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The gee-up that Prince would give his band to make them feel like world-beaters
By Niall Doherty published
Brown Mark and Bobby Z. cast their minds back to what it was like playing a show on the Purple Rain tour

Prince's sister reveals their final conversation
By Liz Scarlett published
Tyka Nelson opens up about the last conversation she shared with her brother Prince

Watch David Gilmour wring every ounce of emotion from the guitar solo on Prince's Purple Rain – with Tom Jones
By Fraser Lewry published
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour gives a TV audience a solo of epic Floydian scale

“Prince would have the Presidential Suites, but he wouldn’t sleep in them…”: Prince and The Revolution drummer Bobby Z on what it was like being in a band with the Purple One
By Niall Doherty published
The drummer was behind the kit when Prince went supernova

“We can’t think of a more fitting tribute": Prince’s Purple Rain film is to be resurrected as a stage musical
By Paul Brannigan published
The story of Minneapolis rocker 'The Kid' is coming to the stage 40 years after the Purple Rain film and album made Prince a global superstar

“He released the set without even bothering with a single to precede it, preferring fans to hear it as a whole entity – an archetypically progtastic move”: Prince’s Around The World In A Day
By Joseph Stannard published
The success of Purple Rain meant he could basically do anything he wanted with its 1985 follow-up, which he did with minimal fanfare

11 iconic guitars and the legendary guitarists who played them
By Jenna Scaramanga published
From Jimmy Page’s double-necked Gibson to Brian May‘s Red Special, these are the guitars that became legends in their own right

“Prince made me stand in front of a mirror for eight hours”: This is what it was like being in Prince’s band at the height of the Purple One’s '80s superstardom
By Niall Doherty published
Two of Prince's key bandmembers recall the lengths their boss went to in order to perfect their live show

"He’s a prince who thinks he’s a king already": The day a young Prince supported The Rolling Stones, and was abused and brought to tears by thousands of food-throwing racists
By Liz Scarlett published
The Rolling Stones appeared to blame Prince for their audience's deplorable reaction to his performance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on their 1981 Tattoo You tour
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