Diamonds and Pearls (album)
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| Studio album by Prince and The New Power Generation | |||||||||||||
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Late December 1989 - May 10th 1991 |
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Double album, CD |
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13 |
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65:46 |
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Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen ) |
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Diamonds and Pearls ( English for diamonds and pearls ) is the 13th studio album by the American musician Prince . He recorded it with his then newly formed backing band The New Power Generation and released it on October 1, 1991 on the Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records label. With 6.5 million copies, the album became Prince's second best-selling album after Purple Rain . The Diamonds and Pearls world tour was also commercially successful and was attended by a total of 850,000 people.
The music on the album belongs to the genres of funk , hip-hop , pop , R&B and rock . New in Prince's repertoire was the hip-hop music genre, in which he also incorporated rap elements. However, music critics criticized the spoken vocals , which are mainly performed by band member Tony M. In addition, Rosie Gaines can be heard in several songs , but she left his backing band in the summer of 1992 due to discrepancies with Prince.
Emergence
After two of the previous three Prince albums - Lovesexy (1988) and Graffiti Bridge (1990) - had not achieved platinum status in the USA, Prince put on a new image in the early 1990s ; Based on gangsta rappers , he often used a microphone that was shaped like a revolver to sing . He also began to dress more masculine than before in his career. Sound engineer Michael Koppelmann said: "He wanted other black artists to see him as 'tough' and 'off the street' as they did themselves." Alan Leeds, Prince's tour manager at the time, found his new image unconvincing: "He was as Gangsta about as believable as Snoop Dogg in a polka band . "
Originally, Prince wanted to bring out a four- or five-CD box in 1991 with previously unreleased songs. Warner Bros. Records, however, feared sales difficulties and was also of the opinion that the production costs for a CD box were too high. Therefore, the company proposed to release a double CD, consisting of a greatest hits compilation and the then unreleased Black Album . Prince declined this proposal, however, and instead took on the studio album Diamonds and Pearls with his then newly formed backing band The New Power Generation .
Prince recorded the thirteen songs on the Diamonds and Pearls album mainly between December 1989 and May 1991. The two pieces of Diamonds and Pearls and Live 4 Love played Prince end of December, 1989 in his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen one in Minnesota. He recorded Daddy Pop , Walk Don't Walk and Schoolyard in June 1990 at Olympic Studios in London when he toured there on his nude tour . Prince recorded the four songs Strollin ' , Willing and Able , Money Don't Matter 2 Night and Something Funky (This House Comes) at Warner Pioneer Studios in Tokyo at the end of August 1990 during the Japanese part of the Nude tour. About the recording of the songs, drummer Michael Bland said after Prince's death in 2016: “I had a gastrointestinal infection , felt bad and played bad too. To this day I feel queasy when I hear these songs. ”After the Nude Tour ended, Prince finished the three songs Jughead , Horny Pony and The Flow on September 11, 1990 in his Paisley Park Studio and in October 1990 in Larrabee Sound Studio in Los Angeles recorded the song Insatiable . At the beginning of December 1990 he recorded Call the Law in Paisley Park Studio and then presented the record company Warner Bros. Records with a first version of his new album Diamonds and Pearls with the following tracklist :
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Diamonds and Pearls December 1990 |
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| 1 | Daddy pop | |
| 2 | Walk don't walk | |
| 3 | Schoolyard | until today (2020) unpublished |
| 4th | Strollin ' | |
| 5 | Willing and Able | |
| 6th | Diamonds and Pearls | |
| 7th | Insatiable | |
| 8th | Money Don't Matter 2 Night | |
| 9 | Horny pony | 1991 B-side of Gett Off and Cream |
| 10 | Live 4 Love | |
| 11 | Something Funky (This House Comes) | until today (2020) unpublished |
| 12 | Call the Law | 1992 B-side of Money Don't Matter 2 Night |
| 13 | The flow | 1992 revised to Love Symbol |
Prince then recorded Cream on December 3, 1990 , Thunder on January 24, 1991, and Push on February 5, 1991 at Paisley Park Studio. Then in early February 1991 he presented the then heads of the music department of Warner Bros. Records - Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronka - another version of the album Diamonds and Pearls , whose track list corresponded to the one that was finally published. Only Horny Pony was still on the tracklist instead of Gett Off . Ostin and Waronka listened to the raw version of the new rap-influenced album and said that Prince had produced the best-selling album in years. In addition, they were of the opinion that Prince was addressing a younger target group with the new songs and thus possibly winning new fans who had little to do with the religiously influenced previous albums like Lovesexy and Graffiti Bridge . "Mo and Lenny really wanted to get Prince to write a great, not just a good album," said Jeff Gold, who has headed the creative department at Warner Bros. Records since 1990. “They had the feeling that his career needed another big boost,” Gold continued. On May 10, 1991, Prince recorded Gett Off, the final song for Diamonds and Pearls, in his Paisley Park studio.
