Lovesexy (album)

Lovesexy
Prince's studio album
Publication (s)	May 6, 1988
admission	December 11, 1987 - January 31, 1988
Label (s)	Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	R&B , funk , pop , rock
Title (number)	9
running time	45:05
occupation	Prince - All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince . His band members added the following to the recordings: Sheila E. and Boni Boyer - backing vocals on all songs Sheila E. - Drums and Percussion in Eye No. Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss - Saxophone in Eye No , Alphabet St. , Anna Stesia , Lovesexy and Positivity Miko Weaver - Guitar in Eye No. Levi Seacer Jr. - E-Bass in Eye No. Dr. Fink - Keyboard in Eye No. Boni Boyer - Hammond Organ in Eye No. Ingrid Chavez - "The Spirit Child" Bernie Grundman - Mastering Joe Blaney, Eddie Miller and Prince - Mixdown Jean-Baptiste Mondino - record cover Bob Cavallo, Joe Ruffalo, Steve Fargnoli - Prince Personal Management
production	Prince
Studio (s)	Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen )
chronology Sign "☮" the Times (1987) Lovesexy Batman (1989)
Single releases April 15, 1988 Alphabet St. July 11, 1988 Glam slam 20th September 1988 I wish u heaven

Lovesexy is the tenth studio album by the American musician Prince . It was released on May 6, 1988 on the Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records label. Immediately after Prince canceled the Black Album release in December 1987, he recorded the Lovesexy album . The lyrics are influenced by mystical enlightenment and Christian motifs; they are mostly about God, the devil, guilt and atonement. The music on the album belongs to the genres of R&B , funk , pop music and rock music . Sheila E. is a guest musician .

Music critics rated lovesexy differently; in Europe the album was praised very much, in the USA it was judged much more cautiously. Lovesexy was commercially successful in Europe and was able to achieve gold or platinum status in various countries. In addition, the concerts on Prince's Lovesexy Tour were almost all sold out. In the USA, however, its popularity declined increasingly; for the first time since 1981, Prince fell short of platinum with an album. In addition, the US-American part of his tour turned into a losing business, as various concerts were not sold out.

Emergence

After Prince canceled the release of the Black Album in early December 1987, he began on December 11, 1987 in his Paisley Park Studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota with the recordings for the new album Lovesexy , which lasted until January 31, 1988.

In early October 1987, Prince recorded the song When 2 R in Love , which he also placed on the Black Album . On December 11, 1987, he and his accompanying band recorded the piece Eye No , which he had already written in 1986 as The Ball and has now revised. On the same day as Eye No , Prince played the song Positivity , which he recorded alone. On December 16, he recorded Dance On and on December 30, 1987 Alphabet St. The song Glam Slam Prince also played in December 1987, but the exact date of the recording is not known.

On January 13, 1988 Prince Anna Stesia took on and on January 29, the title track Lovesexy ; in December 1987 he recorded a piece called Luv Sexy , which differs significantly from the published version. On January 31, 1988, Prince recorded the last song for the album Lovesexy with I Wish U Heaven .

The piece Scarlet Pussy , which Prince recorded with Sheila E. and which serves as the B-side on the single from I Wish U Heaven , released in September 1988 , he played on January 29, 1987 at Paisley Park Studio. Prince sings the song with a technically accelerated, slightly higher voice, the hallmark of his alter ego "Camille". Originally, he planned to publish the piece on an album by Sheila E., which he ultimately didn't. The song Escape , which Prince placed on the single release of Glam Slam released in July 1988, he recorded on May 5, 1988 at Paisley Park Studio.

When Prince introduced the planned album to Warner Bros. Records , they were concerned about the lewd record cover . The cover was presented to Warner's marketing department, and a large number of those present feared that music stores and shopping malls would not put the album on store shelves in this form. Therefore, Prince was asked for an alternative record cover, but this refused. In addition, Prince refused to put index marks on the CD edition of the album so that the individual songs could not be clicked on, but the CD could only be heard as a complete work. Furthermore, Prince originally did not want to publish music videos for the album, as he was of the opinion that he was different from other pop stars and that a mysterious aura would arise around the record Lovesexy .

