Difference between revisions of "Video: Rock And Roll Love Affair"

Rock And Roll Love Affair (stylized as 'Rock & Roll Love Affair' in the videos intro) is a Prince video released for broadcast and to promote the single. It is the first Prince video to have been broadcast officially on a YouTube TV Channel.

The video shows Prince singing, playing guitar and keyboards in Paisley Park’s Studio C, rehearsal room (a.k.a. the "NPG Music Club" formerly the "Love4Oneanother room"). He is backed by Ida Nielsen on bass, Andy Allo on guitar and Hannah Ford on drums. The video contains shots from a directors perspective, close-ups of Prince, Hannah Ford, Andy Allo and Ida Nielsen, both in color and black and white. In addition of shots of Prince and his trio band, a few shots show several horns players in the aisles of the room, paired with different models serving as personal assistants, holding sheet music while they play their part.

A glimpse of "Reine Keis Quintet", a painting by C’Babi Bayoc, used in 2001 for The Rainbow Children album artwork, can be seen in the background of a side shot of Ida Nielsen and Andy Allo. The rehearsal room carpet also features the NPG Music Club logo. It is unlikely that inclusion of these references of earlier Prince projects are intentional.

• Prince
• Andy Allo
• Ida Nielsen
• Hannah Ford
• BK Jackson
• Marcus Anderson
• Adrian Crutchfield
• Lynn Grissett
• Steve Reid
• Joey Rayfield

• Chris Robinson - director
• Sanaa Hamri - editing
• Kim Berry - hair & make-up
• Katrina Appie - hair & make-up
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• Rock And Roll Love Affair
• Rock And Roll Love Affair (single)
  

• Of note, the video features Prince playing a custom built Godin guitar, with his symbol as fret markers
• On 19 November 2012 Purple Music facebook account announced that the video would be premiered the same week as the release of Rock And Roll Love Affair single. The video was streamed on 22 November 2012 on Corriere Della Sera website before being removed. IM1 Web TV also streamed the video later the same day at 2:00 PM (CET), followed by Tape TV website. The next day, the video was made available in HD format on Purple Music YouTube TV Channel.
• Although Prince has released an album in 2010 (20Ten) between Lotusflow3r/MPLSound (2009) and Rock And Roll Love Affair (2012), there were no video created or used as a promotional tool for this record (the rumoured animated-video of Walk In Sand is a actually fan-made and unofficial). A commercial was created using Prince’s performance of Laydown on 13 April 2011 at Lopez Tonight intertwined with basketball players to promote both the NBA playoffs on TNT and the 21 Nite Stand, but it is not considered as a promotional music video for the song.

• Purple Music YouTube TV Channel