Prince's pop life, song by song, in chronological order.
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17 Days
With “Doves” now on deck for his next single, Prince was in the market for a suitably killer B-side–a role “17 Days” would fill with aplomb.
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Drive Me Wild
At the core of Susan Moonsie’s dirty-schoolgirl persona was “Drive Me Wild,” one of the handful of songs originally recorded for the proto-Vanity 6 Hookers project in 1981.
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Make-Up
“Make-Up” matches its arrangement’s ice-cold glamour with a portrait of singer Susan Moonsie as a fembot at her toilette.
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Nasty Girl
The role that made Denise Matthews a star–even if, as she later admitted, it was one she played reluctantly.