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	Purple Rain (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was released by Warner Brothers Records and was Prince's sixth album.
		In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Purple Rain the 73rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 18.
		As was often the case, Prince wrote all of the songs on the album.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain_(album) (423 words)

	Purple Rain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are multiple meanings for Purple Rain, all related to Prince:
		The song "Purple Rain" from the same album
		The film Purple Rain in which he starred
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Purple_Rain (100 words)

	The Ziggy Stardust Companion: Purple Stardust by Christopher Barton
		Prince: Purple Rain is considered by many to be Prince’s breakthrough hit, although he enjoyed a few successes before this album, notably, the 1982 song and album 1999, the title tune being about a future gone wrong.
		Purple Rain: Prince poses on his motorcycle in the street, the sidewalk is wet, he’s in front of a door (as Apollonia is in the doorway, looking on).
		While Purple Rain was a concept based on autobiographical events, Ziggy Stardust has been described as a fictional character, which David Bowie began to transform into – the reverse construction of Prince’s character of The Kid.
	www.5years.com /purplestardust.htm (1900 words)

	PRINCE IN PRINT
		Sales of the "Purple Rain" album, which won an Academy Award, three Grammys and three American Music Awards, are said to be approaching 13 million (Warner Brothers is not releasing official sales figures).
		The album's popularity was greatly bolstered by the success of the "Purple Rain" film and by the release of several songs from the album as singles, including "When Doves Cry" and three other top 10 hits.
		In fact, Prince's new album might more accurately have been titled "Around Great 60's Rock in a Day." It is redolent of 60's rock, or at least of 60's rock myths, in many ways, from the cover art, which recalls the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" cartoon feature, to the lyrics, the musical stylings and the vocals.
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	Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Special Edition (1984)
		Knowing how successful the album was makes the constant attacks on the Kid’s music unintentionally amusing; people bitch about how uncommercial his material is, even though in the real world, Rain sold more than 13 million albums.
		Purple Rain appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		I flip-flopped on my grade for Rain and thought a “B+” might be a little high, but I felt that when I considered the film’s age, difficult lighting conditions and low budget, it merited the higher grade.
	dvdmg.com /purplerainanniversary.shtml (2577 words)

	Comments on 5894 \| Ask MetaFilter
		Purple rain: for the outro guitar solo, which suffices to establish Prince as a legend.
		Purple Rain is a close second for me. There's not a bad song on that album, and it's so iconic as to be nearly legendary.
		Purple Rain is coming out in a 2-disc special edition DVD in a few months, and Under a Cherry Moon and Graffiti Bridge will be released at the same time.
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	Purple Rain Movie Rewind «
		Purple Rain is truly an 80's classic and definitly one of the greatest movies ever which starred an actual performer.
		Apollonia was actually married at the time of Purple Rain, but was sworn to secrecy about it so that people would really think she and Prince were a couple.
		The two movies "Purple Rain" was competing against were the Willie Nelson musical drama "Songwriter" and the 3rd Muppet movie, "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
	www.fast-rewind.com /purplerain.htm (1828 words)

	DVD.net : Prince - Purple Rain: 20th Anniversary Special Edition - DVD Review
		Purple Rain is the story of the Kid (Prince), a Minneapolis musician who fronts the rock group the Revolution (keyboard players Lisa Coleman and Matt “Doctor Fink, bassist Mark “Brownmark” Brown, drummer Robert Zajonic and guitartist Wendy Melvoin) one the house bands at the First Avenue Club and Seventh Street Entry.
		Purple Rain fuses a superb soundtrack, an immensly talented (with an ego to match) musical star with a groundbreaking visual style to make a gloriously entertaining 'rock musical' that is unrivalled in it's success.
		Purple Rain has been digitally remastered and is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is 16:9 enhanced.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4981 (1687 words)

	purple rain: its true meaning?
		Obviously the rain is not literal, it is a metaphor for a place where the woman is happy and at peace, and Prince thought he could have helped her/could still help her achieve that place (let me guide you to the purple rain).
		If you wanna look at it with a religious eye, the rain could be associated with baptism and the cleansing of the soul, he wanted the woman's problems to be all washed away and be reborn fresh, happy and satisfied.
		Based on things he has said before and since about purple, the entire purple rain album, and the apocalypse, the song means that before anything else he wants this persons soul to be saved.
	www.prince.org /msg/7/115019 (2523 words)

