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Purple Rain, 1984

Purple Rain (Verse 2)

Contact sheet from Prince's August 3, 1983 performance at First Avenue; © David Brewster/Minneapolis Star Tribune, stolen from Housequake on Twitter.

Note: This is the second of three projected posts on “Purple Rain”: a song of such monumental importance to Prince’s creative arc that I’ve opted to split my analysis into parts. You can–and should–read the first part here.

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