In the 1980s, Prince had never justified his decision to withdraw the Black Album , which was planned for 1987 . But in the program booklet for the Lovesexy Tour in 1988 there was a cryptic treatise about the Black Album ; Prince wrote in it that his alter ego "Camille" had overstretched its negative side. Alan Leeds, Prince's then tour manager and older brother of saxophonist Eric Leeds, said of the spiritually inspired Lovesexy album : “This man [Prince] had clearly had a revival and decided he wanted to change his life - for longer Time or even forever. ”According to Leeds, Prince considered the Black Album in retrospect as the work of the devil, which was not really his own and which he now has to follow up with“ a record for God ”. “At that moment he was a new guy. I'm not saying his life has changed dramatically, but the music he was making certainly changed. "Karen Krattinger, Prince's tour manager at the time, said," It was a facade. I knew he [Prince] was still not happy with his life. "Dez Dickerson, former guitarist in Prince's band, said," He [Prince] knew something was wrong, that he was influencing children ... Um To fix that, he invented this kind of new religion where everything is okay and God is watching you with a smile. "Saxophonist Eric Leeds admitted," I didn't understand what the term 'lovesexy' was supposed to mean. Nobody got that. "

Design of the cover

The record cover shows a photo of Prince taken by Jean-Baptiste Mondino ; however, it has been reworked so that it looks like a painting. Prince can be seen from half-left, sitting naked on the white petals of a large orchid . His gaze is directed into the indefinite. Prince's left leg is bent so that the genital area is covered. A placed in the background in the amount of Prince 'upper arm and above the location between his legs stamen - the pollen-bearing male part of a flower - in the form of an upwardly curving flowers temple can be used as phallic be interpreted reference. Prince supports himself with his left hand, the right one rests on his heart. Overall, the cover should symbolize a spiritual rebirth . The lyrics of the individual songs by Lovesexy are printed on both the LP and the CD booklet.

As Warner Bros. Records had feared, however, the record cover in the USA was interpreted by various stores as pornography and therefore the album Lovesexy was often only kept behind the counter. Mavis Staples later said to Prince in London: "The people in the States are not as tolerant as they are here [in Europe]."

Prince had his own take on the album cover and told Rolling Stone in 1990, “This album cover was just a picture. If you look at the picture and what sick people say about it, then you are sick yourself - it looks straight at you from the mirror. "

Art director Steve Parke (* 1963) said after Prince's death in 2016: “I still remember that the band was a bit upset back then because the whole band could be seen in the original artwork . When they found out that the new cover would only show a naked Prince with a few flowers, they were kind of offended. "

music

The musical style of the album Lovesexy moves between the genres of funk , pop music , rock music and R&B . In the lyrics , Prince deals with topics such as love and sex, war and peace, heaven and hell, God and the devil, and guilt and atonement. There are also other religious allusions to be found.

The first word Eye from the opening song Eye No ( homophone by I Know ) is designed in the shape of an eye on the record cover. The opening words of the song - a kind of nursery rhyme - are not spoken by Prince, but by "The Spirit Child", a pseudonym for Ingrid Chavez. Prince's voice joins in with an anti-drug message: "Welcome to the New Power Generation - the reason my voice is so clear is there's no smack in my brain" (German: "Welcome to the New Power Generation - The reason." why my voice is so clear is because there is no heroin in my brain ”). Then the song Eye No begins . The piece is a funk party song that is accompanied by percussion and a guitar, the sound of which has been changed on the mixer . In addition to instruments used. Prince sings in his typical falsetto singing and is supported by a female accompanying choir , while a clergyman starts a litany in the background . The lyrics revolve around topics like god and the devil.

The second song Alphabet St. is a musical mixture of the genres blues , pop and rock. A hand-clapping skiffle runs through the song. During the course of the song, the dancer Cat performs a rap- like chant . In the lyrics, Prince refers, among other things, to a Ford Thunderbird that his father John L. Nelson once gave him in real life.

Glam Slam is a rock-heavy song that contains a concerto of spirally soaring guitars and is accompanied by synthetic strings. In the lyrics of the song, Prince describes a love he shares, which on the one hand goes beyond the physical, but on the other hand feels “ horny ”.

