Around the World in a Day (Album)
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| Prince and The Revolution's studio album | |||||||||
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February 19, 1984 - December 24, 1984 |
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LP, CD |
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R&B , funk , pop , psychedelic rock , rock |
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9 |
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42:34 |
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Sunset Sound ( Los Angeles ) |
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Around the World in a Day ( English for In a day around the world ) is the seventh studio album by the American musician Prince . He took it on with his companion band The Revolution and released it on April 22, 1985 on the Warner Bros. Records label and for the first time on his then newly founded own music label Paisley Park Records.
The album belongs to the genre R&B , funk , pop , psychedelic rock and rock . Prince also uses instruments that he hadn't used on his previous albums, such as oud and darbuka . The collaboration with other musicians was more intensive for him than before and in the following years of his music career. The siblings Jonathan and Susannah Melvoin and Sheila E. are guest musicians .
From a commercial point of view, Around the World in a Day was able to achieve number one on the US album hit parade, but not repeat the international success of Purple Rain the year before. Music critics rated the album differently; the number of praise and negative reviews were roughly balanced. For the first time in his career, Prince did not tour the album.
Emergence
Prince was at the height of his commercial success with the success of his previous album Purple Rain and the film of the same name in 1984. Expectations were correspondingly high when he presented the new album Around the World in a Day to his record company Warner Bros. Records in Los Angeles , California in early February 1985 . At the presentation of the album his father John L. Nelson (* 1916; † 2001) and the musician Joni Mitchell were present as guests. However, the reaction of the Warner employees to the new album was subdued. Saxophonist Eric Leeds, who has played with Prince regularly in the band since 1985, said: "As Prince later told me, he could tell from the faces of the Warner people that it was not the right thing".
On the album Around the World in a Day , Prince's collaboration with other musicians was more intense than before and in the following years of his music career. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman not only sang the backing vocals , but also contributed creative musical ideas to the album. In addition, the musicians David Coleman - Lisa Coleman's brother - and Wendy Melvoin's brother Jonathan Melvoin exerted influence on the album. David Coleman had studied the culture of the Middle East and together with Jonathan Melvoin owned various international instruments such as oud , darbuka and finger cymbals. The instruments mentioned were mainly used in the title track of the album Around the World in a Day . Prince's father John L. Nelson also worked on the album, although his contribution cannot be precisely defined. Various sources report that Prince only mentioned his father as a songwriter on two songs on the album to support him financially. Susannah Melvoin - Wendy Melvoin's twin sister - is also featured on the album Around the World in a Day ; Prince had a relationship with her from 1984 to 1986.
Most of the album was completed by Prince before his Purple Rain tour began in November 1984. His first song was on February 19, 1984, Pop Life in Los Angeles in the Sunset Sound studio. The following day he added overdubs and stringed instruments . On March 9, Prince played an instrumental version of Paisley Park on Sunset Sound , which he reworked on both March 19 and April 19, together with Pop Life .
America recorded Prince on July 23rd at the Flying Cloud Drive warehouse studio in Eden Prairie , Minnesota and recorded a maxi-single of it on August 5th - again on Sunset Sound - which is 21:46 minutes long. Prince recorded the track She's Always in My Hair , which serves as the B-side of the single from Raspberry Beret , at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse on August 15th. There he played the title track Around the World in a Day a day later . Originally, Prince Raspberry Beret recorded on April 27, 1982 in Sunset Sound, but on September 7, 1984, he reworked the piece in the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse and wrote a new version that was eventually released. On September 10, Prince recorded a version of Paisley Park with vocals at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse and two days later he added stringed instruments. Raspberry Beret added Prince vocals and stringed instruments on September 13th and remixed the title track on September 16th . The piece Tamborine took Prince on September 27, 1984 Flying Cloud Drive warehouse.
Prince recorded Condition of the Heart on October 9th on Sunset Sound and reworked it with Paisley Park on October 11th. On October 14th he mixed the piece Around the World in a Day again, this time Prince again working in the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse. The Ladder recorded Prince on October 31st at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The last song Prince recorded on December 6th was Temptation at Richfield Coliseum , Ohio, and reworked it the following day in the Capitol Records Building, also in Los Angeles. On December 24th, he recorded the Temptation monologue , added Tamborine overdubds, shortened The Ladder and finished all album recordings. Prince carried out all of the work in the Saint Paul Civic Center Arena in a mobile recording studio that accompanied his ongoing Purple Rain tour by truck. On the same day, Prince drove from Saint Paul to Chanhassen , Minneapolis (about 50 kilometers away) and completed the album Around the World in a Day in his private recording studio Kiowa Trail Home Studio .