	Vitamin Records
		When Prince released his first album some 25 years ago it was a bold combination of talent, ego and the unknown.
		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.
		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.
	www.vitaminrecords.com /web/page.asp?pgs=product&catid=20&id=733 (235 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Purple Rain (Sdtk) - Prince & The Revolution at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While the movie "Purple Rain" was enjoyable in it's own laughable way and went on to become a major box office smash, the soundtrack album was a whole 'nother animal.
		Prince took his pop smarts, mixed them with his funk appeal and rock-guitar heroics, set it on spin cycle, and came away with an enjoyably listenable album that was of it's time as much as it was ahead of it's time.
		But "Purple Rain" was the one album where Prince managed to balance his slightly off-kilter perversion and musical adventurousness against his desire for pop success and come up aces.
	www.epinions.com /content_139309125252 (1092 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Purple Rain
		f it wasn't for Purple Rain, no one east of Madison would have ever heard of Lake Minnetonka and First Avenue wouldn't have turned into a Minneapolis tourist trap (well, at least for the duration of the mid '80s).
		Purple Rain's gazillion-selling soundtrack album has more or less eclipsed the film in pop culture history books.
		The film is obvious, and conflict is merely prelude to (Prince and) the Resolution, but Magnoli's professional, downright neorealistic approach to filming the concert clips almost disguises how audacious a structural conceit is the film's climax: nearly a half-hour of musical numbers that render the solipsism of Prince's vanity project entirely justifiable.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1207 (315 words)

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		In fact, it was his live performances in the "Purple Rain" movie that inspired Middle America to go see the real thing, making Prince a superstar in the process.
		One of the few rock 'n' roll-based dramatic movies actually worth the film it was shot on, "Purple Rain" rocketed Prince into the highest reaches of rock royalty with its combination of mesmerizing live performances and a "Rocky"-style story line of a boy overcoming a tough background and achieving greatness.
		The best extra, though, is the collection of "Purple Rain"-era videos, including a killer rare live performance of "I Would Die 4 U/BABY I'M A STAR." The only bummer of the set: the absence of the enigmatic Prince's participation, considering he wrote the songs and inspired the script.
	www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2407360 (1234 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Purple Rain: Original Soundtrack [Soundtrack]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While Prince cavorted in purple kitchen foil and rode his Harley in high heels, the real star of the film, the music, was doing allthe talking.
		"Purple Rain" closes the album in gobsmacking fashion, Prince's guitar playing skills on this track are fabulous and it is epic stadium rock at its finest.
		In short, this album is as close to a perfect cohesive rounded album that is tight enough it doesn't outstay its welcome, and leaves you wanting to hear the whole thing again as soon as it comes to an end.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002L68 (1401 words)

	BMN Review: Purple Rain (1984)
		Unlike the white-nose-striped one, Prince actually had a halfway decent album and some musical talent to back up his preposterous claim that "I ought to be in pictures".
		Before the Purple Pain decided to change his name to a symbol not recognised on any keyboard, causing entertainment editors the world over to have collective strokes, he made a white hot album.
		Billed as a "complicated tale of a man with a talent for music repeating his father's self destructive behavior'', "Purple Rain'' is nothing more than a "I've got a hot album so let's cash in quick'' exploitation flick.
	www.hit-n-run.com /cgi/read_review.cgi?review=37367_jenlec (491 words)

	Prince (entertainer) - MSN Encarta
		In 1978 Warner Records issued Prince’s first album, For You, on which he performed all of the instrumental parts.
		Prince’s 1984 soundtrack album Purple Rain was one of the biggest hits of the decade and went on to earn three Grammy Awards in 1985.
		In addition to providing music for many films, Prince starred in the successful movie Purple Rain (1984) and directed and starred in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), the concert film Sign O' the Times (1987), and Graffiti Bridge (1990).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568382/Prince_(entertainer).html (399 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Prince
		And for an album produced right slap bang in the middle of the 80s, the various 80s production touches of the day make surprisingly little impact, in a good way, when the album is listened to all these years later.
		This album plays like a compilation of great songs, you can hear almost all of his influences in a form that is purely enjoyable and the sheer variety of it all is just impressive.
		While the album as a whole is certainly a weak one for Prince, I think "Scandalous" is a beautiful song with a sincere vocal effort, and relatively unhampered by the sentimentality on "Orion".
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /prince.html (7338 words)

