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Speaker 1: Clearsy releases The story behind the album Here We Go.

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Speaker 2: Purple Rain is the sixth studio album by singer, songwriter, producer,

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Speaker 2: on multi instrumentalist Prince. It was released on June twenty five,

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, as the soundtrack album to the nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four film of the same name. Purple Rain was

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Speaker 2: musically denser than Prince's previous albums, emphasizing full band performances

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Speaker 2: because it is Prince and the Revolution it's from, and

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Speaker 2: multiple layers of guitars and keyboards and electronic synthesier effects,

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Speaker 2: synthesizer effects and drum machines. It was all about the sound.

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Speaker 2: And I guess one person who knew more than anyone

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Speaker 2: about the sound was Prince's sound engineer, Susan Rogers.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because it was no surprise that he was

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Speaker 1: and as a workaholic p Lice and Prince wanted what

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Speaker 1: he wanted to. I wanted to be ready to go

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Speaker 1: with inspirations stuck and the studio set up, and he

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Speaker 1: was very demanding like that. And as you mentioned, Susan

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Speaker 1: Rodgers knew all about it. He's work ethic and he's

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Speaker 1: set up right here.

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Speaker 3: Well, his favorite way to work was to have everything

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Speaker 3: set up and routed so that he could work silently,

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Speaker 3: because he didn't like small talk. Interrupted that flow, that river,

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Speaker 3: that Niagara falls of ideas it was coming through his brain.

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Speaker 3: It interrupted that flow if he had to have conversations.

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Speaker 3: So if he could start a session with everything set

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Speaker 3: up and routed, just headed to tape, Happy, happy, Happy.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you'd get a phone call saying here's what he

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Speaker 3: wants set up. Sometimes you'd come to the studio and

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Speaker 3: there'd be a note waiting on the console saying here's

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Speaker 3: what he wants set up. If the sunset, he would

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Speaker 3: tell the front desk, tell the engineers, I want this

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Speaker 3: set up, But you come in and try to get

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Speaker 3: as much routed for him. Get his bass tuned, get

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Speaker 3: his guitars tuned before handing it to him, So never

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Speaker 3: hand him an untuned instrument.

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Speaker 1: You'll imagine doing that.

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Speaker 2: He had one job, Yes, could you imagine?

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Speaker 1: You know he had lots of band mates over the years.

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Speaker 1: Didn't he know so many people who went on to

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Speaker 1: other things in their careers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The interesting thing about Purple Rain is its generally regarded

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Speaker 2: as the most pop oriented of Prince's career. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: it has a number of elements that point towards the

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Speaker 2: more experimental records that he would go on to release

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Speaker 2: after Purple Rain. So it was such a pivotal moment.

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Speaker 2: His previous albums were primarily solo recordings Prince by Prince,

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Speaker 2: but Purple Rain contained the credits, produced, arranged, composed and

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Speaker 2: performed by Prince and the Revolution, so he gave over

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Speaker 2: some of the responsibility.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and more of a band, even though he was

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Speaker 1: always have the final say, let's be honest, it was

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Speaker 1: absolutely yeah, and he had lots of people around him.

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Speaker 1: You could call him a few muses over the years,

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Speaker 1: and the likes and Shela. He was in the band

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Speaker 1: of one stage, but he had Lisa and Wendy, and

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Speaker 1: Wendy Melvin here is talking about the reveues from the Revolution,

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Speaker 1: talking about performing and the advice that Prince gave her

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Speaker 1: that night.

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Speaker 5: At First Avenue was a foreshadowing for sure, because there

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Speaker 5: were at least three tracks that ended up being the

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Speaker 5: you know, the recorded versions for the album.

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Speaker 3: And you I mean it was my first show.

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Speaker 5: It was my first show with the band. Best advice

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Speaker 5: I've ever gotten that I share with other musicians when

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Speaker 5: they're starting, He said to me, when I get nervous,

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Speaker 5: and you hear the beat, and you hear the rhythm,

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Speaker 5: and you hear how fast we're going, cut your body

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Speaker 5: in halftime. So if you're feeling one two three four

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Speaker 5: one two three four, if you're nervous, you're going to

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Speaker 5: be pushing the beat, right, he said, go halftime one.

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Speaker 5: And it's like it's a meditation. You slow, you're breathing down,

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Speaker 5: and you don't rush, and you stay behind the beat.

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Speaker 5: And that's where funk. And that was the best advice

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Speaker 5: she ever gave me.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, amazing advice from Prince Purple. Rain was well

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Speaker 2: received by contemporary critics. Kurt Loder, who was writing for

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Speaker 2: Rolling Stone in nineteen eighty four, compared Prince to Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Hendrix and praised him for merging black and white styles.

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Speaker 2: He said, the spirit of Jimmy Hendrix must surely smile

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Speaker 2: down on Prince Rogers Nelson. Like Hendrix, Prince seems to

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Speaker 2: have tapped into some extraterrestrial music dimension where black and

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Speaker 2: white styles are merely different aspects of the same funky thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a light about incredible guitarist. But we

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Speaker 1: saw how versatile when we finally got him in Perth

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Speaker 1: and that gig, those gigs at the Arena, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was just a piano and microphone tour and he

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Speaker 1: showed his versatility. But he was also, as Susan Rogers

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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, he was pretty shy and he didn't really

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Speaker 1: want to do small talk. No, you could hear it

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Speaker 1: when he accepted the Oscar.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. This is Lisa and this is Wendy.

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Speaker 4: This is a very unbelievable. I can never imagine this

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Speaker 4: in my wildest dreams. And I would like to thank

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Speaker 4: the Academy, mister Albert Magnoli, my manager, Stephen, Bob, Joe Bobby,

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Speaker 4: American Matt who corin't be with us today, and Moss

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Speaker 4: of our God. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Burble Rame was originally written as a country song and

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Speaker 2: intended to be a collaboration with Stevie Nicks.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, who knew that? How about that?

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Speaker 2: But of course the lead single was when Doves Cry

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Speaker 2: of what a Ripper Princess first Billboard Hot one hundred

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Speaker 2: number one single, where it stayed for five weeks, and

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Speaker 2: it was also a worldwide hit.