Difference between revisions of "Strange Relationship"

One Nite Alone... Live!

• 24 August 1986: New Morning, Paris, France
  
• 28 February 2016 (show 2): Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA, USA

• Lovesexy Tour
• One Nite Alone... Tour

• 1986, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016 (solo piano)

Strange Relationship is the third track on the second disc of Prince's ninth album Sign O' The Times.

In 2001, a 1987 live version was included as part of NPG Ahdio Show # 4, and the same version was offered as an individual download in 2005.

In 2002, a live version was also included as the sixth track on the second disc of One Nite Alone... Live!, Prince's first live album (along with Muse 2 The Pharaoh, Mellow and The Other Side Of The Pillow from the same show).

A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album Piano & A Microphone 1983, preceded by Mary Don't You Weep, which also includes some lyrics from Strange Relationship also.

Initial tracking is believed to have taken place on 14 March 1983 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman reworked the track heavily in Summer 1985, adding sitar and other overdubs, most likely at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, CA. The sitar sound is not a real sitar, but comes from the Fairlight CMI, a unit Prince did not have at the time, but which was available at Sunset Sound.

This version was included as the seventh track on a late April 1986 configuration of Dream Factory, and as the album expanded, it was included as the sixth track on the first disc on the 3 June 1986 and 18 July 1986 configurations.

When the Revolution disbanded, Prince remixed the song at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, to minimize Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman's involvement. Eric Leeds recorded a saxophone overdub, but Prince removed it from the final mix, which was included as the third track on the 5 November 1986 configuration of the Camille album (to be credited to Camille).

A few weeks later, it was included as the sixth track on the second disc of the triple-album Crystal Ball on the 30 November 1986 configuration, which was eventually pared down and became Sign O' The Times.

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted (credited as Camille for vocals)
• Wendy Melvoin - tamborine, congas
• Lisa Coleman - sitar, wooden flute

• Sign O' The Times album

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
• Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984, Duane Tudahl (2017)