On his debut album For You, released when he was 20, Prince is said to have played every single instrument: 27 in all.
In the album's notes he's listed as the musician behind all vocals as well as (deep breath) electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, bass synth, singing bass, Fuzz bass, electric piano, acoustic piano, mini-Moog, poly-Moog, Arp string ensemble, Arp Pro Soloist, Oberheim four-voice, clavinet, drums, syndrums, water drums, slapsticks, bongos, congas, finger cymbals, wind chimes, orchestral bells, woodblocks, brush trap, tree bell, hand claps and finger snaps.
He also penned Kiss, made famous by Tom Jones, The Bangles' 80s pop classic Manic Monday and How Come You Don't Call? me Anymore by Alicia Keys.
Prince Onstage Playing Purple Guitar (looking Away), Toronto, 2004
Prince was also a songwriter for Madonna (and he played guitar on Like a Prayer) and for Cyndi Lauper and Chaka Khan. He sang a duet with Kate Bush. Spot the theme? He wrote badass classics for lots of badass females.
Legend has it that Prince challenged himself to write a song a day. I write so many songs, he told the Guardian in 2015, adding that he didn't get attached to older music because if I did, I couldn't move on and there'd be no space for a new song.
He's most famous for his late 1980s records like Lovesexy, 1999 and Sign O' The Times but in total he put out an amazing 39 studio albums, four live albums and multiple compilations.
Paisley Park, Prince's Lonely Palace
It is known that his music vault contains more than 50 fully produced music videos that have never been released. And without question there are dozens, possibly hundreds, of songs we have yet to hear.
Poverty makes people angry, brings out their worst side. I was very bitter when I was young, Prince told Rolling Stone magazine in 1985.
He built Paisley Park, a vast self-contained complex outside Minneapolis in his home state of Minnesota - and the place the star was found dead on Thursday.
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There is something called the galaxy room lit up by ultraviolet light and set up for meditation. And there are lots of large portraits of The Purple One.
There are also two full-sized music venues and the site's music studios were manned 24 hours a day on the off chance that he might want to record.
Inside Paisley Park was a permanent 10-strong team of tailors, employed to make bespoke clothes for Prince, his band and his girlfriends.
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His sense of style was a big part of Brand Prince and he loved to play around with gender - straddling a bike in leather one minute (in the legendary Purple Rain film), popping on pink, feathered shoulder pads the next.
And it's reported he shopped for sportswear in boys' sizes because of his small size. He was five feet two inches, shorter than Madonna.
During the mid-1990s he waged a war with his record label Warner Brothers, arguing that the company effectively owned and controlled him.
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No keyboard in the world could handle it although some newspapers found a way of adding it to their print settings thanks to a floppy disc (a memory stick, 1990s style) which was reluctantly mailed out by his label.
But the name change was actually a smart way of annoying Warner. He went back to his old name in 2000, after he'd been released from his contract.
And when he toured it the next year he insisted the ticket prices at huge venues like London's O2 should be £31.21.
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Fans trying to cope with the loss of one of the most unique artists in music history can't whack on a Spotify playlist to help deal with the pain.
Fans have been leaving tributes at a memorial outside First Avenue, a Minneapolis club where Prince filmed a large portion of his film Purple Rain
That's because - before the various streaming rows involving Taylor Swift and Kanye - Prince pulled his catalogue from Apple Music and Spotify, favouring only Tidal.
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Gett off, 23 positions in a one night stand/Gett off, I'll only call you after if you say I can. - Gett Off, 1991When Joe suggested the “Discover a Guitarist” series and asked if I would write an article, my first thought was, “Who is the most obscure, avant-garde, post-bop, minimalist 9-string shredder that only people in New Guinea have heard of?” And I would assign bonus points if they played Hendrix licks with their teeth.
Before that thought could fester into an article that would make Joe smack his head, I decided to get my soap box out and write about a musician that everyone has heard of, but few truly know what an incredible guitarist he is.
In my opinion, based on trying to hip people to Prince’s music since the eighties, the world view of Prince is that of a Pop Star and an entertainer, sometimes an eccentric, along the lines of Michael Jackson and Madonna. Too often though, music fans will listen as much with their eyes as they do with their ears. Sadly, if they don’t like what they see, they won’t give the music a chance. And I’ll admit, Prince pushed boundaries from day one with his fashion and song content.
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Since the first Prince lick I stole, I’ve heard Prince run the gamut of styles on his tunes. Rock, funk, jazz, blues, R&B, country and even shred (yes, he had a shred tune that he released through his old online music club, NPG Music). With 35+ official albums released, hundreds of bootleg albums and a vault of unreleased material, it seems he has the ability to play anything he wants.
My first Prince tune that I remember was “I Want to Be Your Lover” from 1978. I didn’t know it was Prince. All I knew was that the tune was catchy. The lyrics were a little saucy, but at 8 years old, I didn’t have a clue. It wasn’t until later when I was a fan and bought his back catalog that I realized that was his song.
My first memory of Prince was an argument I had with a friend in study hall in 7th grade. We were talking about music videos on MTV (yes, they used to play music videos) and we both liked the video for “1999.” The conversation was essentially me saying the band is called Prince because there is no way someone’s mama would name her kid Prince, that’s just too weird. My friend argued,
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Well, from the song “1999” until the end of the eighties, Prince was a chart topping monster and critic’s darling. Not only did he have his own hits, he wrote hits for other artists such as Stevie Nicks, The Bangles, Chaka Khan, Sinead O’Connor, Sheila E., Sheena Easton, The Time, and more.
In the eighties, when you bought a record, you studied the album cover, read the liner notes and listened to the tracks for hours. What made me a fan, more so than just good tunes, was the fact that on every other album I had, the songs were performed by a singer, a few guitar players, a bass player, a drummer, etc. You know, the band. In the eighties, on a Prince LP, every instrument you heard was Prince.
Around this time, ’83-’85, I had not started playing guitar. Even so, I knew there was something unique about a person that could play all the instruments on their album. The concept of how he did it was beyond me at the time. It wasn’t until I learned about multi-tracking with my first Tascam Portastudio that the light bulb went off.
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In order to save space and talk more about guitar, find a copy of Prince in the Studio (1975-1995): Volume One by Jake Brown. Jake interviews engineers that worked with Prince in the studio. He covers gear, mics, his recording process and more.
To a person, every engineer told the same story about Prince and how he created music. Prince expected the board to be ready, mics in place, all instruments connected, and the tracks armed for recording. Prince would then put the drum track down, bass lines next, then lay the keys and guitar parts down, kick the engineer out, and record vocals by himself.
Open up any guitar mag today. I’ll guarantee you will find bands that have just broken onto the scene that have full page endorsement ads for strings, gear, amps and more. They will likely also have an article in the magazine that goes into detail about why they prefer X strings for their Drop A tunings, how they worked hard with amp manufacturer X to create the sickest sounding amp and that they are so proud of their new, environmentally friendly, guitar straps made from baby seal skin harvested in the wild… because we all know baby seal farms are bad. (Proceeds from the strap sales will go to moving baby seals out of the farm and into the wild, where they can be green-harvested.)
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To this day, Prince has not endorsed any gear. He has been associated with gear from constant use, like his use of Boss pedals and Tele-style guitars, but never an
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