Prince wanted to release Gett Off as soon as possible; he produced an extended version called Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Minutes) , which is 9:22 minutes long. Prince wanted to release this version on an EP , along with the three songs Cream , Horny Pony and Money Don't Matter 2 Night . However, shortly before the planned release date, the EP was withdrawn from the public for unknown reasons. Warner Bros. Records believed Prince's fans would ask him to do a maximum of one album a year, an argument Prince could not follow. As a child, he rode his bike to a record store "every three months" to buy the latest James Brown single, and Brown was never branded as too productive by anyone. Warner spokesman Bob Merlis said, however, that Prince's third single from his previous album Graffiti Bridge would clash with the first single from a new album. That's why Warner Bros. Records wants to wait with the release of a new Prince album.
Undeterred by the canceled EP release, Prince had a vinyl maxi single by Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Minutes) pressed in a limited edition of 1,500 copies to be delivered to radio stations on June 7, 1991 - his 33rd birthday - about what but he did not inform Warner Bros. Records. Prince also produced a shortened single version of Gett Off , deleted Horny Pony from the Diamonds and Pearls tracklist - the song title can still be read on the album cover of Diamonds and Pearls - and replaced it with Gett Off . Thereupon Warner decided to release Gett Off as a pre-release single and to let the album Diamonds and Pearls follow soon.
Design of the cover
The booklet of Diamonds and Pearls appeared in two versions with different front covers; as a printed album cover and as a hologram . Both show Prince with two models and dancers Lori Elle (nickname: Diamond) and Robia LaMorte (nickname: Pearl), looking through a pearl necklace. The front cover of the double LP is not available as a hologram. The color scheme of the two covers is different: the hologram cover is in golden-brown tones, the printed album cover is designed in blue tones with white gradations. The lyrics are printed both in the LP edition and in the CD booklet.
Prince originally planned an album cover that showed him in a photo with his mouth open and tongue sticking out. But this cover was rejected by his label. Jeff Gold, then deputy managing director of Warner Bros. Records, showed Prince a special edition of the album cover of Days of Open Hands by Suzanne Vega , on which a hologram can be seen. Prince was impressed by this art form and expressed a desire to have a front cover in the same style. He had himself photographed with two dancers, whom he gave the stage names Diamond and Pearl . After the photos were available as holograms and the images changed depending on the perspective, Prince thanked Jeff Gold as follows: “The more I look at it, the more I love it. Thanks for the cool cover, Prince ”. The accompanying band The New Power Generation is shown on the LP inner sleeve and in the booklet on page four. Prince also thanks Charlie Friend, a pseudonym of Carmen Electra, in the liner notes .
music
When the music genre R&B was increasingly influenced by hip-hop and rap in the early 1990s , Prince responded by forming an eight-member backing band called The New Power Generation . On the album Diamonds and Pearls , his bandmates were allowed to participate in the songwriting , a role he had only very rarely allowed band members on his previous twelve albums. "We were his first black band, and it was our job to get him back the black audiences he'd lost," said Rosie Gaines . Keyboardist Dr. Fink, who has played with Prince repeatedly in the band since the 1980s, confirmed: “I had the feeling that he preferred the black side of the band. He rarely came to me as he had done before. It was more like this: Do your job, I prefer to hang out with my black buddies, with my gang. ” Prince wrote four songs on the album Diamonds and Pearls in collaboration with band members. Rapper Tony M., who can be heard on six of thirteen songs on the album, played a central role.
