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  • for me Little Red Corvette was always his worst song

  • this brought back some memories for me...i'm talking bout when i was six years old jamming to "i wanna be your lover" and Still waiting..thanks for this one!!

  • This so called documentary/expose would have been a whole hellof a lot better HAD PRINCE ACTUALLY BEEN INTERVIEWED AND SPOKE OF HIMSELF, CAREER, LIFE!!!!!! These commentators are annoying with facts that are LIES and plays down real reaction to Prince adn his music. They are also off in opinions of how his music was received, where it stood on the charts, how popular it was/is. I'll wait for UNSUNG to do a REAL INTERVIEW/EXPOSE...

  • what song is the lick at the beginning and end of the documentary?

  • "Controversy" was the baddest, funkiest album ever!!

  • "Prince ROGER Nelson?" If you're gonna do a documentary, wouldn't finding out what his actual name is kind of be important? His actual middle name is Rogers. His father was in a band called the Prince Rogers Trio, and named him after the band.

  • Manyek, you have the best channel ever!!! Do you have the Omnibus/BBC - Prince Of Paisley Park movie...???

  • I LOVE PRINCE..

  • This was incredible!  Thank you for posting this documentary so much!!! Long live his royal badness!! (O:

  • Thank you for this upload.

  • PRINCE: THE GREATEST PRODIGY IN ROCK HISTORY!!!. THE GLORY YEARS STILL CONTINUE WITH SUPERALBUMS LIKE 3121, PLANET EARTH, RAINBOW CHILDREN. MUSICOLOGY, 2010 AND LOTUSFLO3R!!!

  • MANYEK! Thank you again as always. You are the 'Prince' and royal archiver of music material.

    This was a good piece that was flawed in some ways. To give short rift to the Controversy album is leave out a significant artistic statement in Prince's career as well the lack of comment on the Black Album. And the white-haired critic had some very narrow ideas mixed in with some insight.

    Dez Dickerson's perspectives were excellent as well as David 'Z' Rivikin & others. Good documentary.

  • @Pirate7X "Royal archiver of music material" I like that one mate! I think I have to start calling myself that way :)

  • @Manyek You earned it! (((salutes)))

  • ONE OF THE GREATEST PERFORMERS EVER!!!! PRINCE CONCERTS ARE EROTIC AND EXPLOSIVE!!!! WOW!!!

  • Love it Mang!

  • I have never heard of another artist.. where you know what song he wrote.. he is a mastermind...

  • Great info, but to what purpose it serves! We, the true music consumers usually don't get involved in the analysis of NATURAL inspiration, but some times I am suckered in to it. My opinion is not important, just the fact that I was around to enjoy... Soundtrack to my life, and as it is. THANK YOU PRINCE, for the love of expression!

  • @genarocolunga you know what tho, what you just described "music consumers usually don't get involved in the analysis of NATURAL inspiration"...this is the reason the music industry and the corporate Whorror show is ruining our lives, because we SHOULD be involved. we SHOULD analyze and we should be listening and consuming with a little more presence of mind. this is what Prince has been promoting. Dont just take shit at face value or YOU WILL PAY dearly in the long run. 

  • @genarocolunga Prince and a few artists like him in the desert that is the american shitmusic scene take the time to produce thoughtful sincere INVOLVING ART, they live it and breath it and will DIE FOR THEIR ART. The very least the listener could do is let the art into their soul and grow from it and THINK and analyze what is happeneing when they experience it. oh w8....this is the USA forget all I jsut typed cuz it doestn apply to THE most WILLFULLY DUMB CUNTry on the planet.

  • LETS GO CRAZY

  • @frankyboynyc So cliche

  • KAISHALASHA83 HONEY HIS SONGS ARE IN THIS DOVES CRY I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER NOTHIN COMPARES. DID U WATCH IT

  • Prince would not like this. Not one bit. Why do you think you can't hear any Prince songs on here?

  • @KaishaLaSha83 Agreed.

  • @KaishaLaSha83 cuz GOOGLE wants to try and profit somehow from someones product with NO PERMISSION TO DO SO!! u simpleton. Prince is doing what most CORPORATIONS do and just trying to control his product. YOUTUBE use to be cool before google got ahold of it. now Prince has to take some kind of control cuz he has no major distributor for his music.RIAA and iTunes, etc. are trying to force Prince into a position where he HAS to use the internet and Puketube to get attention.