In the fourth song Anna Stesia , Prince uses a play on words with “anaesthesia” in the title of the song . Anna Stesia is a thoughtful rock ballad that addresses the issue of loneliness and praises a painless state. The chorus of the song reads "God is Love, Love is God / Girls and boys, love God above" (German: "God is love, love is God / girls and boys, God is above us"). The song has a leitmotif piano sequence that runs through the entire piece.

Dance On is driven by a stuttering and hectic drumming game and a bass guitar is used as a symbol for a gun. The song has a lively rhythm , but there is no recognizable melody . In the lyrics, Prince deals with the violence of the modern world, with youth gangs and with the decay of city centers.

Directly under the song title of the title track Lovesexy , the booklet reads “The feeling U get, when U fall in Love not with a girl or boy but with the heavens above” (German: “The feeling you get when you yourself not in love with a girl or a boy, but with the sky above you ”). Nevertheless, the song Lovesexy sometimes has a somewhat ambiguous lyrics; for example, it is about a seduction scene in which no touch is allowed - only sweet and dirty words are allowed. The song is carried by a brisk rhythm, paired with blows from the wind and a repeated synthesizer fanfare. Boni Boyer also plays the Hammond organ . Furthermore, towards the end of the song, a short, high-pitched whistle penetrates the music for a moment, as if it had accidentally been feedback .

When 2 R in Love is the only ballad on the album. Prince sings in roughly five different voices and sometimes even transitions from one voice to another within a single verse. The lyrics are about love and sex; For example, the chorus says: "Come bathe with me / Let's drown each other in each other's emotion / Bathe with me / Let's cover each other with perfume and lotion" ("Come bathe with me / Let us drown each other in the emotion / Bathe with me / let's cover us with perfume and lotion ”). When 2 R in Love is the only track on the album on which Prince uses a Linn drum computer as drums - otherwise he used other drum computers on the album or played the drums live with a trigger sound.

The song I Wish U Heaven consists of a simple rock music melody generated by a drum computer. The lyrics, sung exclusively in falsetto by Prince, essentially consist of the repeated refrain of the song.

The ninth and final track on the album is called Positivity . The lyrics are half sung and half spoken by Prince in a low voice. He gives admonitions and urges the listener to wrestle the "Lovesexy" mindset and defy the temptations of a being called "Spooky Electric" - likely Prince's metaphor for Satan . Prince also asks to sing along to save our souls. Positivity is a monotonous and slow rock song that gets a gospel- like sound from the backing singers Sheila E. and Boni Boyer .

List of titles and publications

No.	song	author	length
01	Eye No.	Prince	5:46
02	Alphabet St.	Prince	5:39
03	Glam slam	Prince	5:04
04th	Anna Stesia	Prince	4:58
05	Dance on	Prince	3:44
06th	Lovesexy	Prince	5:47
07th	When 2 R in Love	Prince	4:01
08th	I wish u heaven	Prince	2:43
09	Positivity	Prince	7:17

Lovesexy was released on May 6, 1988 in France, May 9 in the UK and May 10 in the US. The album is available on vinyl , compact cassette and compact disc , although the first editions of the CD edition were exclusively pressed as one-track. Only later were the songs separated from each other so that each piece can be clicked on separately.

Single releases

Three singles were released from the album: Alphabet St. was first released on April 15, 1988, and was released in the USA on April 23. The single version ends after 2:25 minutes. The B-side is the continuation of the single version with 3:14 minutes, so that the total of the 5:39 minute album version is present on the A and B sides of the single.

Glam Slam was released on July 11, 1988 and the single version is shortened to 3:28 minutes. Shortly before Glam Slam was released, Prince tried to prevent the single from being released. He thought the decision to release Glam Slam as the second single on the album was wrong . His record company Warner Bros. Records did not follow Prince's opinion and released the single as planned. The B-side Escape was previously unreleased.

I Wish U Heaven was released as the third single on September 20, 1988 and is identical to the album version. The B-side Scarlet Pussy was also previously unreleased.

