Difference between revisions of "Planet Earth"

• 1 August 2007, The O₂ Arena, London, England
  
• 7 September 2007 (a.m.): 3121 at The IndigO₂, London, England

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• 2007

Planet Earth is the first track from Prince's 32nd album Planet Earth. Basic tracking took place on 19 November 2004, during a three-and-a-half hour session with Michael B. on drums and Sonny T. on bass at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded 3121, From The Lotus..., ...Back 2 The Lotus, Colonized Mind, Love Like Jazz, Wall Of Berlin, Guitar and a song titled Shameless as well as two or three others.
A tape photographed in Prince's vault at Paisley Park Studios lists Wall Of Berlin as 19 November 2004, which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions.
In an August 2006 interview, Michael B. said they recorded eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. And a different occasion he has later indicated that this was the last recording sessions they did with Prince for a while after that. Background vocal overdubs were subsequently done in 2007.
The album credits do not indicate who else played on the track.

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Michael B. - drums
• Sonny T. - bass guitar
• Shelby J. - background vocals
• Marva King - background vocals (uncertain involvement)
• Bria Valente - background vocals (uncertain involvement)
• The Twinz - background vocals (uncertain involvement)
• Other recording personnel not known.

• Planet Earth album

• The sessions that yielded this track is the first appearance of Michael B. and Sonny T. together on a released Prince recording since their Spring 1996 sessions as part of the New Power Generation