Remember the music that defined the 80s is to hear the great successes of Prince, the eccentric and multifaceted American musician, who died Thursday at age 57.
Considered one of the most innovative pop genre in recent times artists, Prince was also multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and even actor.
His sixth album, Purple Rain , released in 1984, was considered by US publications Rolling Stone and time as one of the best albums of all time.
gave interviews in recent times, the artist expressed his displeasure towards commercialization of music in the digital era. And so he fought beside his lawyers until withdrew their discography full of streaming services like SoundCloud and Spotify.
In Youtube, in fact, it is only possible to find a few original versions of their songs.
BBC World is a selection of six of the themes that made Prince a superstar.
this song is a combination of rock, pop, gospel and symphonic music, and has become one of the key issues in the musical career of Prince.
He formed part of the album of the same name published in 1984, the artist recorded with a band which he christened the Revolution.
Purple Rain , which was awarded the Oscar for best song in 1985 to join the soundtrack of a film of the same name, was recorded during a charity concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the hometown of the singer.
2. “Let’s go crazy”
This issue was also part of the classic album Purple Rain and positioned at the top of the Billboard charts in the US after being released in July 1984.
The song begins with a single organ which is then transformed into a combination of electric guitars, electronic drums and synthesizers.
Experts musical opinion that the impact of this record had to do with Prince merged genres and rhythms “whites” with what had come “to black” as the R &. B
3. “Little Red Corvette”
This song, which tells the story of an affair of one night, was the first with which Prince reached the top 10 of the most common refrains in US .
Little Red Corvette appears on the album “1999″, which launched the musician in 1982 and was described by music critics as a disc of “funk, pop and synthetic soul “.
4. “When Doves Cry”
This was the song that finally Prince catapulted to number one on the charts in the US, since in that lasted for weeks.
also part of the iconic album “Purple Rain” and the journal spin considered “a masterpiece” largely because it was the same Prince who, besides singing, he recorded all the instrumentation.
5. “Raspberry Beret”
This was one of the songs “Around the World in a Day” (1985) which marked the transition from Prince to the pop genre.
in it, she included sounds unusual in their previous work, as harmonicas and stringed instruments.
despite the musical transformation, the letters continued to be bold and sensual, as is common in the work of Prince.
In this case, has the first sexual experience of a teenager.
6. “Kiss”
Kiss was one of the singles “Parade” album, released in 1986.
He started out as an acoustic demo roughly one minute that Prince then gave the funk group Mazarati to create instrumentation.
the musician was so happy with the result we decided to include it on your disk. The British magazine New Musical Express named as the fourth best song among the 150 best singles of all time.
Fun Fact
While the success of 1990 “Nothing compares 2 U” is normally associated with Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, actually it was composed by Prince as one of its alternative music projects.
Before becoming a success, one of the groups formed by Prince called “the Family”, released the song in 1985 as part of his first album.
he is not promoted and received little recognition.
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