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Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958), known from 1993 to 2000 as an unpronouncable symbol (or informally, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Tafkap, or simply The Artist), is a popular American musician. He had the most massive hit song of 1984 with “When Doves Cry” and is best known for his album and movie “Purple Rain”.
As for the mega-superstars only Michael Jackson & Madonna were comparable to Prince only in terms of star power. None could match the formidable breadth of his talents, which included not just singing and dancing but also composing, producing, and playing instruments (not to mention directing videos and movies). In fact, Prince played nearly all the instruments on his first five albums, and has produced himself since signing with Warner Bros. at age 21 (Rolling Stone).

His music has spanned myriad styles; from his early material, rooted in funk and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including new wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz and hip hop. Born in Minneapolis, he has based his entire career in Minnesota. He now resides in Los Angeles.

The distinctive characteristics of the early-to-mid 1980s work that raised him to super-stardom - which includes industrial sounding drum machine arrangements, the use of synthesizer riffs to serve the role of horn riffs traditionally used in earlier R&B, funk and soul music - became known as “the Minneapolis sound”. He has a reputation as a workaholic, having released over a thousand songs both under his own name and through other artists, and is known for having composed and recorded many more songs that remain unreleased.

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nanara wrote:
yesterday evening

I adore his lyrics ..truly original and amazing.

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ci-el wrote:
yesterday morning

Living legend.

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Konkapa wrote:
Thursday morning

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Batiste369 wrote:
Wednesday morning

The King <333333333 [3]

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drphibes wrote:
Tuesday evening

prince is the kind of music i grew up listening to, listened to because i thought it was hilarious as a teenager and have grown to legitimately love as an adult. nothing else quite like him. prince rules.

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pikypink wrote:
Tuesday evening

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M4R1LIA wrote:
Tuesday evening

love new pic!

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TOURNIQUETE wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

wow este cabron fue idolo de michael jackson y de lenny kravitz, y no es tan famoso como ellos, pero eso ya nadie se lo kita

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tomgaj wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Planet Earth was initially added to the Daily Mail, so the package is in a very economical edition. In a normal music store you can get the normal edition.

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ShinjiPG wrote:
Monday morning

I bought Planet Earth and I'm wondering where do I find the tracklist in the package lol. Anyone knows?

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BackNDaDay90 wrote:
Sunday evening

check out my group. http://www.last.fm/group/I+Love+the+80s! this week's throwback video comes from prince.

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lolzunicorn wrote:
Sunday morning

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MrLJM wrote:
Sunday morning

Fine. Maybe I'm not as up-to-date on Prince as I thought I was. Also, I never said that he's "lost his guitar".

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Trelock wrote:
last week

I live in London and was lucky enough to see Prince at the O2 twice on his 21 nights tour..... it was completely sold out, he effectively played to about a million people between August and September 2007. That is not waning popularity, whetever it may be. very few if any artists would be able to sustain that let alone attract those numbers, even the big boys and girls of today's pop culture. Add to that the fact that each night had a different line up and feel, he wasn't exactly playing the same set 21times. Brilliant. I don't agree that he has lost his guitar either... even tracks like Get Off and Melt with u are heavily ladden with guitar, you just have to listen for it beneath the techno.

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MrLJM wrote:
last week

Well, I'm only going by how we seem to feel about him now. I wouldn't know about his popularity here in the early 90s, but his success here at that time does surprise me.

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
last week

Actually, in the late 80s and early 90s, Prince was more successful in the UK than he was here. At least in terms of charts. For example, Lovesexy peaked right outside the US top 10 and quickly tumbled down. But it did exceptionally well in the UK, where it went to #1 and had a string of successful singles. Only "Alphabet St." would be a hit here.

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MrLJM wrote:
last week

Although I think that has something to do with the fact that us Brits haven't taken to him as much as you Americans. I only know ONE Prince fan (other than myself, of course). Whenever I ask someone if they like Prince, they either say he's "I don't like him!" or they say "He's weird!"

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MrLJM wrote:
last week

Fair enough. I guess I underestimated his popularity.

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
last week

Of course, but what artist IS shifting those numbers these days? 3121 debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 back in 2006 and quickly went Gold. Musicology, before that, went on to sell over 2 million copies in the U.S. More that solid proof that plenty of people out there are still getting their Prince on.

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MrLJM wrote:
last week

@hotterthanjuly - He's definitely not as popular now as he was in the early/mid 80s. You can bet that most of the albums that have been sold are from albums he did around that period. I don't think his 90s and 00s work will have sold as much as "Purple Rain", "1999" and "Sign 'O' The Times". That's what I mean by he's not "in" at the moment. Sure, people will buy his classic work, but I don't his more recent stuff attracts as many people.

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