Purple Rain (Album)
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Purple Rain ( English for Purple Rain ) is the sixth studio album by the US musician Prince . He recorded it with his backing band The Revolution and released it on June 25, 1984 on the Warner Bros. Records label . The album serves as the soundtrack for the film of the same name Purple Rain and Prince achieved an international commercial breakthrough with this album; Purple Rain was number one on the US album hit parade for 24 weeks and is the most successful album of his career with 25 million copies sold worldwide (as of 2017). It got an Oscar and two Grammy Awards . The Purple Rain Tour became the most successful tour in Prince's career with 1.75 million viewers.
The music on the album belongs to the genre R&B , dance , electro funk , funk , pop and rock , the lyrics are about love, spirituality and sexual personalities. The song Darling Nikki was decisive for the fact that in the USA the warning “ Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics ” was introduced on music publications. Music critics rated the album Purple Rain very positively and in 2011 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame .
On June 23, 2017, Warner Bros. Records and NPG Records posthumously released a revised version of the album called Purple Rain Deluxe .
Emergence
As the first song for the Purple Rain album, Prince recorded Let's Go Crazy on May 18, 1983 in his then private recording studio Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota. On June 15th he played the two songs Baby, I'm a Star and I Would Die 4 U at a rehearsal in a warehouse called The Warehouse in St. Louis Park in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area. Prince wrote a first version of Baby, I'm a Star in the summer of 1981, but the June 1983 version is very different. It is similar with the piece I Would Die 4 U , which he composed in 1982 and played on February 15, 1982 in San Francisco , California at a soundcheck . But the recording from June 1983 is the first with his then newly formed backing band The Revolution . Prince recorded the title song Purple Rain in The Warehouse in the summer of 1983, an acoustic version can be heard posthumously on the album Piano & A Microphone 1983 (2018) , which Prince recorded in October 1983 and only plays the piano . However, this version differs significantly from the published version. In late July 1983, Prince Darling played Nikki at the Kiowa Trail Home Studio, which was his last song in collaboration with sound engineer Don Batts. Prince recorded vocal overdubs for Darling Nikki a few days later with sound engineer Susan Rogers (* 1956).
On August 3, 1983, Prince played The Revolution in a benefit concert in Minneapolis , Minnesota at the First Avenue Music Club. This concert, at which Prince played the then unreleased songs Let's Go Crazy , Computer Blue , I Would Die 4 U , Baby I'm a Star and Purple Rain , was recorded by the sound engineers David Leonard and David Z. Rivkin. Let's Go Crazy , including overdubs, made Prince overhaul on August 7th at The Warehouse, and the next day he also recorded Computer Blue there. Prince also recorded 17 Days at the Kiowa Trail Home Studio in August 1983 , which was selected as the b-side of the single from When Doves Cry in May 1984 . In addition, 17 Days was also placed as a piano version on the album Piano & A Microphone 1983 , which Prince recorded in October 1983 and is clearly different.
From August 15, 1983 to September 28, 1983, Prince worked for six weeks with engineer Peggy McCreary at the Sunset Sound studio in Los Angeles , California, where he overdubs the songs Computer Blue and Purple Rain on the first day . On August 18, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman recorded the intro to Computer Blue and did the backing vocals . Prince also added stringed instruments and other overdubs to the songs Baby, I'm a Star and Purple Rain .
While in Los Angeles, Prince made a guest appearance - along with Michael Jackson - on August 20, 1983 at a James Brown concert at the Beverly Theater. Prince only played the guitar briefly and left the stage after a few minutes.
On August 31, 1983, Prince reworked the two songs Computer Blue - the original version can be heard on Purple Rain Deluxe (2017) - and I Would Die 4 U in Sunset Sound , and a day later he added I Would Die 4 U and Baby, I'm a Star, add guitar overdubs. Prince worked on the song Purple Rain from September 13th to September 15th, Darling Nikki revised it on September 19th and on September 20th 1983 he recorded the song The Beautiful Ones on Sunset Sound .
After Prince had finished his work in Sunset Sound on September 28, 1983, he rented the recording studio in Los Angeles again, where he reworked the three songs The Beautiful Ones , I Would Die 4 U and Purple Rain on October 5, 1983 . Prince recorded the track Wednesday on October 23, 1983 at the Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, but was only released posthumously on Piano & A Microphone in 1983 . He recorded the instrumental piece Father's Song , which also appeared posthumously on Purple Rain Deluxe , on October 24th at the Kiowa Trail Home Studio.
