Prince died four years ago today. Check out our list of the Purple One’s 25 essential songs
After “When Doves Cry” dominated pop radio throughout the late summer and early fall of 1984, the Number One smash “Let’s Go Crazy” was as much a victory lap as an advertisement for thefeature film. The full-bodied funk rock flourishes and allusions to Jimi Hendrix were made with the help of the Revolution, who briefly became the most famous backing unit in America.
“Matt, knowing Prince so well and knowing what he liked, got that solo on the third take and we kept replaying it over and over again, because it was just great to listen to.”generated murmurs that Prince was selling out to the AOR crowd, he told MTV in 1985, “I was brought up in a black and white world. Yes, black and white, night and day, rich and poor, black and white.
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