' and 'Mr Happy'
What have you done for me lately? (Janet Jackson)
What is hip? (Tower Of Power)
What'd I say? (Ray Charles)
What's going on (Marvin Gaye) - ONA live booklet
When the saints go marching in
When will we be paid (For the work we did)? (Staple Singers) - covered as 'When will we b paid' in 2000
Who knows? (Jimi Hendrix)
Whole lotta love (Led Zeppelin) - on Live At THe Aladdin Las Vegas video
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on (Roy Hall) - part of 'Courtin' Time' rehearsal on NPGMC Ahdio
Wishing well (Terence Trent D'Arby)
Woman's gotta have it (Bobby Womack) - covered by Nona Gaye
Yankie Doodle - on the 1985 Live video
You and I (Rick James)
You can make it if you try (Sly & the Family Stone)
You dropped a bomb on me (Gap Band)
You got me (Roots)
You got the love (Rufus)
You're still the one (Shania Twain) - NPG Online Real Audio file in 2000
You're welcome, stop on by (Bobby Womack)
You've got a friend (Carole KIng / James Taylor)
Young, gifted and black (Aretha Franklin) - ONA live booklet

Entire albums
Andreas Vollenweider - everything except the album with Lion in the title - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music (1994)
Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
Donny - The Colored Section - NPGMC news
Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground - NPGMC news
Kim Burrell - Everlasting Life - NPG Online news
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music
Raphael Saddiq - All Hits At The House Of Blues - Ad on NPGMC
Sade - everything - 10,000 magazine Beautiful Music (1994)
Stanley Clarke - 1, 2, To The Bass - U Tell Us forum
[This message was edited Sat Dec 13 17:10:22 PST 2003 by Rioub]

Really? When did he do this one? I love that song!



You're referring to the Ballad of Dorothy Parker, no?



THAT would be interesting... where and when? What did it sound like?



Wow, that would've been great. Sade is cool.



My analyst told me..



Everything? :confused:

Blue motel room (Joni Mitchell)
Really? When did he do this one? I love that song!

1990


Help me (Joni Mitchell)
You're referring to the Ballad of Dorothy Parker, no?

Uh huh


Once in a lifetime (Talking heads)
THAT would be interesting... where and when? What did it sound like?

1982 rehearsal. Never heard it.


Stronger than pride (Sade)
Wow, that would've been great. Sade is cool.

1989 WNPG radio show.



Sade - everything
Everything? :confused:

In 10,000 magazine in 1994 under the heading Beautiful Music several tracks were recommended including everything by Sade. As in all songs.

So when did he do "Let her down easy" (Terence Trent D'Arby)? I remember the 80s medley with "Wishing Well" and I also remember vaguely Prince doing a small part of "If You Let Me Stay" on one bootleg, but I never heard he did "Let her down easy"

Rioub said:

When has Prince referenced 'everything' except one album, 'Dancing With The Lion', by Andreas Vollenwieder?

As far as I am aware, the last reference made to Andreas Vollenweider was when an interviewer stated that they had seen the CD, 'Book Of Roses' in one of the studios at Paisley Park. I'm unaware of any reference any of the albums, post 'Book Of Roses', including the double live CD, 'Kryptos', 'Cosmopoly', and 'Eolian Minstrel'.

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[This message was edited Sun Nov 2 4:17:48 PST 2003 by langebleu]

As far as Erykah Badu is concerned, Prince performed on guitar on 'Penitentiary Philosophy' at the second Celebration in 2001, and a snippet of Badu performing 'Cleva' from the same night at Paisley park was played on one of the 2001 NPGMC ahdio shows.

If I recall correctly, a recommendation for Amel Larrieux's 'Infinite Possibilities' was posted one of the former websites pre-dating her performance at the second Celebration in 2001.

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[This message was edited Sun Nov 2 4:31:37 PST 2003 by langebleu]

what a list what a work... thanks for that. I was thinking about "oye cómo va" song - he's played it several times. I don't know if the title is right or wrong - maybe it's already in your list under a different name.

once more.

He mentioned Wendy and Lisa's entire first album in one of his BedIScream emails that he was sending out in 1996 when Emancipation came out. And he also mentioned specifically Everything But You by Wendy and Lisa in the same email I believe.

I saw prince do You're still the One by Shania Twain at Paisley Park in 99'. That shit was tight. It was pretty funny to see him do that song. You have a great list there.

Serious said:

He didn't do "Let her down easy" live. It's one of the tracks listed as "Beautiful Music" in 10,000 magazine in 1994.

He did "If you let me stay" though?

langebleu said:

This was in 10,000 magazine in 1994 under the heading Beautiful Music.

Rioub said:

Oh, bullsheeeiiit.
Everybody knows Prince wrote that one.

The version of "Twisted" he likely referenced is the one recorded by Joni Mitchell on her Court and Spark album.

Ypu should highlight 'Passin' Her Name' by the Fonky Baldheads.

At the second Celebration concert during 2001 at the Excel Center, St Paul, the Fonky Baldheads did a short opening set.

Prince came out and joined Kip Blackshire on vocals for this song.

You should highlight 'Land of 1000 Dances' - which was performed at the 1987 New Year's Eve Benefit concert at Paisley Park

Rioub said:

Thanx for explaining (and for the nice list as well )
No, he did not do "If you let me stay", just that one line (or maybe just a part of that line). As far as I remember there was a thread on the Org quite some time ago discussing if Prince did that line of the song as an hommage for TTD or in order to ridicule him. I remember pulling out the CD it was on (sadly I don't remember which one it was at the moment, but I think some boxset with some Paisley Park gigs or aftershows) and it was very short, but kinda funny hearing Prince screaming "staaayyy")

How Much Is That Doggy In the Window?" (Lita Roza - charted 1953) - performed as a link during 1986 tour.

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[This message was edited Sun Nov 2 10:20:56 PST 2003 by langebleu]

Didn't he reference 'Again' by Lenny Kravitz, even jokingly singing it at the last Celebration he performed 'Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do' to highlight their similarity?

Serious said:

Well, I guess that still counts

He sang 'Happy Birthday' to Cat

Camden Palace, London 25 July 1988

langebleu said:

Thanks for your input. I'm going to edit the list now with your suggestions. I want to try to make this the most complete list possible, as I've noticed that a list like this is not really available anywhere on the net, or in any of the Uptown books, apart from in one of the early magazines, and that one is way out of date.

Rioub said:

I'm aware he has done "Villanova junction"
I'm sure he's done a steve vai cover of "tender surrender" which sounds similar to villanova junction, u know what i'm talking about? i don't see "tender surrender" up there.

Steve vai had said that he heard a bootleg of it and he gave one of his prised guitar possesions to prince for recognizing him.

heres the guitar given to prince by steve vai: http://www.vai.com/Machin...ar036.html
[This message was edited Sun Nov 2 10:40:08 PST 2003 by Jem]

Rioub said:

No problems - happy to keep suggesting.

Jem said:

I remember that, but I got the impression when it was discussed here a while back that people generally thought it was just Villanove Junction. I've never heard Tender Surrender or the Prince version, so I can't really give an opinion, but I'll put it up there.

Rioub said:

Cool

And he also did the "River Kwai Marsch" back in 86 or 87 at some aftershow

Serious said:

Again:

Camden Palace, London 25 July 1988

langebleu said:

I stand corrected

Serious said:

(just refining the detail - good spot.

'Yankee Doodle' was played on the Purple Rain tour