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40 years of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ : World Cafe : World Cafe Phrases and Music Podcast : NPR

Prince’s Purple Rain

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Prince’s Purple Rain

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  • “Let’s Go Loopy”
  • “When Doves Cry”
  • “I Would Die 4 U”
  • “Purple Rain”

Forty years in the past this summer time, Prince scored his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. Purple Rain, the soundtrack to his massively profitable movie, additionally earned him a few Grammy Awards and an Oscar for greatest authentic tune rating.

On this session, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison talks in regards to the album, and movie, that raised Prince’s profession to a different degree and helped construct his mythology.

“It is type of like a messy, not-so-sympathetic story. It leaves me questioning how a lot of it’s true and the way a lot of it’s fiction,” Morrison says.

He additionally talks about how there’s one other timeline, the place the titular tune is not even a Prince tune in any respect.

“Prince initially wrote ‘Purple Rain’ as a rustic ballad for Stevie Nicks to sing,” he says.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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