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| |song name = Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis) | | |song name = Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis) |
− | |single image = [[File:Gold single.jpg|100px|link=Single: Gold]] <br><small> single art for [[Single: Gold|Gold]] </small> | + | |album image = [[File:Gold single.jpg|100px|link=Single: Gold]] <br><small> single art for [[Single: Gold|Gold]] </small> |
| + | |single image = [[File: Rocknrollisalive single.jpg|100px|border|link=Single: Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)]] <br> <small> single art for <br>[[Single: Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)|Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)]]</small> |
| |performer = [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] | | |performer = [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] |
| |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 30|30 November 1995]] - [[Single: Gold|Gold]] single | | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 30|30 November 1995]] - [[Single: Gold|Gold]] single |
Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis) was released as the b-side of the single Gold, the second commercial single to be released from The Gold Experience, released worldwide. In 1996, the song was also included in the TV movie Love 4 One Another.
Basic tracking took place on 12 September 1995 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (on the same day Hate U was released as a single), incorporating an audience chant of "Rock 'n' roll is alive! And it lives in Minneapolis" from the 9 September 1995 show at Paisley Park Studios, and the song premiered on KDWB-FM radio in Minneapolis the following day. A separate instrumental version, containing the audience chants and the DJ's voiceover sampled from the initial broadcast, premiered on KDWB-FM two days later.
The song was recorded in direct response to Lenny Kravitz's song Rock And Roll Is Dead (from the 1995 album Circus, also released as a single), which had just been released, and received some press coverage as a result. A lyric sheet given to attendees at a listening party for The Gold Experience (where this song was also played), ended with the credit "Thanx Lenny, call me in Minneapolis".
The song was released as the A-side of a posthumous 7" vinyl distributed to all attendees at the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA basketball game in Minneapolis' Target Center against the Miami Heat on 5 April, 2019 (with Calhoun Square as the B-side). The single was made available digitally on the same day.
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Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)
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Early version, missing some crowd chants
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Rock 'N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)
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Remix missing the song's verses, replaced by keyboards and samples of DJ Tony Fly speaking over the track (sampled from the song's premiere on KDWB-FM)
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