All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince and The Revolution , whereby the influence of Prince's accompanying band can be assessed as minor; only in the song America the members of The Revolution are mentioned as co-composers. Prince's father John L. Nelson and David Coleman are named as co-composers of the title piece. John L. Nelson is also mentioned on the song The Ladder . After Prince's death in 2016, keyboardist Dr. Fink about the making of the album: "This record, Around the World in a Day , names Prince and The Revolution as the author, but first and foremost it was Prince, along with Wendy and Lisa". Fink himself, as well as drummer Bobby Z. and bassist Brown Mark “weren't really involved”.
In 1985 Prince founded the Paisley Park Records label with the financial contribution of Warner Bros. Records. The liner notes from Around the World in a Day state that it was the first Prince album to be released on this label, but that was not the case; It was not until January 1986 that Prince made his first recordings in the Paisley Park Studio.
For the first time in the 1980s, Prince refused to tour an album release . However, he presented some songs from the Around the World in a Day album live on his parade tour in 1986 .
Design of the cover
Doug Henders (* 1957) was responsible for the cover design , who was also responsible for painting the LP inner sleeve of the Purple Rain album. When Prince began work on Around the World in a Day , he gave Henders a list of 15 elements that Henders should incorporate into the album cover design. Henders then created a detailed painting on which Prince and some of the band members of The Revolution and other people - in a surrealistic representation - are gathered around a pool with a ladder protruding into the sky. In the background, a hilly landscape describes the contours of a woman lying on her back, camouflaged by a multicolored collage . The record cover of the LP was designed as a gatefold cover, and the lyrics of the individual songs from Around the World in a Day are printed both on the LP edition and in the CD booklet.
music
Musical style
As with his previous albums, Prince devoted himself to music styles on the album Around the World in a Day that he had not used before. The album is mainly instrumented with real musical instruments - electronic instruments such as synthesizers or the Linn LM-1 drum computer play a subordinate role. For example , Prince uses cello , cymbals and instruments from the Middle East such as oud and darbuka . As a result, the album sometimes sounds like psychedelic rock , paired with a pop-rock sound of the 1960s. Music styles such as pop , rock and funk can be found in the songs Raspberry Beret , America or Pop Life , for example .
Lyrics and singing
In the lyrics of the album Around the World in a Day , Prince no longer deals exclusively with sexual content. Only the song Raspberry Beret is about a girl who is seduced by Prince . The title track and the song Paisley Park , on the other hand, deal with, among other things, belief in the Promised Land , and The Ladder deals with religious issues. Spiritual themes appear in the piece Temptation ; Among other things, Prince simulates a conversation with God in the song , which he interprets himself with a different voice. The song Pop Life is a clear statement against drug use , and in the song America Prince describes, among other things, fears of nuclear war .
In addition to his characteristic falsetto singing , Prince also uses lower voices on the album Around the World in a Day . Through the use of electronic devices, his voice sometimes sounds alien, such as his interpretation of God in the song Temptation .
List of titles and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| 1 | Around the World in a Day | Prince , John L. Nelson, David Coleman | 3:27 |
| 2 | Paisley Park | Prince | 4:40 |
| 3 | Condition of the Heart | Prince | 6:48 |
| 4th | Raspberry Beret | Prince | 3:31 |
| 5 | Tamborine | Prince | 2:46 |
| 6th | America | Prince and The Revolution | 3:42 |
| 7th | Pop life | Prince | 3:41 |
| 8th | The Ladder | Prince, John L. Nelson | 5:26 |
| 9 | Temptation | Prince | 8:18 |
Around the World in a Day was released on April 22, 1985 in the USA and Great Britain, the album was released on vinyl , compact cassette and compact disc . Prince's backing band The Revolution consisted of the following five members in 1985:
- Bobby Z. (real name: Robert B. Rivkin) - drums
- Brown Mark (real name: Mark Brown) - electric bass
- Dr. Fink (civil: Matthew Robert Fink) - Keyboard
- Lisa Coleman - keyboard
- Wendy Melvoin - acoustic guitar
Single releases
Four singles extracted from the album: Raspberry Beret was released on May 15, 1985, the B-side song is called She's Always in My Hair and was previously unreleased; the lyrics are about Jill Jones . The second single Paisley Park was released on May 24, 1985 only in Europe and Australia, She's Always in My Hair again serves as the B-side .
On July 10, 1985, the third single Pop Life was released. In the lyrics of the previously unpublished B-side Hello, Prince expresses his anger at paparazzi . America was released on October 2, 1985. The single was not released worldwide and the B-side is the ballad Girl , which was also previously unreleased.
At the end of 1985, the limited promo double LP His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club was released in Japan only , on which three of the four single releases can be heard in the maxi version . In April 2019 brought The Prince Estate (dt .: The Princeton discount ) the double LP as republication out again.
