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I saw Prince play at the Hydro a couple of years ago and I still get a buzz from thinking back at how good it was. A lot of his music sounded even better live. Hopefully more will be released in a proper manner in the future and we will have more to enjoy.Īs my tribute to one of the greatest live artists ever, I thought an Imaginary Live Compilation Album of Prince would show off the wee man’s versatility and brilliance throughout his career. Some has leaked out over the years and there is a lot of fantastic songs there. He had brought out 4 albums in just over 18 months and there was talk of more to come.Īs he predicted, I do disagree with Jacques in that there is a lot of great stuff in the Vault. Prince however had still so much to give. Bowie bowed out with the masterpiece that is Blackstar, and it just seemed like the perfect end to a legendary career. He was my second biggest hero in music after Bowie and, like Jacques, it actually hit me harder than Bowie. I enoyed reading Jacques the Kipper’s recent tribute on Prince. Seemingly composed as a rejoinder to Sheena Easton, but it takes a special kind of genius deviant to do so by way of a lyric that refers to a dog’s affair with a cat….
It’s not one that can be described as a masterpiece but it stands up to repeated listens:. I’m not an avid collector of vinyl, albeit I’ve a substantial amount sitting in Villain Towers, but I really felt that it would never be complete without this, albeit the track was readily available through a Greatest Hits CD that I bought a long time ago. I picked up a 7” vinyl copy of the single a short while back. It was like a brilliantly argued column in a newspaper put to music. And what a lyric it was…a sermon that called for action without resorting to bellowing or shouting from the roof tops.
It’s a song that sounded unlike anything else he’d done up to that point with more reliance on a synthesiser and catchy electronic drum pattern (I was tempted to describe it as infectious but that would be poor taste given that AIDS is one of the issues addressed in the lyric). It was a bit of a surprise to learn that everything you hear, other than some backing vocals, was provided by Prince. Nowadays it is a simple task to read about the background to the song and the recording process that was undertaken.
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My consumption was mainly through radio and TV and so I’d have heard this and caught the video a fair bit, not only for the fact that it reached #10 in the singles charts but as it proved to be one of those songs that was retained on playlists for many months afterwards on account of most folk declaring it instantly as a classic. This coincided with the period when I wasn’t paying as much attention to pop music as I had in previous years. It is now exactly 30 years since this single was released with the album of the same name following a month later.
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It’s just a concept kicking around in my head at the moment and it’ll probably take some chill out time on a Caribbean beach between now and June 2018 to come to full fruition.īut I can guarantee that this will feature in any rundown:.
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I’m already thinking of a 55 45s at 55 series in which I’ll feature songs that I either discovered late or didn’t buy immediately at the time of release for one reason or another. The singles however, could only qualify if they, or the parent album they had been lifted from, had been purchased at the time of release and as such, a great many wonderful records missed out. It was a series featuring favourite singles around which, sort of, I provided much of the story of my life through anecdotes. I’m less than 18 months away from turning 55 and so it’s fast approaching the tenth anniversary of the 45 45s at 45 series.
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