The Other Side Of The Pillow

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The Other Side Of The Pillow

from the album The Truth Song details Performer: First Released: 29 January 1998 - The Truth album Album(s): The Truth One Nite Alone... Live! Writer(s): Prince (as ) Producer(s): Prince (as ) Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 5 January 2002, Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA 28 November 2002: Osaka-jō Hall (大阪城ホール), Osaka, Japan Performed regularly on tour: One Nite Alone... Tour Performed occasionally in shows: 2002

The Other Side Of The Pillow is the eighth track on Prince’s 21st album The Truth (his fifth using the name ). In 2002, a live version was also included as the seventh track on the first disc of One Nite Alone... Live!, Prince’s first live album (along with Muse 2 The Pharaoh, Mellow and Strange Relationship from the same show), and a slightly edited version had been included seven months earlier as the fourth track on the One Nite Alone... Live EP promotional CD. Specific recording dates are not known, but was recorded in the winter of 1996 / 1997 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when sessions for the album took place. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info December 1996 - March 1997 Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA Recording Personnel Studio version Prince (as ) - all vocals and instruments Hans-Martin Buff - engineer Live version Prince (as ) - vocals and guitar John Blackwell - drums Rhonda Smith - bass guitar Renato Neto - keyboards Greg Boyer - trombone Najee - saxophone Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info The Other Side Of The Pillow 3:20 The Truth Studio The Other Side Of The Pillow 4:43 One Nite Alone... Live EP promo Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; slight edit of full track below The Other Side Of The Pillow 4:45 One Nite Alone... Live! Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; full version

Additional Information See also Trivia The Truth The credits on the 2021 re-release of The Truth wrongly lists John Blackwell, Rhonda Smith, Renato Neto, Najee and Greg Boyer as additional musicians on The Other Side Of The Pillow. The version included on The Truth is a solo performance by . He didn’t meet most of them until after this album was recorded. Blackwell, Smith, Neto, Najee and Boyer play on the live version of the song recorded five years later and included on One Nite Alone... Live!. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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