Music videos
With Raspberry Beret , Paisley Park and America, Prince released three music videos for songs from the album Around the World in a Day . Prince recorded the music video for Raspberry Beret on June 5, 1985 in Los Angeles , California at Studio Instrument Rentals (SIR); Apart from himself and his companion band The Revolution, there are about 50 dancers in the video. Furthermore, is Pat Smear with long dreadlocks to see. The performance is mixed with a cartoon interpretation of the lyrics by Raspberry Beret .
In the music video for the single Paisley Park , neither Prince nor any of the band members can be seen. Instead, a group of children dressed in psychedelic clothes is shown playing in a park. America is recorded as a live version; On October 27, 1985 Prince played with his band at the time a spontaneous concert in Nice at the Théâtre de Verdure, as he was busy at that time in France with filming on Under the Cherry Moon . The concert was only announced on a local radio station and took place in front of around 200 spectators. In the ten-minute version, Prince can be seen playing drums, among other things. Often, however, only a four-minute version of the video is shown, in which the named scenes do not appear. Director of music videos was Prince. No music video was made for the single Pop Life .
Cover versions
Occasionally musicians recorded cover versions of songs from the album Around the World in a Day ; for example Hindu Love Gods interpreted the song Raspberry Beret (1990), and Dead or Alive (1999) and Soulwax (2000) Pop Life . The piece Paisley Park was re-recorded by Johnny Goudie (1998) and Richard Swift (2006). Condition of the Heart covered in 2006 by Susanna Wallumrød and in 2009 by Guillaume De Chassy feat. Daniel Yvinec .
After Prince's death in April 2016, Sheila E. recorded a new version of America in June 2017, on the occasion of the musician's 59th birthday , in which the song Free (1982) can also be heard in phases . Candy Dulfer plays the saxophone .
B-side She's Always in My Hair covered Digital Underground (1990), D'Angelo (1997) and Somethin 'for the People (1997). The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed the songs Rasberry Beret and Pop Life in 1995 .
reception
Press
The reviews of the album Around the World in a Day were divided. The news magazine Der Spiegel wrote, the "strange, psychedelic , to flower power styles reminiscent of the sixties album" was a bizarre and not at all easy to understand work and concluded: " genius and madness made in Minneapolis ." Prince 'song described the magazine as " Bowie - pathos and Little Richard -Gekreische". Rolf Lenz from the Münchner Abendzeitung was more critical and wrote: “Now he [Prince] is slowly ticking through and throws a flood of different ideas, influences and quotes around the ears of his disciples , which very few will be able to digest right away. Prince doesn't need a day around the world - he makes his way from anywhere to nowhere in 40 minutes (...) packed into an ingenious, indefinable folklore mixture, which in its lack of boundaries is symptomatic for the rest of the record. "
Georg Schmidt from the Berlin city magazine tip could not bring himself to a clear judgment either and wrote: “Prince wants to be like God and the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and many more. Around The World sounds exactly like that . ”[Sic] It is“ an album whose nine songs are as eclectic as they are pretentious. (...) Anyone who has previously thought that Prince is one of the most overrated contemporary artists has, as the new one clearly shows, underestimated. Because Prince cannot be rated highly enough ”. On the other hand, he diagnosed “old and new psychedelia , oriental cymbals and steam organ sounds , the incense sticks from Haight-Ashbury and the sultry plush of Art Rock , the classicisms of She's Leaving Home and the dismay of a black entertainer. Prince mixes everything and every idea into an unidentifiable but shimmering soap bubble sound. It is just as versatile as it is stylish and tasteless. (...) Prince has nothing to tell, neither lyrically nor musically. Because Prince is the first pop star who demands everything from his fans and gives nothing back. He is also unique in that. "
In the US news magazine Newsweek , Jim Miller described the album as "a strange attempt to resurrect the whimsical mood that shaped Sgt. Pepper of the Beatles ". The journalist Robert Palmer (* 1945; † 1997) of the New York Times analyzed the album as follows: “Prince accepts that he will be accused of imitation and a certain stylistic arbitrariness by alluding to so many idols of the sixties rock scene . At the same time, he asks that he be taken seriously - he may even demand it. If Stg. Pepper is generally considered a work of art by the Beatles, then he would wish that Around The World In A Day [sic] would come second. ”In his ultimately positive conclusion“ Whether it is a concept album as a collection of excellent songs considered, in any case it is a musical and stylistic show of strength. Prince's greatest achievement - so far, “he rated the album higher than Prince's successful previous album Purple Rain .
