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When Prince released his first album some 25 years ago it was a bold combination of talent, ego and the unknown. The Minnesotan was the youngest artist in Warner Bros history to be given complete creative control of his debut. At the time it seemed risky, but the gamble paid off in spades. In less than five years, Prince rose from fringe r&b artist to one of the most successful rock acts of all time.
"1999" and "Little Red Corvette," major hits in their own right only served as the appetizer in introducing Prince to the mainstream. One year after the success of 1999, the nuclear combination of the Purple Rain album and film catapulted the diminutive rocker into the stratosphere. In the summer of 1984, Prince's Purple Rain spent 24 weeks on top of the albums chart and the movie opened at #1, becoming one of the biggest films of the year.
The Symphonic Tribute to Prince's Purple Rain lovingly recreates the entire Purple Rain album, as you've never heard before. Imagine a big city orchestra treating Prince with the same pomp and circumstance of Mozart or Beethoven and you've got a good idea what's in-store on this all-new collection. Including instrumental arrangements of the entire Purple Rain album, B-sides from the era and liner notes from Per Nilsen of Uptown Magazine, this is a must have for even the most casual Prince fan.
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