On November 7, 1983, Prince presented the Warner Bros. Records label with a rough version of the Purple Rain album with the following tracklist :
| No. | song | length | annotation |
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| A-1 | Let's go crazy | 7:35 | Special Dance Remix |
| A-2 | The Beautiful Ones | 6:10 | longer version |
| A-3 | Computer Blue | 12:28 | Hallway Speech version |
| A-4 | Darling Nikki | 4:01 | without a backward message |
| A-5 | Wednesday | 1:59 | 2018 on Piano & A Microphone 1983 |
| B-1 | Purple Rain | 10:44 | longer version |
| B-2 | I would die 4 u | 3:23 | longer version |
| B-3 | Baby, I'm a star | 4:18 | identical |
| B-4 | Father's Song | 5:30 | 2017 on Purple Rain Deluxe |
From December 27, 1983 to April 14, 1984, Prince worked again in Los Angeles to complete the Purple Rain album in Sunset Sound. During this time, the twin sisters Wendy and Susannah Melvoin and the siblings Lisa and David Coleman were often present as musical guests in Prince's studio. On January 22, 1984 Prince recorded the song Take Me with U , which he worked on until January 31. He originally placed the track on the album of his side project Apollonia 6 , but later decided to use it for Purple Rain . The last song Prince recorded on March 1, 1984, When Doves Cry , which he worked on until March 7, and on March 26, he completed the album Purple Rain . Prince added Take Me with U to the album on April 14, 1984.
music
Musical style
The music on the album Purple Rain is a stylistic combination of the music genres R&B , funk and soul . However, the genre of rock music plays a central role . The song Let's Go Crazy is a rock 'n' roll piece that is characterized by the use of guitars. The Beautiful Ones and the song Purple Rain are rock ballads . In addition, Prince uses synthesizers and the Linn LM-1 as drum computers on the album , with which he penetrates music genres such as electronic dance music and electro funk . Examples of this are the songs Computer Blue , I Would Die 4 U , Baby I'm a Star and especially the song When Doves Cry ; In this song, which works without a bass , staccato figures dominate the keyboards .
Lyrics and singing
Four songs on the album deal directly or indirectly with the conviction that the coming afterlife holds the promise of absolute freedom; Let's Go Crazy deals with the subject of the afterlife , Take Me with U surrenders Prince to a greater power - a love that is beyond his control. In the song I Would Die 4 U , Prince defines himself as a being who cannot be grasped in earthly terms and who would give his life for a better world. In the song Purple Rain he describes a kind of metaphysical Promised Land . In his lyrics , Prince uses various metaphors on these and other subjects .
The Beautiful Ones describes Prince's jealousy of another man who is in a relationship with the woman Prince also desires. According to Prince's then sound engineer Peggy McCreary, he wrote this song based on Susannah Melvoin - the twin sister of Wendy Melvoin . When Doves Cry is about losing love and being left alone.
The song Darling Nikki was decisive in 1984 for the introduction of the warning “ Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics ” on music publications in the USA on the initiative of Tipper Gore . Tipper Gore was snubbed when her then eleven-year-old daughter heard the line in the song “ I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine ” (German: “I met her in the hotel lobby , masturbating with a magazine”).
In addition to his characteristic falsetto singing , Prince also uses lower voices on the album.