The album Diamonds and Pearls is characterized by the music directions funk , pop music , rock music , R&B and soul jazz , influences of hip hop and rap are also present. Band member Tony M. mainly performs the rap chanting . In contrast to Prince, he has a deep baritone voice that is sometimes reminiscent of a macho and goes better with gangsta rap music . In the booklet of the album Diamonds and Pearls , Prince wrote about the rap style of Tony M., he had "the sharpest tongue that one has ever seen in the twin cities [ Minneapolis and St. Paul ]". Band member Rosie Gaines was far more skeptical about Tony M.'s rap skills than Prince: “I thought he was a would-be Dr. Dre , ”she said. Tony M. can be heard in the songs Daddy Pop , Willing and Able , Gett Off , Jughead , Push and Live 4 Love .
List of titles and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| 1 | Thunder | Prince | 5:46 |
| 2 | Daddy pop | Prince | 5:17 |
| 3 | Diamonds and Pearls | Prince | 4:45 |
| 4th | Cream | Prince | 4:12 |
| 5 | Strollin ' | Prince | 3:47 |
| 6th | Willing and Able | Prince, Levi Seacer Jr., Tony M. | 5:00 |
| 7th | Gett off | Prince | 4:30 |
| 8th | Walk don't walk | Prince | 3:07 |
| 9 | Jughead | Prince, Kirky J., Tony M. | 4:56 |
| 10 | Money Don't Matter 2 Night | Prince | 4:46 |
| 11 | Push | Prince, Rosie Gaines | 5:53 |
| 12 | Insatiable | Prince | 6:39 |
| 13 | Live 4 Love | Prince, Tony M. | 6:59 |
When Diamonds and Pearls was released on October 1, 1991, Prince hired music manager Frank DiLeo to organize the advertising campaign for the album. DiLeo worked for Michael Jackson from 1984 to 1989 . Marylou Badeaux, then Vice President of Warner Bros. Records, was disappointed with Prince's decision: “He never believed that we [Warner Bros. Records] were doing our best. He always had the feeling that his success was solely his performance and had nothing to do with the company. ”For example, Frank DiLeo organized that Prince was the first guest ever to play five songs on the then popular US TV show by Arsenio Hall and at the MTV Video Music Awards 1991 .
Single releases
Six singles were released from the album; The first single Gett Off was selected on July 29, 1991 with the then unreleased song Horny Pony as the B-side . Gett Off appeared in a single remix that is 30 seconds shorter than the album version, but contains additional lyrics . Cream was released as the second single on September 9, 1991. Single and album versions are identical and Horny Pony was chosen again as the B-side . Insatiable was deliberately decoupled on November 4, 1991 for the US R&B charts. The song I Love U in Me was selected as the B-side, which had already served as the B-side of Prince's single The Arms of Orion in 1989 . Diamonds and Pearls was the fourth single from the album of the same name on November 25, 1991. The single version is 4:20 minutes long, which is 25 seconds shorter than the album version. On the B-side you can hear excerpts of several songs from the album Diamonds and Pearls that were not released as a single.
Money Don't Matter 2 Night was released on March 3, 1992 as the fifth single. The version is 4:12 minutes long and the B-side of the then unreleased song is call the Law , in 1993 on the album Goldnigga of The New Power Generation has been placed. Call the Law's lead singer is rapper Tony M .; Prince played all of the instruments in the song, but was not involved in the vocals. The song Thunder was selected as the sixth and final single on June 15, 1992 . However, the song only appeared in the UK and was released exclusively as a limited edition vinyl maximized single Picture Disc .
