Purple Rain – Prince

The song was written for the Purple Rain film, but it served Prince very well in concert, where it was often his showstopper. He retained many of the visual elements from the movie performance in his shows, which isn’t much of a stretch – the concert scenes were filmed at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, where Prince often performed.

The song “Purple Rain” was the centerpiece of the film and a key plot point. In the movie, the female members in Prince’s band, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, write a song that Prince ignores, prompting a tirade from Wendy (“Every time we give you a song you say you’re going to use it but you never do. You’re being paranoid as usual…”). At the end of the film, Prince’s crew is in a heated rivalry with another band (The Time), who do a blistering set that Prince must follow. When Prince takes the stage, he introduces “Purple Rain” as being written by Wendy and Lisa, then tears down the house with it.

Wendy and Lisa were real members of Prince’s band until 1987 when they left to record as a duo. This song, however, was composed solely by Prince. It’s a love song, with Prince singing about his devotion to a girl, but it also serves as a catharsis, releasing the pent-up frustrations that had been building throughout the movie. The “Purple Rain” is a place to be free.

Prince played his last concert on April 14 in Atlanta, closing the show with “Purple Rain.” The next morning, his plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, when he lost consciousness. He was taken to a local hospital and given Narcan – his representatives said he was feeling the effects of the flu and also dehydrated.

Prince dies at age 57 after overdosing on fentanyl, a highly addictive opioid, on April 21, 2016.

Videoclip din filmul  “Purple Rain” din 1984, un film semi-autobiografic în care au jucat alături de Prince, Apollonia Kotero Morris Day, Olga Kataris, formațiile The Revolution și The Times.

Tema filmului este una simplă, supraviețuire prin dragoste, și viața unui tânăr muzician care este pe cale să se auto-distrugă. Apollonia Kotero, este o tânăra muziciană care-l ajută pe Prince să supraviețuiască că artist, prin dragostea lui față de ea.

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