I remember seeing this on ‘Top Of The Pops’ and being one of the few people who went to see Prince’s film ‘Under The Cherry Moon’ at the cinema. In these enlightened and modern times this film would have gone ‘straight to video’ but when it was made back in 1986 video was still in its infancy and third rate movies still managed to get a shorter cinema run - however this movie did end up at the budget Canon cinema, but I went with a bunch of pals and had a great time!
Despite the fact the ‘purple one’ is not the greatest actor in the world he is one of the greatest musicians and over the years he has produced some truly great records. I was lucky enough to go and see him at the O2 in London when he did his 21 nights in London shows back in 2007. Rumour has it that he rehearsed some 130 or so of his songs with the band but decided what to do each night giving longer performances when in a good mood and feeling a greater rapport with the audience and less when the rapport was less dynamic. Whether that is true or not I don’t know but it was amazing to go and see and hear him in person and the acoustics of the O2 arena being a modern building are truly amazing.
This is one of my favourite songs however Prince is a spoil sport who won’t let his music be downloaded onto ‘You Tube’ so for today unless you have this in your collection your snookered!!
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