Music videos
Six music videos from the five singles Gett Off , Cream , Insatiable , Diamonds and Pearls and Money Don't Matter 2 Night - there are two different music videos - have been produced for the album Diamonds and Pearls . There are also videos for the six songs Thunder (Live Version) , Strollin ' , Willing and Able , Jughead (Live Version) , Live 4 Love (Live Version) and Call the Law . All music videos are included in the Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection compilation on October 6, 1992 on VHS and Laserdisc . In 2006 this was also released on DVD , the compilation has not yet been released on Blu-ray Disc (as of 2020).
The filming of the music video for Diamonds and Pearls took place on May 25 and 26, 1991 in Los Angeles , California in the City Hall building and was directed by Rebecca Blake, who was also responsible for the music video for Kiss (1986). According to Blake, there were massive obstructions in front of the City Hall building for onlookers who wanted to watch the filming. Prince originally wanted Mayte Garcia , then 17 , who he married in 1996, to appear in the music video for Diamonds and Pearls , but Blake said, “In my opinion, she's not sexy enough. She lacks that certain something ”refused. Prince's proposal to have children appear in the music video was approved.
On May 31, June 1, June 5 and 6, 1991 the filming of the music video of Cream took place, which was also in Los Angeles, but this time in the Los Angeles Union Station . The director was again Rebecca Blake. The video exists in two different versions; once in a version shortened to six minutes and in the original 9-minute version, which contains longer intros. According to Blake, some scenes were improvised, such as scenes in the intro at a barber shop and restaurant. In addition, the dialogues that had already been completed for the band members of The New Power Generation had to be rewritten because the band argued: "We don't speak that way".
The video for Gett Off was filmed in Prince's Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota, in late July 1991 . Among other things, Prince wears a bandana , from which he was inspired by his then bodyguard Hucky Austin. Austin always wore the bandana the wrong way round, with the knot on his forehead. He said after Prince's death in 2016: “Prince was a prankster. He liked to laugh, and one day when I was wearing my bandana with the knot up as always, he yelled in front of the crowd: 'You look like Harriet Tubman !' "Two days later, Prince was preparing to shoot Gett Off and also had a bandana with the knot on his forehead, to which Austin said, “I thought I looked like Harriet? He laughed, 'You do too, but when I wear it it's sexy.' "The music video was directed by Randee St. Nicholas. According to director Rebecca Blake, however, it was her idea to have the two dancers Lori Elle, named "Diamond" and Robia LaMorte , named "Pearl" appear in the music video, which Prince took over from 1991 to 1992.
Prince had two different versions produced for the music video for Money Don't Matter 2 Night . In late 1991, director Spike Lee shot a 5:12 minute long socially critical video in which he depicts the contrast between poverty and wealth in the world. For example, homeless people , scenes from the second Gulf War (1990), war refugees and wounded children can be seen. In contrast to this, people in a casino , laughing and dancing at an event in evening wear , sunbathing in bikini on the beach and as golfers are to be considered. Furthermore, after 1:39 minutes, Donald Trump appears briefly in the video, who was considered a successful businessman in 1991. Two seconds later, George HW Bush , the then President of the United States , can be seen. Colin Powell and H. Norman Schwarzkopf senior also appear in the video . Prince or his band members do not appear in the music video.
In January 1992 director Sotera Tschetter shot a second music video for the song Money Don't Matter 2 Night in the Paisley Park Studio . This shows Prince performing the piece on the piano with his backing band The New Power Generation, cameraman Larry Fong . A third music video for Money Don't Matter 2 Night is just a compilation of the two videos by Spike Lee and Larry Fong, which has a duration of 4:52 minutes.
In 1992 Prince produced a music video for the single Insatiable in Hollywood , California at the Hollywood Center Studio, now known as Sunset Las Palmas Studios. Apart from Prince, there are 15 dancers in the video and, like the Gett Off video, the director was Randee St. Nicholas.
Prince also had a music video for the song Walk Don't Walk produced in June 1991 , directed by Lisa Bonet . Similar to the Diamonds and Pearls music video, Prince wanted Mayte Garcia to play a role, but Bonet refused. The video of Walk Don't Walk has not been published until today (as of 2020).