Backward message
On the album Purple Rain , backward messages are hidden in two songs ; At the end of the song, Darling Nikki contains the phrase “ Hello! How are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soon ... coming, coming soon! "(German:" Hello! How are you? I'm fine. Because I know that the Lord is coming soon ... is coming, coming soon! ")
In the song Baby I'm A Star , the following sentence is spoken backwards in the background at the beginning and at the end: “ Like what the fuck do they know. All their taste is in their mouth. Really. What the fuck do they know? Come on baby Let's go ... crazy. "(German:" What the hell do you know. All your taste is in your mouth. Really. What the hell do you know? Come on, baby. Let's play ... crazy. ")
Title list and publications
| No. | song | author | length |
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| 1 | Let's go crazy | Prince and The Revolution | 4:39 |
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Take Me with U (Duet with Apollonia Kotero ) |
Prince | 3:53 |
| 3 | The Beautiful Ones | Prince | 5:14 |
| 4th | Computer Blue | Prince, Lisa Coleman , Dr. Fink, Wendy Melvoin , John L. Nelson | 3:59 |
| 5 | Darling Nikki | Prince | 4:13 |
| 6th | When Doves Cry | Prince | 5:51 |
| 7th | I would die 4 u | Prince and The Revolution | 2:49 |
| 8th | Baby I'm a star | Prince and The Revolution | 4:23 |
| 9 | Purple Rain | Prince and The Revolution | 8:40 |
Purple Rain was released on June 25, 1984 in the United States on record and compact cassette . The album was released in the UK on July 13, 1984, and later Purple Rain was also released on compact disc . On June 23, 2017, Warner Bros. Records and NPG Records released a revised version of the album called Purple Rain Deluxe .
Singles
Five singles were released from the album Purple Rain : When Doves Cry was released as a single edit version on May 16, 1984, which is 3:48 minutes long. The B-side song 17 Days was previously unreleased. The single version of Let's Go Crazy was released on July 18, 1984 and is shortened to 3:46 minutes. The B-side song Erotic City was also previously unreleased. The third single was released on September 10, 1984, the song Purple Rain , the release in the USA on September 26th. Purple Rain was also released in a shortened single-edit version with a length of 4:04 minutes. The B-side God song was also previously unreleased.
I Would Die 4 U was released on November 26, 1984, in the US on November 28. The single version is 2:56 minutes long, which is seven seconds longer than the album version. Since the album version merges seamlessly into the next song Baby I'm A Star , the last few seconds of the song are not played. Another Lonely Christmas is the fourth song that was previously unreleased and served as the B-side of a single. Take Me with U was released on January 25, 1985, but not in Europe. The B-side of the single is Baby I'm A Star , which is identical to the album version.
Music videos
With When Doves Cry , Let's Go Crazy , Purple Rain , I Would Die 4 U , Baby, I'm a Star and Take Me with U, Prince released six music videos for songs from the album Purple Rain . At the beginning of the music video for When Doves Cry , Prince gets out of a bathtub and crawls bare on all fours on the floor. The camera perspective is set so that Prince's lower body cannot be seen. Towards the end of the video you can see a dance choreography by Prince with his companion band The Revolution, which is not fully included in the shortened single version of the video. The music video also shows excerpts from the film Purple Rain .
The music video for Let's Go Crazy shows various scenes from the film Purple Rain . The music video for Purple Rain is taken directly from the film of the same name and shows Prince performing the song at the First Avenue music club . I Would Die 4 U and Baby, I'm a Star will perform live versions of a Purple Rain concert on November 20, 1984 in Landover, Maryland at the Capital Center . Take Me with U is a live version of a Purple Rain concert from January 1985 in Houston , Texas at The Summit .
Cover versions
All songs on the album have cover versions from a wide variety of music genres. Let's Go Crazy , for example, was re-recorded by Pankow (1990), Good Clean Fun (2000), Gun (2005) and Riverboat Gamblers (2009). Also published Weird Al Yankovic with Traffic Jam (1993), a parody of the song. Take Me with U was covered by Monte Warden (1998), Sharleen Spiteri (2010) and Tillery (2016). The Beautiful Ones interpreted Fireside (1995), Mariah Carey (1997) and The Bad Plus (2016). Computer Blue was re-recorded by Randy (1995) and Of Montreal (2009). Darling Nikki re- recorded Mucky Pup (1993), Whale (1995), Asylum Street Spankers (1998), Talisman (1998), Foo Fighters (2003), Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (2006) and Chairlift (2009). I Would Die 4 U covered Missing Persons (1999), Space Cowboy (2003), Raheem DeVaughn (2010), White Lies (2013), El Perro del Mar (2016), Chris Brokaw (2017). Baby, I'm a Star interpreted Buddy Miles (1999) and Tina Turner (2000).
