Songs this sexually explicit weren’t as common in 1980 as they are today, and "Dirty Mind” positioned Prince as one of funk’s most controversial figures. On “Head,” he sets the scene with “I remember ...

Over the course of a long and prolific career, Prince wrote songs on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who knows anything about Prince, though, knows that he was particularly concerned with what was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When most people think of Prince, their minds immediately go to the global hits—”Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry,” “1999,” and “Kiss.” And fair enough—those songs helped shape pop ...

Prince was a fountain of musical creativity — as daring and diverse as he was prolific. Like many geniuses, he rarely slept, and frequently found himself in the studio producing song after song after ...

Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince, was one of the most prolific songwriters in the music business. His uncanny sense of melody, distinctive voice and production techniques consistently ...

Prince was no stranger to particularly filthy, raunchy songs. In fact, his sex appeal was a big part of what made him such a huge pop icon. Let’s take a look at just four of Prince’s raunchiest songs ...

You don’t have to fork over money for the stage version of “Purple Rain” this week to celebrate Prince. The late legend’s tunes will provide the soundtrack ...

Prince wrote “When Doves Cry” and released it on May 16, 1984, as the lead single from Purple Rain. Just days after the album, which served as a soundtrack to the film of the same name, hit record ...

Wendy Melvoin, guitarist for Prince's genre-bending band The Revolution, remembers one of their most iconic songs started with an idea — and a challenge — from the boss himself. Prince broached the ...

When planning out our direction for this series of ‘Magic Moments’ features, we set a rule that guitar solos specifically - even the truly majestic ones - shouldn’t be highlighted. Our thinking went ...

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