Prince - Purple Rain
Trevor Nelson goes track-by-track through the album that turned Prince into a worldwide star, recalling the era via archive footage and memories of Prince's engineer Susan Rogers.
In the summer of 1984, Prince released Purple Rain - his sixth studio album, which accompanied his film of the same name. This combination transformed Prince into a worldwide star.
Having released five albums, Prince was already successful in his home market of America, but here in the UK, the single 1999 had been his only hit, reaching the Top 30 in 1983. But the Purple Rain album marked a turning point, with its singles When Doves Cry, Let鈥檚 Go Crazy and Purple Rain becoming classics. The Purple Rain film offered a visual introduction to Prince in an era 鈥� as remembered by Trevor 鈥� when there were frustratingly few outlets on British TV that showed music videos.
As well as archive footage from 大象传媒 Two's Whistle Test and Prince at the 1985 British Music Industry Awards, Professor Susan Rogers of Berklee Music College talks about what it was like to work with Prince in specially recorded recollections. Susan joined Prince in the summer of 1983 as his engineer, and one of her first tasks was installing a mixing console into a leased Minnesota warehouse, for the purpose of turning it into a rehearsal space 鈥� however the songs Let's Go Crazy and Computer Blue which appear on Purple Rain are the versions they recorded there.
Alongside the breakthrough status of Purple Rain in 1984, Trevor reminds us of Prince鈥檚 links to other artists around that time, sometimes via pseudonyms which made the extent of his talent and work harder to track. And there鈥檚 also the matter of his songs with explicit lyrics, that became part of an infamous list and resulted in the American music industry agreeing to instigate content warning labels on future releases.
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When Doves Cry
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Let's Go Crazy
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Computer Blue
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Computer Blue ("Hallway Speech" Version)
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