Music videos

Although Prince had announced to his record company Warner Bros. Records that he did not want to publish music videos for the album Lovesexy , he decided on March 20, 1988, surprisingly, to do so. That day he called his tour manager Alan Leeds to shoot a video for the first single, Alphabet St. , that same day . When Leeds asked Prince if he had told his manager Steve Fargnoli, Prince said no on the grounds that he did not want Warner people to interfere. Alan Leeds was able to hire director Michael Barnard on the spur of the moment and filming began around eleven o'clock on the evening of March 20, 1988.

The music video for the song Alphabet St. was created in front of a blue box and is partly designed in a cartoon- like form; Letters float around and the video is equipped with various small messages. For example, after about 26 seconds, the hidden message “ Don't Buy The Black Album , I'm Sorry ” (German: “Don't buy the Black Album , I'm sorry”) can be read. Following the sung line of text “she'll want me from my head to my feet”, Prince takes a small step forward and disappears in the middle of the screen. The message then appears from the same place for about half a second and runs vertically across the screen in dark letters. Other hidden messages include “ heaven is beautiful ” (German: “The sky is beautiful”), “ God I love U ” (German: “God, I love you”) and “ dance 4 the light ” (German: “ Dance for the Brightness ”). The video also shows the Ford Thunderbird that belonged to Prince's father at the time. However, the vehicle is built in 1964 and not, as Prince sings in the lyrics of Alphabet St. , built in 1967.

The video for the song Glam Slam was filmed on May 7, 1988 at Paisley Park Studio during the Lovesexy Tour rehearsals. Prince hired art director Steve Parke to create a set for the music video. When Parke had completed a third of the sets, he heard nothing from Prince. Worried about the opinion of bassist Levi Seacer Jr., he asked how Prince's reaction should be interpreted, to which Seacer replied: “Did Prince say anything to you? No? Well, that means that he likes it ”. Prince wears a blindfold in the video, which he only takes off shortly before the end of the song. Apart from his band members, who also took part on the Lovesexy tour, the Game Boyz can be seen for the first time. The trio consisted of Tony Mosley, Kirk Johnson and Damon Dickson and were founding members of Prince's backing band The New Power Generation in 1990 .

In the music video I Wish U Heaven , Prince, Sheila E. , Cat and Boni Boyer can be seen recurring in an uninterrupted loop in the video. The video was shot on June 2, 1988 in Los Angeles , California at SIR Studio and was directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino , photographer of the album cover Lovesexy . There are two subtly different versions of the music video I Wish U Heaven .

A video of When 2 R in Love had not yet been produced in 1988. Only in 1994 - on the occasion of the release of the Black Album - a music video was shot for the song, because When 2 R in Love was released on both the Lovesexy album and the Black Album .

Cover versions

Occasionally musicians recorded cover versions of songs from the Lovesexy album ; for example, Alphabet St. has been reinterpreted by The Jesus and Mary Chain (1994), Blue States (2001), Julie Griffen (2004) and David Helbock (2012). Anna Stesia was covered by Tanya Vega (2004), Dance On by Capitol K (2001), Susanna Wallumrød (2008) and by Love Motel (2009). When 2 R in Love re- recorded the Japanese singer-songwriter EPO (1991), Bob Belden (1994) and Johnta Austin (2010). I Wish U Heaven covered Darren Hayes (2002) and Positivity Mavis Staples (1993).

tour

Prince's outfit during the lovesexy tour

Typical setlist of Love Sexy tour from July 8, 1988 - February 13, 1989
Erotic City Housequake Slow love Adore Delirious Jack U Off Twelve (A song by the jazz band Madhouse - Prince's side project at the time) Sister Adore # 2 U got the look I want to be your lover Head A love bizarre Blues in C (If I Had a Harem) When You Were Mine Little Red Corvette Pop life Controversy Dirty Mind Superfunkycalifragisexy (1988 unreleased) Controversy # 2 Bob George (1988 unreleased) Anna Stesia Instrumental music (a 10-minute break ended part one of the concert) Eye No. Lovesexy Glam slam The Cross I wish u heaven God Is Alive (unreleased to date (2020)) Kiss Dance On (played as an instrumental version) Drum solo by Sheila E. When 2 R in Love Let's go crazy When Doves Cry Purple Rain 1999 Alphabet St.
Prince is the author of all songs

The European part of the Lovesexy Tour began on July 8, 1988 in Paris in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy and ended on September 9, 1988 in Dortmund in the Westfalenhalle . The 31 concerts in Europe were attended by around 500,000 people and received critical acclaim. The length of the concert varied from 120 to 150 minutes.