  • The Overheim 8 voice Analog Synth. At around 29:00 very briefly. Interesting, I never knew about him using that keyboard...

  • ok i remember watching this before, and dez dickerson mention the gear he used. he said the LinnDrum and a certain keyboard i cant remember for my life. i'm trying to skim the video but i cant fall on the part. can someone remind me?

  • 1983 WAS THE ONLY YEAR HE DID NOT DO AN ALBUM BUT HE DID RELEASE NEW TRACKS ON THE B SIDES OF 1999 SINGLES WHEN THE RADIO STATION IN SC 1ST PLAYED WHEN DOVES CRY THEY PLAYED IT 2 TIMES IN A ROLL UNHEARD OF 4 A RADIO DJ 2 DO HE HAD 2 FIGHT 2 RELEASE THAT TRACK AND 2 PROVE MY POINT GO LOOK AT THE MOVIE PURPLE RAIN AND LISTEN TO THE COMMENTARY ON THE DVD

  • Black artist. It's hard enough in this country & world being a black man. Prince has a lot courage & remained so through out his long career. Dealing with a lot of Haters. Critics & the public who judge him & don't even give him a chance cause they think they know him but they won't go any further then the cover. Prince has remained very silent when it comes 2 his private life & his politics. He's divulged a little info through the lyrics in his songs but that's it. Enjoy his music & calm down.

  • gay & doesn't talk about his sexuality publicly but he has in his music like songs like "Controversy". But people who criticize or judge Prince, give him a break & get off his back. He's an artist. And I'll repeat saying that I have Never heard Prince speak publicly against gays....Never. But I'll stand 2 be corrected if someone can tell me where Prince spoke publicly on air, TV, in the press, in books, or wherever against gays. I Love Prince's music & his courage as an artist, especially as a

  • Prince is a Performer & a Great Performer! His choice of clothing or costumes are just that. His performer costumes, he's performing so why do a lot of people constantly talk about Prince being Gay? And why does anybody care? I always knew Prince did or does not have a big gay following like say....Madonna. Of course, he's not white & not a woman also but nobody or very few people talk about MJ being gay & gays, like myself Love MJ but Prince gets static & hater backlash cause he says he's not

  • A musical god!!!!

  • PRINCE'S HITS PERFORMED BY OTHER ARTISTS: I FEEL FOR YOU (SHAKA KAN), WHEN YOU WERE MINE (CINDY LOUPER), SUGAR WALLS (SHEENA EASTON), THE GLAMOROUS LIFE (SHEILA E.), LET'S PRETEND WE'RE MARRIED (TINA TURNER), LOVE SONG (MADONNA), MANIAC MONDAY (BANGLES), NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU (SINEAD O'CONNOR), KISS (TOM JONES), HOW COME YOU DON'T CALL ME ANYMORE (ALICIA KEYS), PRAY (M.C. HAMMER) AND MANY OTHERS THAT I DO NO REMEMBER.

  • WELL I WOULD LIKE TO WACTH A COMPLETE SAGA ABOUT HIS 60 (SIXTY) ALBUMS NOT ONLY THE 80s. "LOTUS FLOWER", "CRYSTAL BALL", 3121, "PLANET EARTH", "EXODUS", "SLAUGTHER HOUSE", 2010, "RAINBOW CHILDREN" AND MANY OTHERS ARE CLASSIC ALBUMS. THE SONG "DREAMER" IS AMAZING WITH ITS GUITAR SOLO: HIS BEST AFTER "WHEN DOVES CRY".

  • Wow, Prince dreams his songs. That's deep.

