Difference between revisions of "Utopia"

• 8 May 1999 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA
  
• 29 April 2000 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA

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• 1999, 2000

Utopia is the ninth track (seventh song) on Graham Central Station’s eighth studio album GCS 2000. The song was written and produced by Larry Graham and Prince (as ), who also appears as a musician.

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place between November 1997, and January 1998, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The song contains a looped and distorted sample of the scream from the opening of Gett Off, and also contains a synth motif later used in The War.

• Larry Graham - vocals and bass guitar
• Prince (as ) - all other instruments, except where noted (uncredited)
• Rhonda Smith – background vocals
• Kat Dyson – background vocals
• Rosie Gaines - looped scream (sampled from Gett Off)

• GCS 2000 album

• On 25 October 1997 (a.m.), shortly before recording the song, and Larry Graham played an aftershow concert at a venue called Utopia, in Las Vegas, NV, USA. It is unknown if this prompted the song.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)