Cover versions
Occasionally musicians recorded cover versions of songs from the album Diamonds and Pearls ; for example, the title track has been reinterpreted by Bob Belden (1994), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1995), Marcin Wasilewski (2008) and David Helbock (2012).
In 1999 The Songrise Orchestra released an instrumental CD entitled The Music of Prince , which included new versions of Diamonds and Pearls , Cream and Money Don't Matter 2 Night , among others . The German electronic band Funker Vogt recorded a version of Gett Off in 2005 and Viktoria Tolstoy released a jazz version of the song Strollin ' in 2006 . Robert Randolph and the Family Band covered Walk Don't Walk in 2010 and David Helbock performed a jazz version of Cream in 2012 .
tour
| Typical setlist of the Diamonds and Pearls tour from April 3, 1992 - July 12, 1992 | |
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Six months after the release of the album Diamonds and Pearls , Prince went on a world tour with his backing band The New Power Generation. The Diamonds and Pearls tour began on April 3, 1992 in Tokyo in the Tokyo Dome and ended on July 12, 1992 in Paris in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy . Prince gave 50 concerts that were attended by a total of 850,000 people; the 32 concerts in Europe saw about 500,000 people, the 14 concerts in Australia about 200,000 and 4 concerts in Japan about 150,000 people.
After the 1988 Lovesexy Tour in the US proved to be a losing business, Prince did not perform in his home country in 1992. The concert length of the Diamonds and Pearls world tour varied from 110 to 140 minutes and was highly praised by critics. For example, an Australian journalist described Prince as "the hottest act on the planet". The Herald Sun described a Prince concert as "the captivating performance of a musical genius."
The New Power Generation consisted of the following twelve members during the Diamonds and Pearls tour:
- Damon D. (real name: Damon Dickson) - dancer and rapper
- Diamond (civil: Lori Elle) - dancer
- DJ William Graves - scratching
- Kirky J. (real name: Kirk Johnson) - dancer and rapper
- Levi Seacer Jr. - guitar
- Mayte Garcia - dancer
- Michael B. (real name: Michael Bland) - drums
- Pearl (real name: Robia LaMorte ) - dancer
- Rosie Gaines - keyboard and backing vocals
- Sonny T. (real name: Sonny Thompson) - electric bass
- Tommy Barbarella (real name: Thomas Elm) - Keyboard
- Tony M. (real name: Anthony Mosley) - dancer and rapper
In addition, the five-piece band The Hornheads , which consisted of the following members:
- Brian Gallagher - tenor saxophone
- Dave Jensen - trumpet
- Kathy Jensen - saxophone
- Michael B. Nelson - trombone
- Steve Strand - Trumpet
Dave and Kathy Jensen are married to each other. Brian Gallagher (born November 23, 1963) died of a pulmonary embolism on March 3, 2016 at the age of 52 .
Carmen Electra in the opening act
On September 14, 1990, Prince Carmen met Electra . He met the then 18-year-old dancer with the real name Tara Leigh Patrick in Los Angeles, California at the Spice nightclub . He invited her to his then home in Beverly Hills for auditions and auditions. A few months later he called her to sign her to his music label Paisley Park Records and record a studio album with her. As a stage name he chose the first name “Carmen” for her, inspired by the film Carmen Jones from 1954. She agreed and added the surname “Electra”, based on the Greek goddess of the same name .
From 25 May 1992 to 10 June 1992, including stepped Carmen Electra for about 20 minutes in the opening act on at Prince's Diamonds and Pearls World Tour. But after the first half of the European part of the tour, she had to end her engagement in the opening act due to disappointed reactions from the audience and at Prince's insistence. Initially, Prince blamed Electra's backing band for the poor performance and swapped band members during the ongoing tour in order to possibly inspire the audience for Electra after all. Tommy Barbarella, keyboardist for The New Power Generation at the time, confirmed: “He couldn't blame you, so he blamed the band - that was a joke. The problem wasn't the band, but rather the fact that they couldn't sweep anyone away in a big stadium or hall with their squeaky little raps. ”In their back-up band at the time, Morris Hayes and Kathy Jensen, the sister of Dancer and, played Rapper Kirk Johnson, who was a member of The New Power Generation at the time. Hayes joined The New Power Generation after completing the Diamonds and Pearls tour.