When Doves Cry covered The Flying Pickets (1994), Ani DiFranco (1997), Ginuwine (1997), Barenaked Ladies (2001), Patti Smith (2002), Guy Sebastian (2003), Damien Rice (2005), Razorlight (2007) , Alex Clare (2011), Scala & Kolacny Brothers (2012) and Sarah Jarosz (2017). In addition, are samples of When Doves Cry in the songs Pray (1990) by MC Hammer and the rest in Purple (2016) by The Game integrated. In addition, the US post-disco hip-hopper Captain Rapp released the song When Doves Cry Rapp (1984) and Joey Badass When Thugs Cry (2018), both of which are based on When Doves Cry .
Purple Rain recorded Chris Hunter (1986), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1995), Teddybears Sthlm (1995), LeAnn Rimes (1998), Lucky Peterson (1998), Neil Zaza (2001), Alkbottle (2004), Etta James (2006) , Virgin Steele (2008), Aynsley Lister (2010), Elkie Brooks (2010), Dami Im (2016), Dwight Yoakam (2013), Jordan Rudess (2016), David Garrett (2017) and Helmut Lotti (2018) .
The B-sides 17 Days and Erotic City were also covered by musicians; 17 Days re- recorded Living Color (1993) and Dâm-Funk (2012), and Erotic City was created by Arto Lindsay (1996), Semisonic (1998), Mardi Gras.bb (2000), George Clinton (2004) and the Band Berlin (2005) interpreted.
In 2014, the two musicians Brian took Leiser and Frank Benbini by the band Fun Lovin 'Criminals under the pseudonym Radio Riddler the Purple Rain album from scratch, but named it Purple Reggae around because all the songs to the music genre reggae fusion in combination can be assigned to pop music . The two engaged guest musicians for each song; For example, Graham McPherson sings Let's Go Crazy under his pseudonym “Suggs” , Citizen Cope performs When Doves Cry , Sinéad O'Connor performs I Would Die 4 U , Beverley Knight can be heard in the song Baby, I'm a Star and Ali Campbell took over the lead vocals in Purple Rain .
tour
| Typical setlist of the Purple Rain tour from November 4, 1984 - April 7, 1985 |
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The Purple Rain tour was the most commercially successful tour in Prince's career, beginning on November 4, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan at the Joe Louis Arena and ending on April 7, 1985 in Miami, Florida at Orange Bowl Stadium . The tour included 98 concerts, 96 of them in the USA and two in Toronto (Canada), grossed 30 million US dollars and was attended by a total of around 1.75 million people. The total cost of the stage production was about $ 300,000, and the audience capacity of the concert halls typically varied between 15,000 and 20,000 seats - Prince also occasionally appeared in stadiums with a larger audience. The concert lengths during the Purple Rain tour varied between 90 and 120 minutes. Sheila E. appeared as the opening act with her backing band and played for about 40 minutes. Prince's backing band The Revolution consisted of the following five members:
- Bobby Z. (born Robert B. Rivkin on January 9, 1956 ) - drums
- Brown Mark (born March 8, 1962 as Mark Brown ) - bass guitar
- Dr. Fink (born February 8, 1957 as Matthew Robert Fink ) - keyboard
- Lisa Coleman (born August 17, 1960) - keyboard
- Wendy Melvoin (born Wendy Ann Melvoin on January 26, 1964 ) - acoustic guitar
Sheila E. and some of her band members as well as members of Apollonia 6 often danced and sang on stage with Prince's penultimate song Baby I'm a Star . At some concerts, Prince also played songs like How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? , Let's Pretend We're Married , Do Me Baby , When You Were Mine and Head . On the piano , Prince occasionally played the songs Dirty Mind , I Wanna Be Your Lover , Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) , With You , Still Waiting , Noon Rendezvous - Prince wrote the song for Sheila E. - and A Case of You by Joni Mitchell .
The Purple Rain concert on March 30, 1985 in Syracuse (New York) in New York in the Carrier Dome was broadcast live in Europe and followed by around 12 to 15 million people. At this concert, Prince played the songs Irresitible Bitch , Possessed and International Lover, among others . On July 29, 1985, the concert was released under the title Prince and the Revolution: Live on VHS , Betamax and Laserdisc . It was released on DVD on June 23, 2017 in the Expanded Edition of Purple Rain Deluxe ; it has not yet been released on Blu-ray Disc . On August 9, 1988, the VHS in the USA was awarded double platinum status for 100,000 copies sold.
