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from the album 1999 Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 27 October 1982 - 1999 album Album(s): 1999 One Nite Alone... Live! 1999 Deluxe Edition Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 8 April 1983: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI, USA 20 February 2016 (show 2): Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia Performed regularly on tour: Purple Rain Tour One Nite Alone... Tour Performed occasionally in shows: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2010 (in medley with Pearls B4 The Swine and Love... Thy Will Be Done) , 2016 (solo piano)

Free is the eighth track on Prince’s fifth album 1999, and, in late 1982, an edited version was included as the second track on a US promo 12" release of 1999, the album’s first single. In 2002, a live version was included as the thirteenth track on the second disc of Prince’s first live album One Nite Alone... Live! (along with recordings of One Nite Alone..., Starfish & Coffee and Sometimes It Snows In April from the same show). Basic tracking for Free took place on 25 April 1982 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, (five days after D.M.S.R., the day before How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore). Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info 25 April 1982 Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA Basic tracking Recording Personnel Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Lisa Coleman - vocals Jill Jones - vocals (as "J.J.") Vanity - vocals Wendy Melvoin - background vocals (as "Wendy") Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Free 5:08 1999 I Would Die 4 U single Studio Free 5:08 1999 (Super) Deluxe Edition Studio Remastered in 2019 Free (Edit) 4:35 1999 promo 1999 Deluxe Edition Edit Free 1:06 One Nite Alone... Live! Live 29 April 2002, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA

Additional Information See also Trivia 1999 album 1999 Deluxe Edition Prince contributed to another song also titled Free in 1998. This is an entirely different track, however, and receives a separate listing here. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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