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A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]]. | A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]]. | ||
− | [[Prince and the Revolution]] recorded the song live on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 3|3 August 1983]] at [[First Avenue]] in Minneapolis, Minnesota (at the same concert where [[I Would Die 4 U]] and [[Baby I'm A Star]], among others were also recorded) | + | Although it is unclear when a first incarnation of the song was ready, it was first rehearsed and worked on with the band in the summer of 1983 at the [[The Warehouse]] in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. |
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+ | [[Prince and the Revolution]] then recorded the song live on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 3|3 August 1983]] at [[First Avenue]] in Minneapolis, Minnesota (at the same concert where [[I Would Die 4 U]] and [[Baby I'm A Star]], among others were also recorded). | ||
This live version was worked on further between mid-August and into September 1983, at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California, where the track was edited to omit a verse and a solo, and a new string section was overdubbed over the finale of the track. | This live version was worked on further between mid-August and into September 1983, at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California, where the track was edited to omit a verse and a solo, and a new string section was overdubbed over the finale of the track. | ||
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It was included as the sixth track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_7|7 November 1983]] configuration of [[Album: Purple Rain|Purple Rain]], before becoming the eighth and final track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_23|23 March 1984]] configuration. It became the ninth and final track on the final [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 14|14 April 1984]] configuration after some tracklist changes to the album. | It was included as the sixth track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_7|7 November 1983]] configuration of [[Album: Purple Rain|Purple Rain]], before becoming the eighth and final track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_23|23 March 1984]] configuration. It became the ninth and final track on the final [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 14|14 April 1984]] configuration after some tracklist changes to the album. | ||
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+ | |date = Summer 1983 | ||
+ | |studio = [[The Warehouse]],<br>St. Louis Park, MN, USA | ||
+ | |additional info = writing/rehearsal recording | ||
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|date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 3|3 August 1983]] | |date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 3|3 August 1983]] |
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