Video: The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

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The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

Music Video details

First aired:	9 December 1999
Producer(s):	Little Minx (production company)
Director:	Malik Hassan Sayeed
Related home video/DVD:
First (Commercially) Released:	15 December 2017

Awards
Date	Institution, Country	Award
This music video has not received any awards in the USA

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold is a Prince (as ) video released for broadcast and to promote the single.

The video was filmed at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, MN, USA, between 6 and 8 November 1999.

It features only Prince and a female dancer that went by the name Desray. Prince is said to have met her after spotting her in a chorus line of strippers at the Crazy Horse in Paris, France. The choreography performed by Prince and Desray in this video dismayed Mayte who was still officially Prince’s wife at this time when their marriage was in turmoil.

Shooting Information

Shooting Sessions
Date	Location	Additional info
6 to 8 November 1999	Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA
Cast
Prince (as ) Desray Junca
Crew
Malik Hassan Sayeed - director Steve Parke - still photography Chris Soos - director of photography Alex Frisch - VFX Supervisor More information needed

Versions

Released Versions

Title	Length	Released	Version	Additional info
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold	4:39	Prince YouTube channel (2017) Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2018)

Additional Information

	See Also	Quotation & triva

	The Greatest Romance Ever Sold The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (single)	In his cover of Sheryl Crow’s Everyday Is A Winding Road, Prince changed thew lyric I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man to I hitched a ride with a Crazy horse showgirl, likely alluding to Desray, the female in the video. Although Prince (as ) released a triple-album compilation (Crystal Ball) between Emancipation and Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic and there were many videos for the songs included in it, none of them was used as a promotional tool for the compilation (the rumoured video of 2morrow with footage from Blue Light is actually fan-made and unofficial). There were also no videos released, or known to have been shot, for The Truth (packaged with Crystal Ball).

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