On February 9, 1993, the label Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records released the album Carmen Electra , which could not place in the international charts. Electra ended her career as a singer that same year and later became an actress.
Aftershows
From 1986 onwards, Prince occasionally played an aftershow after the main concert, i.e. another concert after midnight. His aftershows took place in smaller music clubs in front of mostly 300 to 1,500 spectators and Prince did without the lavish stage shows, choreographies and light shows of his main concerts. In addition, he designed the song selection differently and often did without his top ten hits. Some of the aftershows' highlights were guest appearances by well-known musicians.
In 1992 Prince played an aftershow at 5 of the 50 concerts on the Diamonds and Pearls tour. The first of these took place in Japan on April 6, 1992, and two more each in Australia and Europe. On June 7, 1992, Prince's 34th birthday, Carmen Electra was a guest singer in the Park Café in Munich , otherwise no guest musicians were present at the aftershows.
Rosie Gaines leaves the band
After the Diamonds and Pearls tour ended in July 1992, Rosie Gaines left Prince's backing band The New Power Generation . Aside from the similar disputes on the tour bus as on the Nude tour in 1990, Gaines was upset that Prince did not name her as the author of some songs from the album Diamonds and Pearls . In her opinion, however, she was entitled to it: “Before we recorded the album [ Diamonds and Pearls ], he told us we would all be like family, we would do everything together and share it, and we trusted him. It is our fault that we did not get this in writing. I said to him, 'You want us to be available to you twenty-four hours a day, but you are not paying us enough that we could somehow support our families during that time.' I don't think it had dawned on him at all that people had a private life, that they had children. He always said to me: 'Everyone has to take care of themselves.' "
Rosie Gaines and Prince did not have professional contact again until four years later. When Prince was busy recording his album Emancipation in 1996 , Gaines took over parts of the lead vocals on the song Jam of the Year .
reception
Press
The reviews of the album Diamonds and Pearls were mostly cautious. Especially Prince's concession to the music genre rap with influences from hip-hop was received with skepticism.
Tom Moon of the Philadelphia Inquirer criticized: "After years of being almost Miles Davis of pop for ingenuity , he has now sacrificed his artistic vision to sell a few records." David Browne wrote in Entertainment Weekly : "This clever one Boy always comes up with a few good tricks, but the holes in between get bigger on every record. ”The St. Paul Pioneer Press said the album“ has a lot of breadth, but little originality. ”The New Musical Express saw it Album proves that Prince "no longer has an important influence on the zeitgeist of pop music". The American music critic Robert Christgau rated the album with only two stars and was of the opinion that Prince "does not know his own new power". The US music magazine Rolling Stone was of the opinion that Prince had "never sounded more normal" than on the album Diamonds and Pearls and awarded three and a half stars out of five. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from the US online music database Allmusic also gave it three and a half stars out of five and remarked that "although he still has a problem with rap - Jughead is just embarrassing", the album is still "a good record".
Prince himself commented on the music genre rap to the British magazine SKY : “Well, first of all, I never said that I didn't like rap. And everyone has the right to change their mind. ”He also praised his band members, especially rapper Tony M. and singer Rosie Gaines ; she is “like a tornado. No day has enough hours for her voice. No tape does it justice, ”said Prince to US magazine Details .
After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album Diamonds and Pearls and gave it three and a half out of six stars. Among other things, they wrote: “The ambiguous Cream and the melancholy Money Don't Matter 2 Night are among his best songs. You can also feel 'how willing he is to deal with the hip-hop zeitgeist'. Sassan Niasseri from the German edition of the US music magazine Rolling Stone also gave a verdict on Diamonds and Pearls after Prince's death in October 2016 . He gave two and a half stars out of five and said, among other things, that the album looked “quite ostentatious and rich, if not nouveau riche”. It is "miles away from the demo-like bulkiness of the material on Sign" ☮ "the Times [1987]. Prince never sounded tidier, cleaner and clearer than on his 13th album. ”Songs like Thunder , Daddy Pop and Cream did not convince Niasseri, Jughead and Push are “ children's rap ”and“ laughable ”. Only with the piece Gett Off did Prince “really do everything right”.