Before the last Purple Rain concert on April 7, 1985 in the Orange Bowl Stadium, which was renamed "Purple Bowl" for that evening, the then Prince manager Steve Fargnoli (* 1949, † 2001) announced this in a press release will be his last live concert "indefinitely". As it turned out, however, Prince played a live concert in Saint Paul (Minnesota) in the Prom Ballroom two months later on June 7, 1985, his 27th birthday .
reception
Press
The reviews of the album were partly very positive. The US-American news magazine Newsweek headlined - also with regard to the successful film Purple Rain - about the album: "The new Prince of Hollywood". Hansi Hoff from the German music magazine Musikexpress / Sounds - today Musikexpress - said: “Hard penetration is required, and Prince can rehearse the guttural orgasm in a horribly beautiful way . Don't say anything, I'll do it, his musical instruction seems to be, pompous, sweating, but always hard as glass and ruthlessly brutal. The texts once again slippery to the point of complete excess, pornographically beautiful to join in. In the heat of the act, right in the middle, Prince introduces you. " Kurt Loder of the American music magazine Rolling Stone compared Prince with other musicians:" Like Jimi [sic] and Sly [sic], Prince is an original, but apart from that he's like no one else. ”The national US daily The Miami Herald wrote:“ Purple Rain once again proves its versatility and substance as a live artist and composer. ”The US daily Los Angeles Times , on the other hand, said:“ His top-class lyrics and sexual boasting is now being replaced by more conventional language. It seems like Prince's music has lost some of its experimental character. "
In 1988, the composer Heiner Goebbels emphasized the eclecticism in Prince's music in a contemporary analysis in the weekly newspaper , as “it is a reflective process, equipped with restraint, taste and historical awareness, which advances our modes of perception and at the same time processes memories. "
In 2009 the Süddeutsche Zeitung analyzed that the effect of the album was mainly due to "the attitude behind the music". This "differed from the competition: Prince replaced the eighties ideal of the musician as a hybrid machine being and in his ruffled shirts acted like a romantic virtuoso of the 19th century."
In 2010 was Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic the album the maximum number of five stars; it is one of the most exciting rock albums that has ever been recorded. In 2014, 30 years after the publication of Purple Rain , the album was reviewed by Sassan Niasseri from the German edition of the US music magazine Rolling Stone . He gave four stars out of five and said, "The big moments are up front and they make Purple Rain at least Prince's best record in rock," including Let's Go Crazy , The Beautiful Ones , Computer Blue and Darling praised Nikki very highly. When Doves Cry is "the most striking of the nine songs". With the songs I Would Die 4 U , Baby, I'm a Star and Purple Rain , Prince released “the most common, in the worst sense, friendliest pieces of his career”. "These songs have nothing to do with the sex Prince had thrashed forward with since the early eighties."
After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from Musikexpress reviewed the album Purple Rain and gave it four and a half out of six stars. Among other things, they wrote: “The title song is, let's be honest, just too much. With Let's Go Crazy it comes to attention toward rock opera . On the other hand, there are flashes of inspiration like When Doves Cry or the shrill darling Nikki . "
Charts
| ChartsChart placements | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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5 (54 weeks) | 54 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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8th (28 weeks) | 28 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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7th (39 weeks) | 39 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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4th (107 weeks) | 107 |
 United States (Billboard)
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1 (24) (... Where.) | ... |
The album reached its top ranking in the UK in May 2016 after Prince's death, and in 1984 it reached number 7. Since 1984, Purple Rain has sold around 25 million copies worldwide and was number one on the US album charts for 24 consecutive weeks. The album has been awarded gold and platinum status several times internationally:
- CA: 6 × platinum for 600,000 copies sold on December 1, 1984
- AT: 1 × gold for 25,000 copies sold in 1987
