Difference between revisions of "Free"

One Nite Alone... Live!

• 8 April 1983: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI, USA
  
• 20 February 2016 (show 2): Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

• Purple Rain Tour
  
• One Nite Alone... Tour

• 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).

Initial tracking for Free took place on 25 April 1982 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, (five days after D.M.S.R., the day before How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore).

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
  
• Lisa Coleman - vocals
• Jill Jones - vocals (as "J.J.")
• Wendy Melvoin - background vocals (as "Wendy")

• 1999 album

• Prince contributed to another song also titled Free in 1998. This is an entirely different track, however, and receives a separate listing here.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)