Prince wrote “Manic Monday” in 1984, and recorded it as a duet for the band Apollonia 6’s self-titled album, but he eventually pulled the song.
Prince wrote this alliterative song under the name “Christopher” (the name of his character in his movie Under the Cherry Moon), and it became the Bangles’ first hit. The purple one discovered the group after coming across the video for one of their early singles, “Hero Takes a Fall,” on MTV. He showed up at a Bangles gig in Los Angeles, then he put together a very special mixtape for the group – one with two original songs he had written and wanted them to record.
Prince first recorded this song with Apollonia 6, a group he assembled for his film Purple Rain. Apollonia Kotero was the female lead in the film and fronted the group along with Brenda Bennett and Susan Moonsie (yes, there were only three girls in Apollonia 6). The group released just one album (self-titled), which was slated to contain not only “Manic Monday,” but also “The Glamorous Life,” which Prince ended up giving to Sheila E. The highest charting song on the Apollonia 6 album was “Sex Shooter” (performed in Purple Rain), which made #85 US.
A pre-release cassette of the album contained the Apollonia 6 version of “Manic Monday.” Prince clearly made the right decision by trusting the song to the Bangles.
An original demo with Apollonia and Prince appeared in the 2001 bootleg, “The Work – Volume 1.” It was another 18 years before an official version was posthumously released with Prince as the primary vocalist. That recording appears on the 2019 demo compilation, Originals.
1984 was an astonishingly prolific year in Prince’s career. Just months before releasing his watershed soundtrack and film, Purple Rain, Prince was deep into preparations for his massive Purple Rain Tour while also writing and recording nearly a song a day for proteges like Sheila E., The Time, and The Family. One of those singles, “Manic Monday,” would become a breakout hit for the Bangles. Their version of the song skyrocketed to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985, just behind Prince’s number 1 hit “Kiss.”
“Manic Monday” este o melodie compusă de Prince în 1984. Inițial trebuia să fie un duet cu Apollonia 6. Dar, după ce a ascultat piesa “Hero Takes A Fall” a grupului The Bangles, care i-a plăcut, le-a oferit lor melodia prima dată. A fost un single de succes pentru The Bangles, și a fost prima dată inclusă pe albumul lor “Different Light”. Piesa este creditată sub pseudonimul Christopher.
Prince a înregistrat melodia la 4 -5 Februarie 1984, prima parte a piesei, la studioul Sunset Sound din Hollywood, CA. În 1985 The Bangles au înregistrat partea lor.
Versiunea originală a lui Prince a fost făcută public în 2019, pe albumul post-mortem Originals, unde este a treia piesă. Video, este o înregistrare a lui Prince and The Revolution, de la o repetiție la Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse din 1984.
Bangles version
Apollonia 6 version
Prince version (on Originals)
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