	Purple Rain
		This is a fine example of that period that basically ran from the middle of 1999 to the middle of 2000, when there was evidence of a slow return to some quality in the releases.
		And, one of the reasons that this was pulled out for review is the fact that I had just had the chance to replace the original crappy snapper case with a nice new transparent Amaray case and a free replacement slick from Warners.
		I would not like to hazard a guess as to how many times I have listened to the album, but it was a rare gem and one of the truly great albums of the 1980s - the last decade to show any real musical worth in the last century.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/PurpleRain.html (1974 words)

	Amazon.com: Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain": Music: Prince & the Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Her vocals are really prominent when the two sing "I don't care if we spend the night at your mansion" and the other four verses of the bridge, as well when they repeat the title line toward the end of the song.
		Every song on this album is so entwined together in Prince's unifying theme and sound that it's sometimes jarring to hear any of these songs on anywhere else but this album.
		If you divorce this album from the Purple Rain film (the first of Prince's trilogy of cinematic vanity projects), what you have here is an album showcasing the work of a brilliant musician really hitting his stride.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002L68?v=glance (2080 words)

	YouTube - Purple Rain - Prince
		T "Purple Rain" is a power ballad by Prince and the The Revolution.
		Interesting, "Purple Rain" contained an extra verse about money that wisely was edited out, as it dilutes the emotional impact of the song.
		It is a theory that "Purple Rain" is a metaphor for heaven, inspired by the testimonies of a woman who died on the operating table that the afterlife is full of falling purple rain.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=9SF_jY-vMuY (598 words)

	Prince
		The album is filled out with ten previously released tracks, and almost all of them rank among his finest work ("Adore," "Girls & Boys," "Pink Cashmere") but they're redundant for the fans, who are the only people who'll buy this record anyway.
		The only good points are the softly funky "Barcelona," which belonged on a Madhouse album, and some arranging details on "Promise/Broken" and the finale "Eternal Embrace." Even his die-hard fans will probably find this slow going, and everyone else should stay miles away.
		album: he sings lead on every song, and I'd be surprised if anyone else in the band had significant input into the songwriting.
	www.warr.org /prince.html (4520 words)

	Purple Rain vs. The Bends
		I guess the thing is though that Purple Rain has a handful of songs that are considered among the most classic songs in the history of pop music, where as only one song from The Bends ever got played on the radio.
		Unfortunately, after several album worth of material were recorded, the album, set for release on Paisley Park Records, was hopelessly entangled in the legal battle between O(+> and Warner Bros. And it was never released.
		His first known album which he produced and played all the instruments, and sang all the vocals, lead and background, set the stage for his whole career.
	www.byroncrawford.com /2005/08/purple_rain_vs_.html (11466 words)

	Purple Rain - Prince - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Purple Rain - Prince : Vanity And Insanity...
		Purple Rain - Prince : The colour Purple
		Its undoubtedley one of my most favourite albums of all time, containing some of Prince's most classic hits that propelled him into stardom at a phenomenal rate.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/purple-rain-prince (291 words)

	Prince: Rave Un2 the Year 2000 (2000)
		Through albums like 1986’s “Parade”, 1987’s “Sign ‘O’ the Times”, and 1988’s “Lovesexy”, Prince maintained his place as one of rock’s biggest stars, but he’d never again approach the heights of 1984.
		This album fit in well with Prince’s inconsistent work of a few years prior, but after the depths of “Come”, the smattering of killer songs made it seem like a masterwork.
		Had he pared it down to a single album, it could have been very strong, but as a whole, the huge package was less than scintillating.
	www.dvdmg.com /princerave.shtml (4063 words)

	Purple Rain - Prince - Review - The colour Purple
		It has a very eighties feel to it and is probably the weakest track on the album but then again there are some really outstanding tracks that this track competes with.
		9.) Purple Rain - What a way to end the album,a fantastic emotive guitar intro that is soon joined by a drum beat and some amazing lyrics that prives to any doubters that Prince can do some great emotive ballads.
		I Suppose the only real downside to the album is that there are only 9 tracks, ideally I like around 14 tracks but the quality of the tracks pays off.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/purple-rain-prince/1000556 (876 words)

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