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Music Video details First aired: November 1992 Producer(s): Information needed Director: Sotera Tschetter Related home video/DVD: The Hits Collection 3 Chains O’ Gold home video First (Commercially) Released: 14 September 1993 Awards Date Institution, Country Award This music video has not received any awards in the USA

7 is a Prince and the New Power Generation video released for broadcast and to promote the single. It features Prince and Mayte as well as twelve boys and twelve girls dressed as them. Footage of Prince in the glass cylinder and Mayte’s sword dancing was filmed at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, while the footage with the children was filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles, possibly in May 1992 (see trivia). The video follows the initial storyline of the album with Mayte telling Prince that she is the sole heir to a $10 million estate that her father left her when he was killed by the seven men who are her bodyguards. She states "They must never find them. They must never find us. If anything should happen to you..." before the song begins. This introduction was planned to be included in the album as a [http://princevault.com/index.php?title=Symbol_segues Shooting Information Shooting Sessions Date Location Additional info May 1992 Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA soundstage, Los Angeles, CA, USA Cast Prince Mayte 24 uncredited children (12 boys, & 12 girls) 7 uncredited men, including Duane Nelson, Joey Guzman & Robbie Paster - goons Larry Roupe - 'Princess Mayte’s father' Crew Sotera Tschetter - director More information needed Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info 7 6:02 The Hits Collection (1993) 7 4:32 3 Chains O’ Gold (1994) 7 5:17 Prince streaming video platforms (2017) Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2017) Broadcasts/streaming (only) Title Length Released Version Additional info 7 3:27 Act I TV-special Edited version Excerpts from the video with other footage and interviews

Additional Information See Also Quotation & triva 7 7 (single) The Hits Collection 3 Chains O’ Gold Home video The video was nominated for Best R&B Video at 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. In her 2017 biography "The Most Beautiful", Mayte writes that the shooting of the video occured in January 1993, but this is incorrect since the 7 was shown in the Act I TV-special in December 1992, and the album cover of the released in October 1992 is a still photography of that video. Furthermore, a short excerpt of an alternate edit of the video was included in a 3-minute video to promote the upcoming album that was shown before the Australian and European Diamonds And Pearls Tour concerts in Spring 1992. That advertisement was also included in the Sexy M.F. Home video released in 1992. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Awards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_MTV_Video_Music_Awards

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