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. While an exact recording dates is not known, initial tracking took place in November 2004, during a three-and-a-half hour session with Michael B. on drums and Sonny T. on bass at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA that also yielded 3121, From The Lotus..., ...Back 2 The Lotus, Colonized Mind, Love Like Jazz, Wall Of Berlin and Guitar. 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