Purple Rain 40th Anniversary

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Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ at 40: Here’s What Happened When It Stormed Our Charts​

Four decades ago, Prince & the Revolution ruled the Billboard charts.
Big Brother was supposed to take over in 1984 — not a 5’2”, 26-year-old musical polymath from Minnesota. But with the June 25, 1984, release of Purple Rain, Prince took his throne as a global pop star. The album “was like a magic bullet,” Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin tells Billboard ahead of Celebration 2024, a five-day Minneapolis party with performances from The Revolution, Morris Day and New Power Generation. “He knew there was lightning in a bottle.”

Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ at 40: Here’s What Happened When It Stormed Our Charts

Prince's 'Purple Rain' at 40: How Billboard tracked Prince's reign over the charts

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Damn!

 

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Damn!

damn good music

 

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damn good music

Preach brother!!!

 

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Top 50 American Rock Albums
3. Prince and the Revolution, 'Purple Rain' (1984)
Everything pointed to Prince's sixth LP to be his breakthrough: the buildup from its predecessor 1999, the growing buzz, MTV's breaking down of racial lines. That Purple Rain exceeded all expectations was realized once the de facto soundtrack was released at the start of the summer of 1984. The music was inescapable for a year: "When Doves Cry," "Let's Go Crazy," the title song. It's hard to find a more perfect album.

Top 50 American Rock Albums

A list of the Top 50 American Rock Albums.

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“Ain’t nobody gonna believe I’d do this”: What Prince said to his engineer when he “unproduced” When Doves Cry and removed the bassline​

By Ben Rogerson
( Computer Music, Future Music, emusician )
published 13 July 2024
We celebrate the pioneering genius of the man from Minneapolis

“Ain’t nobody gonna believe I’d do this”: What Prince said to his engineer when he “unproduced” When Doves Cry and removed the bassline

We celebrate the pioneering genius of the man from Minneapolis

www.musicradar.com

 

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“Ain’t nobody gonna believe I’d do this”: What Prince said to his engineer when he “unproduced” When Doves Cry and removed the bassline

We celebrate the pioneering genius of the man from Minneapolis

www.musicradar.com

oh that's quite an interesting read.