  • @MrMoodyHyadd I WAS A PRINCE FAN LONG B4 PURPLE RAIN I MEAN I WAS THERE FROM SOFT AND WET UNTIL NOW. I WENT 2 HI-SCHOOL FROM 83-87 AND HE RELEASED BACK 2 BACK ALBUMS ALL OF THEM GOOD I DONT REMEMBER ANYONE GIVING A SHIT ABOUT HIS CLOTHES HIS MAKE UP OR BEING GAY IN 1984 THE MAN PRODUCED PURPLE RAIN , THE TIME APPOLOLINA 6 AND SHELIA E AND TRUST ME U HAD 2 BLAST GLAMOUROUS LIFE LOUD 2 EVEN HEAR HIS VOICE ON THAT TRACK

  • THE LIPS SPEAKING AND THE WORDS ARE NOT COMMING TOGETHER IT REMINDES YOU OF A CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS MOVIE.

  • @happyfillings12 correction it reminds you america's horrid dubbing of chinese martial art's movies

  • GGloom all he had to say was NOTHING. Its none of his business and he has yet to come up with an "ungay" look for himself. NO ONE was more furious than us. He is in no position to make any kind of negative statement when it comes to us. He should just say he is GRATEFUL. AM so glad I tossed his cps

  • What is contradictory about "Prince" is that his look and style are that of a very flamboyant GAY man yet he recently spoke out against GAY marriage. Really? You want to capitalize on a look that we branded in the community yet deny our HUMAN RIGHTS? I discarded all of his cds after he made this incredibly STUPID statement. Yeah "IF I Were Your Girlfriend". What an absolute MORON.

  • @singlos1 He later said his comments were taken out of context and was very angry after he read what was published.

  • @singlos1 I have too agree. He spent his whole career looking and acting like a gay man. He wore make-up and eyeliner, lace, blouses, etc. Alot of people thought he was gay when he first came out and afterwards. I remember working with a gay man who thought that Prince was gay but did not come out and say it, that he was ashamed of being a gay man and that he did not support the gay community. If a Prince song came on the radio the guy would go over and turn if off or turn the station, LOL

  • @singlos1 Hello friend, but where did U hear about Prince speaking against Gay marriage? I haven't heard him say anything about being gay or the gay community or anything in that vain. I'm a gay man & a Prince fan. I don't care if he's not gay or whatever. I'm in2 his music....Period. But if U know Where U Heard Prince speak out against Gay marriage please let me know. And I hope it was not what U heard someone say, I want 2 know where quote 4 quote where he said something negative about gays. ?

  • Very interesting...

  • his mother was not white

  • I have been a fan of prince since 1980 Lol.

  • Thanks for this! I'm a new Prince fan I want to know more about him, this helped.

  • He is no Michael Jackson

  • @BombaClaudie yup he's more talented and didn't turn himself white.

  • Prince is the last "real" musician in R&B period!

    O+> Forever.

  • i saw prince 3 times :) i looovee him!!

  • Search for Rahjwanti Search for Rahjwanti Search or Rahjwanti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • Prince is the G.O.A.T.!!!!!!!!!

  • @diegosalesjp Lovesexy is a brilliantly produced and recorded album. It was the first album he actually created with his then new Paisley Park Studios in late '87, etc. There's a brilliance and power to the music, you just may need a better audio system or head/earphones, player or somethin'.

    At the time, if you were choosing to go with Prince over NWA... the album was full of a spirituality that was contagious! You could feel a "rebirth" or an eclectic spirituality, uplifting, etc.

  • @jeannielovesrick62 Of course not, the documentary covers the salaciousness of a Prince he no longer is. Prince is a hardcore Jehovah Witness now, and tries to cover up the "nasty" "horny" Prince of his Warner Brothers years.

  • huge prince fan here, thanks for posting!

  • AMAZING XXX

    

  • This one is great, the sad thing of course, Prince didnt give permission for use of his music. He's sent out lawyer letters to certain other associates to stop talking about him...

    Owen Husney was such a big part of starting Prince's career and I remember that Prince on Larry King in '99 or '00 said that Owen's name "escapes him at the time" - Prince said this. Now, I thought, how could you forget Owen's name... c'mon.

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  • OMG I'M LITERALLY ALMOST IN TEARS...THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS..Hearing this insight about Prince, speaking to those who worked with him directly, Seeing and Hearing Dez Dickerson speak and expose who Prince was at that time...all of this is truly magnificent. And I thank you ever so much for posting.

  • Did I miss it or did they pretty much bypass the controversy album in about 30 seconds... and they are interveiwing Dez Dickerson and he doesn't even say why he left the band!

