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Prince and The Revolution Purple Rain (1984–1985) Prince and The Revolution's best-selling album, Purple Rain, produced by Prince and The Revolution themselves, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 knocking Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. from the number one spot.
- 1979–1986, 2012, 2016–present
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
The last albums credited to Prince and the Revolution were 1985’s Around the World In A Day & 1986’s Parade. “The Revolution” was originally the live backing band for Prince in the early...
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- Sign O’ The Times (1987) After Parade, Prince worked on several ultimately shelved projects as the Revolution fell apart, including the original Crystal Ball, Dream Factory, and Camille, before the wealth of material coalesced into its final form.
- Purple Rain (1984) Soundtrack LPs were big business in the ‘80s. Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, The Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop — any box office hit with a big, silly synth pop song playing over a montage sent Americans to record stores in droves.
- 1999 (1982) Roger Linn introduced his LM-1 Drum Computer and its successor, the LinnDrum, into the marketplace in the early ‘80s — and, at the time, he wasn’t sure if it would be a niche product primarily used for demos.
- Parade (1986) Parade’s opening suite — four songs that together run over nine minutes — is all the more remarkable because Prince reportedly laid down drums for the entire sequence in one take.
While Prince's previous albums were primarily solo recordings by Prince, Purple Rain contained the credits "produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince and the Revolution", though he had teased the name two years earlier on 1999, writing "and the Revolution" backwards on the album cover.
- Prince and the Revolution
- June 25, 1984
- July 1983 – March 1984
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Jun 4, 2022 · Prince & The Revolution: Prince and the Revolution: Live. Remastered, rescanned, and color corrected after years languishing in Paisley Park’s vault, the 1985 concert film and its...
The album produced two #1 pop hits with the first two singles, “When Doves Cry” and “Let’s Go Crazy,” while “Purple Rain” and “I Would Die 4 U” were both Top 10 singles.
