’s most commercially successful album, but if fans have to pick a favorite, for many it’s “Sign O’ the Times,” his sprawling, wildly diverse 1987 double album that combines R&B, pop, rock, ballads, gospels across its 80 minutes in a dazzling display of his creativity and imagination.
But for folks who are highly creative, the gate stays open, so the ideas just keep coming and coming and coming — and they have no choice but to get right to it, because craft is always on the heels of art. That helped me to understand why Prince didn’t get any sleep. We’d finish a 24-hour session, he’d leave the room, turn around, come back and ask for fresh [recording] tape. He once said, “I can’t sleep — these [ideas] just keep coming.
A lot of spiritually themed songs were recorded during the sessions — had Prince become more religious?: That happened later, when he became a Jehovah’s Witness. When I knew him, religion was always a theme, and in particular the paradox of the tension he felt between the two poles of love and lust: wanting love but needing lust. Often when he would do songs where he’d get really down and dirty lyrically, he’d follow them up with songs praising God.
, “Levi, you wanna be in my band?” “Yes sir, I want to be in your band.” “Rehearsal’s Monday, I’ll see you then.”
prince I was a Jehovah's Witness for 40 years. I grew up in it, then got baptised. I wasn't famous. But, I know exactly what kind of turmoil he meant. He's free now. Namaste prince
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