When Prince was asked about the album Around the World in a Day in an interview with the US music magazine Rolling Stone , he replied: “I have heard that some people claim that there is nothing on this record. And many other people get something wrong about the record: I'm not trying to be the great, visionary magician. (...) It's not about something for which I have the keys. I tried to say something like looking in oneself to find perfection. (...) Many of my peers think that we bring silly stuff on stage and on the records, (...) the music, the dances, the lyrics. But that's exactly what we want to do. It's not silly, it's morbid . Sick in slang just means doing things that someone else wouldn't. That's what I'm always after ”.
In addition, Prince emphasized in the Rolling Stone interview that he had completed the album Around the World in a Day immediately after completing the previous album Purple Rain (1984). He didn't want to wait to see "what would happen to Purple Rain ." That's why both albums sound so different. “It would have been easy to start Around the World in a Day with the guitar solo that concludes Let's Go Crazy . That would have taken the wind out of the sails of everyone who now claims that the new album is not even half as powerful. ”Furthermore, Prince denied in the interview that he was inspired by the music and style of the 1960s. “The Beatles weren't an influence. They were great because of the things they did, but I don't know how they would look in today's music scene. "
After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album Around the World in a Day and gave it four out of six stars. Among other things, they wrote: “The usual contours of rock, funk and pop appear as slightly blurred. A new tendency towards religion and mysticism in terms of content reinforces the puzzling impression. Nevertheless, the material is one of the essential works of the heir to the throne, above all the luxuriant Paisley Park and the hit Raspberry Beret ”. Sassan Niasseri from the German edition of the US music magazine Rolling Stone also gave a verdict on Around the World in a Day after Prince's death . He gave the highest number of points with five stars and said, among other things, that the A-side was “fantastically beautiful”. On the B-side, Prince then “picked up speed”.
Charts
Prince had his own ideas about marketing the album Around the World in Day ; So he demanded from his record company that there should be neither singles nor music videos for the album. Advertisements in leading industry magazines should also not be placed. Marylou Badeaux, then vice president of Warner Bros. Records, said, “Everyone was about to have a heart attack. But we ended up doing it the way he [Prince] wanted ”. When sales of the album were lower than the previous album Purple Rain from 1984 after a few weeks , Prince finally agreed to publish music videos for the album. He also gave interviews to the music broadcaster MTV and a radio station in Detroit , Michigan.
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 Germany (GfK)
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10 (24 weeks) | 24 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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7th (6 weeks) | 6th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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8th (11 weeks) | 11 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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5 (21 weeks) | 21st |
 United States (Billboard)
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1 (3) (44 weeks) | 44 |
Around the World in a Day has been awarded gold and platinum status several times internationally:
- UK: 1 × gold for 100,000 copies sold on April 22, 1985
- US: 2 × platinum for 2,000,000 copies sold on July 2, 1985
- NZ: 1 × gold for 7,500 copies sold on September 15, 1985
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| 1985 | Raspberry Beret |
DE35 (10 weeks) DE |
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UK25th  (9 weeks)UK |
US2 (17 weeks) US |
• UK: June 29, 2018: Silver (200,000+)
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UK18 (12 weeks) UK |
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• Only decoupled in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
• Highest ranking Australia: 38 • Highest ranking New Zealand: 26 |
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DE65 (4 weeks) DE |
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UK60 (2 weeks) UK |
US7 (14 weeks) US |
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US46 (7 weeks) US |
• Not decoupled worldwide
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| 2016 | Raspberry Beret | - | - | - |
UK47 (1 week) UK |
US33 (1 week) US |
• Posthumous re-entry on April 29, 2016
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Awards
Prince was honored with the following awards for the Around the World in a Day era :
Minnesota Music Awards
- 1986: Best album cover artwork (best cover artwork): Around the World in a Day
- 1986: Best Music Video (Best Video): Raspberry Beret
MTV Video Music Awards
- 1986: Best Choreography: Prince and The Revolution
literature
- Mobeen Azhar: Prince 1958–2016: His life in pictures and text. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-283-01265-6 .
- Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times (Revised & Updated Edition). Chartwell Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7858-3497-7 .
- Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times. Jawbone Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-906002-18-3 .
- Jon Ewing: Prince - CD Books : Carlton Books, Rastatt 1994, ISBN 3-8118-3986-1 .
- Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will the Picture - Funk, Sex and God in the Music of Prince. Faber & Faber, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-571-33326-4 .
- Alex Hahn: Obsessed - Prince's turbulent life . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-610-0 .
- Dave Hill: Prince - A Pop Life. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-426-04036-0 .
- Roland Mischke: From Nobody to Pop Prince. Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1989, ISBN 3-404-61157-8 .
- Per Nilsen: DanceMusicSexRomance - Prince: The First Decade. Firefly Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 0-946719-23-3 .
- Steve Parke: Picturing Prince. Cassell Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-84403-959-3 .
- Duane Tudahl: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, London 2018, ISBN 978-1538114629 .
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X .
Web links
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