The US tour began on September 14, 1988 in Bloomington , Minnesota at the Met Center and ended on November 29, 1988 in Dallas , Texas at the Reunion Arena . The 38 concerts in the USA were attended by approximately 600,000 spectators. While almost all concerts in Europe were sold out, this was not the case in the USA for some concerts and the US lovesexy tour turned into a losing business. The total cost of the stage production of about two million US dollars was not brought in by the US tour. In addition, music critics in the USA were more reluctant to praise than those in Europe. Mo Ostin , then Chairman of the Board of Directors of Warner Bros. Records, said, "As brilliant as he [Prince] is, the audience has a hard time following him."

From February 1, 1989 to February 13, 1989 Prince played eight concerts in Japan, so that the Lovesexy tour included a total of 77 concerts. Prince's backing band consisted of the following eight members during the Lovesexy Tour:

• Atlanta Bliss (real name: Matthew Blistan, born December 14, 1952 in Atlanta , Georgia, school friend of Eric Leeds) - trumpet
• Boni Boyer (real name: Bonita Louisa Boyer, born July 28, 1958 in Washington, DC , † December 4, 1996 in San Pablo , California) - keyboard
• Cat (real name: Catherine Vernice Glover, born July 26, 1964 in Chicago , Illinois) - dancer and backing vocals
• Dr. Fink (real name: Matthew Robert Fink; born February 8, 1957 in St. Louis Park , Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area) - Keyboard
• Eric Leeds (real name: Eric Jeffrey Leeds, born January 19, 1952 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin) - saxophone and flute
• Levi Seacer Jr., (born April 30, 1961 in Richmond , California) - electric bass and rhythm guitarist
• Miko Weaver (born March 11, 1957 in Berkeley , California) - acoustic guitar
• Sheila E. - drums

At some European concerts, Prince played the song Lovesexy as the last piece. In addition, he sometimes included a piano medley, consisting of: When 2 R in Love , Venus de Milo , Condition of the Heart , Raspberry Beret , Strange Relationship and again When 2 R in Love . Occasionally he also integrated the songs How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? , Do Me Baby , Free , Starfish and Coffee , The Ballad of Dorothy Parker , International Lover , The Ladder , Under the Cherry Moon , Girls & Boys and the traditional gospel song It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) .

The final concert of the European part of the tour on September 9, 1988 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle was recorded and released in April 1989 as Lovesexy Live 1 and Lovesexy Live 2 on VHS , Betamax and Laserdisc . The concert has not yet been released on DVD or Blu-ray Disc (as of 2020).

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 1988 Prince played an aftershow at 9 of the 69 concerts on the Lovesexy Tour. Four of these took place in Europe and five in the USA, with guest musicians participating in four of the nine aftershows. On July 26, 1988, Greg Phillinganes , Mavis Staples , Mica Paris and Ron Wood performed as musical guests at Camden Palace in London . At the last show in Europe after August 31, 1988 in Hamburg Grosse Freiheit 36 had Taylor Dayne as a guest singer with.

In the USA on September 15, 1988 in Chanhassen in Prince 'Paisley Park Studio George Clinton , Lisa Coleman , Mavis Staples and Wendy Melvoin were guest musicians. At the aftershow on October 3, 1988 in New York City at the Roseland Ballroom Patti LaBelle was a guest singer.

