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I Wanna Be Your Lover

Music Video details First aired: TV: tbc YouTube: 14 July 2017 Producer(s): ? Director: ? Related home video/DVD: The Hits Video Collection First (Commercially) Released: 14 September 1993 Awards Date Institution, Country Award This music video has not received any awards in the USA

I Wanna Be Your Lover is the first Prince video to have been broadcast as no videos were made for either of the two previous singles Soft And Wet and Just As Long As We're Together. The video show Prince singing, playing various instruments: keyboards, drums, guitar and bass. He is also seen dancing and playing with a red scarf attached to his mic. The video looks to have been interpreted as a attempt to market Prince as a prodigy multi-instrumentalist (a potential new Stevie Wonder). Another video was shot at a later date after with Prince's band but it was never aired and remains unreleased. The videos are two separate run-throughs of the song and neither contains any shots also present in the other. Shooting Information Shooting Sessions Date Location Additional info August 1979 Leeds Rehearsal Facility, North Hollywood, CA, USA (assumed) solo version Cast Prince Crew More information needed Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info I Wanna Be Your Lover 2:55 The Story So Far... (1986) The Hits Video Collection (1993) Prince streaming video platforms (2017) Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2017) solo version

Additional Information See Also Quotation & triva I Wanna Be Your Lover I Wanna Be Your Lover (single) I Wanna Be Your Lover (Band version) Of note, the video features Prince playing an Orr bass, (named after its luthier Charley Orr), an instrument Prince used to record almost all the basslines in For You album. The bass has seldom been seen (if never) or cited in credits since 1978. Prince also uses a Gibson L6-S Deluxe guitar (customed with red blinking lights), an instrument he will stop using after having heavily customizing it, until he definitively opts for the Hohner Telecaster guitar. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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