  • @RobotronZone Yeah, they skipped on many things, subjects, it sort of skipped the surface of his "glory years" which I call the Warner Brothers Years or Classic Prince. But they did have some key people, even Claire Fisher! - that were associates and they shared great stuff.

    But there's more! No Sheila E. Probably bowed out of respect to Prince not approving the doc. Wendy & Lisa? The Revolution? They had Bobby Z.'s brother in it...? Susan Rogers? Coke? Jill... Tyka... Eric... WB execs.

  • Prince is one of the best ever.

  • Thanks for posting this .

  • @antigoniem06 --Wrong! both of Prince parents are black. Dont believe, google it..............

  • i luved under the cherry moon. good soundtrack too. one of my fav prince albums.

  • cool documentary, I wish they could have included his 90's music, like Diamonds and Pearls, that was my fav prince song. But Manyek you did a good job uploading all these documentaries. I was born in 81 so it's good to see what happened pre 80's.

  • @romelled The "glory years" kid. Prince's glory years. The early part of the 90's were interesting and at times also brilliant, but I think the documentary producers probably said, lets stop at a high note - The Batman commercial/pop culture success.

    Post WB is a whole other story, maybe a whole other documentary.

  • if the audio bothers you stream the clip through vlc media player and use synchronization to match up the audio and video

  • i like his dancing and music and everything else about him.

  • thank you for posting, I have never seen this and I totally enjoyed it ; ).

  • WHy isn't Prince talking?

  • @diegosalesjp Love Sexy is one of my favorite albums- ana stesia.. I think the album cover is what made it flop

  • Thanks for posting this---I don't know where else I would have seen this--I loved it. Prince is a musical God!~ point blank.

  • thanks for posting this very interesting documentary

  • is he indian?

  • @imaginator No, his mother is white and his father is black.

  • Wow! I always thought Clare Fisher was a woman! Hahahah!! Prince, you are THE MAN!!

  • Lovesexy is a classic.

  • A lot of Paul Gambacinni's commentary is very irritating. Lovesexy having one good song in particular made me yell at the screen. If Paul is too one-dimensional to appreciate the utter genius of that album, that's his problem!

  • @eliarulli I found most of what he said was very accurate. He may be more partial to the more carnal qualities of the earlier Prince, maybe he came of age with Dirty Mind in NY or something. Lovesexy may have been too... religious-y even though it wasn't, it was spiritual so maybe thats why he's put off by it. You just need to do some background on Gambach so you know WHY he may have been put off... and it wasn't the cover...

  • i enjoyed this documentary the only drawback was the hate towards HIP HOP every rapper doesn't talk about homophobic stuff or bling that's BS ...Anyways Prince is most definitely that DUDE

  • @juniornlondock Gambachiccinochio mentioned homophobic for a reason. But he is right... terrible. I completely agree with his sentiment that it was just that. You chose - Prince or NWA. Real musicians or criminality?

  • @wendileona Why choosing NWA as an example? How about Talib kweli or common? so u mean to say that HIP HOP is only represented by NWA? ...please dont being narrow minded ... One artist doesn't define a whole genre ...n by the way NWA ...they werent criminals Ice cube makes BLOCKBUSTERS movies and Dr dre ..well your children probably ask u for BEATS by dre headphones for Xmas

  • @juniornlondock I dont want to get into it. But then, at that time, I'm referencing roughly '87, '88, thats what it was, not the ones you mentioned. You're defending a wrong but thats your thing. Gangstathugbangeraphiphop is a glorification of criminal based sub-culture, accepted, used for marketing wanna-be audiophile (look it up) equipment by corporations as ONE example of a wider big business, ie, entertainment, techcompanies, you name it, to use it to promote a new minstrelsy.

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  • @juniornlondock Example - George Clinton protested against injustices through his music, not by glorifiying period criminality but in a creative, new way that was interesting, drew attention to a struggle and through his performances, music was cathartic. He didn't emulate, glorify criminality, it would be masochistic, self-oppressive, internalizing oppression. In a way, Clinton didn't allow through his thang to be used as a vehicle to oppress HIS PEOPLE. That was FUNK.