reception

Press

The reviews of the album Lovesexy were different; while it was praised in Europe, the response in the US was rather muted. The news magazine Der Spiegel described the music as "a rich treasure trove of quotations ... from jazzy inspired to soul harmonies to psychedelic ". The lifestyle magazine Wiener commented: “Touching, stirring, disturbing. No one can make a better record this year. ” The Taz said of the song Glam Slam that it was“ an ingeniously simple structure between counting rhyme, thanksgiving service, nursery rhyme and advertising jingle. ”Thomas Garms from the FAZ called Prince a“ highly talented composer ”and praised: “This talent, largely removed from self-citation, enabled Prince to do something that would otherwise seem unthinkable in the pop business, namely to combine high musical standards with commercial reality. On the one hand, to be able to make 'Music for musicians sake' - that is, to be heard and appreciated by active musicians like Sting or Bryan Ferry - and on the other hand to attract the general public. ”When asked by the FAZ about the greatest composer, Gloria von replied Thurn and Taxis : "Prince"

In the US, some critics viewed Lovesexy as a soulful and experimental record, the musical complexity of which is a continuation of the 1987 album Sign "☮" the Times . Other critics, however, found Lovesexy musically and lyrically excessive. The US music magazine Rolling Stone wrote: "Prince's chaff is indeed often more interesting than the wheat of other musicians, but some of the tracks here are atypically unexciting." Dave Hiltbrand said in the US magazine People : "This is going to be a lot too much auto-erotic noodling ... The typical finely exhausted Prince funk is nowhere to be found. ”The St. Paul Pioneer Press described the album as“ a rash message from a troubled soul. ”The Detroit Free Press said that lovesexy “ for his listeners may need some time to get it under control. "

After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album Lovesexy and gave it three and a half out of six stars. They wrote, among other things, apart from the songs Alphabet St. , Positivity and I Wish U Heaven , “the rest seems a bit hastily put together. He lacks the above-average inspiration and the irresistible crackling ”.

30 years after the publication of Lovesexy , Sassan Niasseri awarded the highest score of five stars from the German edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone in May 2018 . The songs were "outstanding" and Niasseri asked if there had ever been an album by Prince "in which more ideas were processed per song, more interwoven melodies than in Lovesexy ?"

Charts

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	4th (24 weeks)	24
Austria (Ö3)	3 (28 weeks)	28
Switzerland (IFPI)	1 (2) (12 weeks)	12
United Kingdom (OCC)	1 (1) (36 weeks)	36
United States (Billboard)	11 (21 weeks)	21st

Lovesexy received gold status in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Canada and Japan. It also got gold and platinum status in the following countries:

• US: 1 × gold for 500,000 copies sold on December 5, 1988
• DE: 1 × gold for 250,000 copies sold in January 1989
• NZ: 1 × gold for 10,000 copies sold in January 1989
• UK: 1 × platinum for 300,000 copies sold on 23 August 1989
• AT: 1 × gold for 25,000 copies sold on November 10, 1994
• CH: 1 × gold for 25,000 copies sold in 1998
• FR: 2 × gold for 200,000 copies sold on October 18, 2001

While Lovesexy achieved gold status in the US, it was Prince's first album since Controversy in 1981 that failed to reach the US top ten and missed platinum status. Lovesexy sold approximately 750,000 copies in the US, while 1.9 million copies were sold outside the US.

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1988	Alphabet St.	DE18 (11 weeks) DE	-	CH5 (8 weeks) CH	UK9 (6 weeks) UK	US8 (13 weeks) US
	Glam slam	DE33 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK29 (4 weeks) UK	-
	I wish u heaven	DE53 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK24 (5 weeks) UK	-

In the USA, for the first time since Do Me, Baby from 1982 - extracted from the album Controversy - no single from a Prince album made it into the US Top 100; neither Glam Slam nor I Wish U Heaven reached the charts.

Awards

International German Rock Awards (Germany)

• December 3, 1988: Best Pop Album (Pop Album): Lovesexy

Edison Awards (Netherlands)

• February 27, 1989: Best International Pop Album Lovesexy

Minnesota Music Awards (USA)

• May 11, 1989: Album of the Year: Lovesexy

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 .
• 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 .
• Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will the Picture - Funk, Sex and God in the Music of Prince. Faber & Faber Ltd, 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 .
• Jürgen Seibold : Prince. Verlagsunion Erich Pabel-Arthur Moewig, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3078-3 .
• Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X .

Web links

• Princevault , information about the album Lovesexy

Individual evidence

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