More than on any other song in Prince’s career, “Let’s Go Crazy” blended the styles of soul, R&B, dance and rock. The gospel-like opening of “ Let’s Go Crazy” tells us that we are entering into a sacred place, while the heavy Hendrix guitars let us know that its okay to party in this church. ![]() The story behind the film was simple enough, just tell Prince’s own story, his childhood with an abusive father and his rise to fame through the Minneapolis club First Avenue, throw in a romantic triangle and as many Prince penned tunes as you could fit in two hours and the rest was history. So too did Prince on his fifth album, essentially a distilled soundtrack to the breakthrough musical film, Purple Rain, in the character of `the Kid’ and his backup band, given title credit for the first time, the Revolution.Īfter two mildly successful initial albums, then the sexual cavalcade of Dirty Mind and the epic grandiosity of 1999, Prince had a bee in his bonnet about making a movie, about becoming a star of multiple medias. Besides all of the comparisons that could be made due to the various slurs and criticisms heaped on each of them, on Bowie’s album, The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, he created an alter ego, someone who could express everything he was thinking through a mask of sorts. Prince also shared a similar career ideology and path as my other favorite solo artist, David Bowie. Prince battled off derisions about his height, sexuality, religion, appearance, race and just about everything in between, still vaulting himself into super stardom, not waiting for people to recognize his talents, but telling them, with Purple Rain in particular, that he was a star. At a time when I felt really insecure about myself, my popularity, and how I fit in with my peers, I had Prince to let me know that not only did adults go through the same thing, but that you could rise above it. Prince is a polarizing artist, you either buy into his style, his persona and his sex appeal, or you don’t. Even my wife, the person closest to me in the entire world, quite often just doesn’t get it. Purple Rain means so much to me, that there’s very few people in the world who would understand my relationship with the album and the artist who created it. In fact, I could probably write one of those 33 1/3 books on the album. Since leaving Prince's employ in 1991, Fink has owned and operated the Minneapolis-based Star Vu recording studio, where he produces other artists and creates music for video games and movie soundtracks.I am going to try to restrain myself, but when it comes to Prince, and most specifically Purple Rain, I could go on for ages. Rockets, he began playing with Prince in late 1978. Attracting attention with the pop/rock band Zachariah and R&B, funk, and disco group B.T. Although he managed to fit high school into his busy schedule, Fink launched a full-time music career following his graduation. ![]() ![]() Within three years, he was touring the northern Midwest with another cover band, Spiff Cool & the Keeno Jets. Studying classical and jazz piano from the age of ten, Fink performed with a Top 40 cover band, Odella, before his 13th birthday. His imaginative playing and warm vocal harmonies enlivened such albums as Dirty Mind, Controversy, Around the World in a Day, Parade, and Sign o' the Times, and he appeared in the film and soundtrack album Purple Rain. Fink (born Matthew Fink) helped to create some of the funkiest dance music of the 1980s. The keyboardist/vocalist for Prince's band the Revolution and later the New Power Generation, Dr.
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