Charts and awards
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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8th (56 weeks) | 56 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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4th (32 weeks) | 32 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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3 (32 weeks) | 32 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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2 (60 weeks) | 60 |
 United States (Billboard)
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3 (46 weeks) | 46 |
The album Diamonds and Pearls has been sold around 6.5 million times worldwide and has been awarded gold and platinum status several times around the world:
- CH: 1 × platinum for 50,000 copies sold in 1991
- CA: 1 × platinum for 100,000 copies sold on December 17, 1991
- FR: 2 × platinum for 300,000 copies sold in 1992
- US: 2 × platinum for 2,000,000 copies sold on January 30, 1992
- AT: 1 × platinum for 50,000 copies sold on May 7, 1992
- AU: 4 × platinum for 280,000 copies sold in November 1996
- UK: 3 × platinum for 900,000 copies sold on November 12, 2004
- DE: 1 × platinum for 500,000 copies sold on May 25, 2016
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| 1991 | Gett off |
DE13 (15 weeks) DE |
AT9 (10 weeks) AT |
CH3 (15 weeks) CH |
UK4 (8 weeks) UK |
US21st  (14 weeks)US |
• Only allowed as a censored version on US radio
• US: October 23, 1991: Gold (500,000+) |
| Cream |
DE21 (22 weeks) DE |
AT4 (18 weeks) AT |
CH3 (15 weeks) CH |
UK15 (7 weeks) UK |
US1 (2) (20 weeks)US |
• US: January 16, 1992: Gold (500,000+)
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| Insatiable | DEnvDE | ATnvAT | CHnvCH | UKnvUK |
US77 (7 weeks) US |
• Only decoupled in the USA
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| Diamonds and Pearls |
DE28 (14 weeks) DE |
AT19 (11 weeks) AT |
CH7 (11 weeks) CH |
UK25 (6 weeks) UK |
US3 (21 weeks) US |
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| 1992 | Money Don't Matter 2 Night |
DE48 (10 weeks) DE |
AT23 (1 week) AT |
CH23 (9 weeks) CH |
UK19 (5 weeks) UK |
US23 (13 weeks) US |
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| Thunder | DEnvDE | ATnvAT | CHnvCH |
UK28 (3 weeks) UK |
USnvUS | ||
| 2016 | Cream | - |
AT66 (1 week) AT |
CH52 (1 week) CH |
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• Posthumous re-entry : May 1st, 2016
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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 , OCLC 951825985 .
- Jake Brown: Prince in the Studio (1975-1995). Colossus Books, Phoenix 2010, ISBN 978-0-9790976-6-9 , OCLC 276814904 .
- Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times (Revised & Updated Edition). Chartwell Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7858-3497-7 .
- Jon Ewing: Prince - CD Books : Carlton Books, Rastatt 1994, ISBN 3-8118-3986-1 , OCLC 75552811 .
- Mayte Garcia : The Most Beautiful Girl: My Life With Prince. mvg Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86882-897-9 , OCLC 1014191154 .
- Alex Hahn: Obsessed - Prince's turbulent life . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-610-0
- Ronin Ro: Prince - Inside the Music and the Masks. St. Martin's Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-38300-8 , OCLC 428027211 .
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .
- Joseph Vogel: This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music. Bloomsbury Academic, New York 2018, ISBN 978-150-133-397-2 , OCLC 1034764061 .
Web links
- Princevault , information about the album Diamonds and Pearls
Individual evidence
- ^ Uptown (2004); P. 387.
- ↑ Hahn (2016), p. 221.
- ^ Ro (2011), p. 213.
- ↑ Azhar (2016), p. 63
- ^ Uptown (2004), p. 119.
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