- CH: 1 × platinum for 50,000 copies sold in 1989
- UK: 2 × platinum for 600,000 copies sold on May 1, 1990
- FR: 1 × platinum for 300,000 copies sold in 1990
- US: 1 × diamond for 10,000,000 plus 3 × platinum for 3,000,000 for a total of 13 million copies sold on May 16, 1996
- AU: 3 × platinum for 210,000 copies sold in November 1996
- NZ: 5 × platinum for 75,000 copies sold on May 23, 2016
- DE: 3 × gold for 750,000 copies sold on May 25, 2016
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| 1984 | When Doves Cry |
DE16 (18 weeks) DE |
AT19 (2 weeks) AT |
CH17 (9 weeks) CH |
UK4th  (15 weeks)UK |
US1 (5)  (21 weeks)US |
• US: August 21, 1984: Platinum (2,000,000+)
• UK: June 26, 2020: Gold (400,000+) |
| Let's go crazy | - | - | - |
UK7 (10 weeks) UK |
US1 (2) (19 weeks)US |
• US: November 7, 1984: Gold (1,000,000+)
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| Purple Rain |
DE5 (16 weeks) DE |
AT4 (12 weeks) AT |
CH5 (11 weeks) CH |
UK8th (16 weeks)UK |
US2 (16 weeks)US |
• US: December 5, 1984: Gold (1,000,000+)
• UK: January 25, 2019: Platinum (600,000+) |
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| I would die 4 u | - | - | - |
UK58 (8 weeks) UK |
US8 (15 weeks) US |
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| 1985 | Take Me with U (Duet with Apollonia Kotero ) | DEnvDE | ATnvAT | CHnvCH | UKnvUK |
US25 (12 weeks) US |
• Not decoupled in Europe
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| 2016 | Purple Rain |
DE13 (1 week) DE |
AT7 (2 weeks) AT |
CH4 (3 weeks) CH |
UK6 (3 weeks) UK |
US4 (2 weeks) US |
• Posthumous re-entry on April 22, 2016
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| When Doves Cry |
DE49 (1 week) DE |
AT59 (1 week) AT |
CH34 (1 week) CH |
UK26 (1 week) UK |
US8 (2 weeks) US |
• Posthumous re-entry on April 29, 2016
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| Let's go crazy | - | - | - | - |
US25 (2 weeks) US |
• Posthumous re-entry on May 7, 2016
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| I would die 4 u | - | - | - | - |
US39 (1 week) US |
• Posthumous re-entry on May 14, 2016
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Awards
In 2010, the US music magazine Rolling Stone compiled a list of The 500 Best Songs of All Time , including When Doves Cry at number 52 and Purple Rain at number 144. In 2020, the same magazine voted the album Purple Rain at number 8 of The 500 Best Albums of All Time . Prince also received the following awards for the album:
American Music Awards
- 1985: Favorite Pop / Rock Album: Purple Rain
- 1985: Favorite Soul / R & B Album: Purple Rain
- 1985: Favorite Soul / R & B single: When Doves Cry
- 2016: ¹ Best Soundtrack (Top Soundtrack): Purple Rain
¹ This award was posthumously awarded to Prince on November 20, 2016
BRIT Awards
- 1985: Best International Solo Artist: Prince
- 1985: Best Soundtrack / Cast Recording: Purple Rain
Grammy Awards
- 1985: Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special: Purple Rain (Composition: Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin )
- 1985: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or a Group with Vocal: Purple Rain (Single) by Prince and The Revolution
- 1985: Best R&B Song: I Feel for You by Chaka Khan ( Author : Prince)
Grammy Hall of Fame
- 2011: Purple Rain (album)
National Recording Registry
- 2011: Sound documents that are described as particularly worth preserving: Purple Rain (album)
Oscar
- 1985: Best Original Song Score: Purple Rain
World Soundtrack Award
- In 2004 Prince received a Special Award for the album Purple Rain .
literature
- Alex Hahn: Obsessed - Prince's turbulent life. Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-610-0 .
- 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 .
- Dave Hill: Prince - A Pop Life. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-426-04036-0 .
- Duane Tudahl: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-5381-1462-9 .
- Jake Brown: Prince in the Studio (1975-1995). Colossus Books, Phoenix 2010, ISBN 978-0-9790976-6-9 .
- 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 .
- Jürgen Seibold : Prince. Verlagsunion Erich Pabel-Arthur Moewig, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3078-3 .
- Per Nilsen: DanceMusicSexRomance - Prince: The First Decade. Firefly Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 0-946719-23-3 .
- Roland Mischke: From Nobody to Pop Prince. Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1989, ISBN 3-404-61157-8 .
- 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 Purple Rain
- Carla Schriever: Darling Nikki . In: Songlexikon ; accessed on January 8, 2019.
Individual evidence
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