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from the album Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition Song details Performer: Prince and the Revolution First Released: 12 May 2017 - Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition preview download Album(s): Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 7 June 1984: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA (only known performance) Performed regularly on tour: none Performed occasionally in shows: none

Our Destiny is a track initially recorded during Prince and the Revolution’s concert on 7 June 1984 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the same show where the basic tracks for Roadhouse Garden and All Day, All Night were also recorded, although a version recorded by Prince alone is thought to have existed before. When working on this further, it is unclear if, but plausible that they used the basic tracks recorded at First Avenue on 7 June, but ended up overdubbing almost every part. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman worked on the track further for three days, from 27-29 September 1984 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California. Sessions with horn players and strings were organized and both Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones added a lead vocal to the track, replacing Prince’s vocals. Prince was not present for these sessions. Part of the strings that were recorded were later re-used for the opening of The Ladder. Our Destiny is not known to have been considered for inclusion on Prince’s next album, Around The World In A Day. According to Jill Jones, the song was intended for an aborted musical titled Roadhouse Garden. It is likely that it was planned for inclusion on the Prince and the Revolution album Roadhouse Garden album worked on in 1998-9, but that album remained unreleased. Although tracked separately in the studio, the song seems to have purposively been conjoined with Roadhouse Garden when released as the fifth track on the second disc (titled From The Vault & Previously Unreleased) of Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition in 2017 (as Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden), emulating the live rendition of both, using the same four-on-the-floor bass drumbeat, performed as segueing into one another. It is unclear if this was originally intended by Prince for the studio version as well, or that it was only done as such before their inclusion on the second disc (titled From The Vault & Previously Unreleased) of Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition. It has been suggested this was possibly the case as there was a limit set to the number of songs to be released on the bonus disc of the release. Of note is that this is the earliest recorded track to feature Lisa Coleman on lead vocals. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info late May or early June 1984 (assumed) Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA (assumed) Basic tracking of Prince solo version (assumed) 7 June 1984 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA Live recording 27 September 1984 Sunset Sound - Studio 2, Hollywood, CA, USA brass overdubs 28 September 1984 Sunset Sound - Studio 2, Hollywood, CA, USA string overdubs, Lisa Coleman lead vocal and mixing 29 September 1984 Sunset Sound- Studio 3, Hollywood, CA, USA Jill Jones lead vocal and mixing 12 May 1985 Sunset Sound - Studio 3, Hollywood, CA, USA overdubs Recording Personnel initial live recording Prince - lead vocals and guitar Bobby Z. - drums (unclear if audible on released version) Brown Mark - bass guitar (unclear if audible on released version) Wendy Melvoin - guitar (unclear if audible on released version) and background vocals Lisa Coleman - keyboards (unclear if audible on released version) vocals Dr. Fink - keyboards and background vocals (unclear if audible on released version) additional recording Jill Jones lead vocals (alternate version) Orchestral Players: Sid Page and Marcy Dicterow-Vaj - violins Denyse Buffum and Laury Woods - violas Suzie Katayama, David Coleman - cello Tim Barr and Annette Atkinson - upright bass John Liotine - trumpet Brad Warnaar - french horn Steve Madaio - saxophone Dick Mitchell - sax / flute Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden 6:25 Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition (From The Vault & Previously Unreleased) Studio Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in... Title Length Released Version Additional info The Ladder 5:26 Around The World In A Day Studio Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info Our Destiny Studio, Prince solo Late April/ early May, Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA (assumed) Our Destiny Live 7 June 1984, First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, before overdubs Our Destiny Studio (likely based on live rec.) Studio version with Jill Jones vocal and horn & string overdubs

Additional Information See also Trivia Purple Rain Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Expanded Edition album Purple Rain movie References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018) Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)

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