    - Gary

  • the perspective on this documentary is awkward and a little hilarious. Thanks for posting!

  • please can some one fix the sound?

  • @carolincas

    unfortunately I can't do that... it's something wrong with youtube because sound works pretty well with image when I watch this video on my hard disk

  • @Manyek well then i thank you so much anyway for posting this. it was great information and a lot of fun.

  • @Manyek reupload?

    

  • @Manyek - no video I have ever uploaded throws off the sound. Its you!

  • @carolincas if the audio bothers you stream the clip through vlc media player and use synchronization to match up the audio and video

  • @carolincas I think there's a DVD you can purchase. I know I am.

  • "We been doing this since Prince was the bomb, before he changed his name and started makin wack songs"- Big Pun. Tribute to this era in Prince's career.

  • Fascinating documentary, thank you.

    I am shocked and very disappointed that there was almost no mention at all of Time, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Monte Moir, Morris, and the rest of that group of geniuses. This aspect of Prince was huge, something that he spawned and then released into the wild. If this doc was "unauthorized," why cut them out of the story??? Sure, he fired Lewis/Harris once, but I'll bet he's proud of them by now.

  • @organfreak Prince's whole WB era is full of amazing fascinating stuff of course! Yes, The Time! What he was doing with Vanity 6! The Rick James tour! Prince was so much at the time, that I think you'd have to fill up several DVDs with documentaries for almost each era during his WB years!

  • is this the longest video on youtube?

  • @Ledaballs I was wondering the same thing - YT makes you upload longer videos in 10-minute chunks, but somehow this video is 90 minutes in one chunk?! How is that possible. Cool doc , though!

  • @Ledaballs lol

    

  • ITS FUNNY HOW PRINCE MADE SURE HIS MUSIC WASN'T ON YOUTUBE BUT IT'S A WHOLE DOCUMENTARY ON HIM ON HERE LOL!!!!!

  • @caramelcutie739 Not playing any real Prince music in this documentary though ;-)

  • @BillyJBitch :(

  • @caramelcutie739 lol don't say it too loud, Prince might catch on!

  • This little yellow motherfucker is a fucking unacclaimed era. Take James Brown, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, David Bowie, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke and throw that shit in a blender and pour out this over-talented, ass-kicking, hell of a performing maniac. Thank you for being part of my musical memories and some of the best live shows I've ever seen since the landing of the "Mothership". Thanks for posting this! PS........Dez, you have aged well my brother. Respect.

  • @dkapone true. but i would add george clinton as well. and yeah-dez doesnt get enough recognition.

  • does anyone know where i can get prince's demo tracks before For You came out?

  • @mredline1 you can do a search at torrenthound for the term i-vault...it should have around 600+ mp3's in there of bootlegs, soundboards, and, yes, even the incidental music from the movie "Purple Rain". There's also some stuff in there that were recorded off of a portable cassette recorder as well.

  • @mredline1 There are albums that came out which feature Prince in a band before getting a record deal - look for "Minneapolis Genius", title for them, several releases.

  • Great stuff. Knew most of it, but it's always good to hear fresh perspectives from people like Gayle and Dez who rarely speak.

  • I don't know where you got it but thanks..I grew up during the Prince Reign..and I was glued to the information..

  • Thanks for posting this. Love it !!

  • Sorry, but Prince is a down low brother. Though many say he's not, but he sure acts like one though I don't really care.

  • @Greatersend Uh, Prince is a lesbian.

  • @FedUpSista Thank-you because he acts like one which I meant by low down brother.

  • @Greatersend If you don't care why make a post about it. Damn, why can't folks celebrate his depth as a musician and songwriter rather than gossip

  • Prince is the best!

  • No major star had been that out there? uh.. David Bowie?

  • @Echsentriq americans never think of anything outside their own country's borders - it never happens in these documentaries... 'the world' means the usa to these people.

    it happens all the time on movie and tv DVD documentaries

  • @hcvang

    do you realize that when you made that statement you became the very thing you criticized? it's humanly impossible for you to have watched EVERY documentary about American born musicians/bands, yet you say it "happens all the time".

    your jealsouy is causing you to say some really ignorant and foolish things.

    or it could also be just another case of reflection.

  • @kennyconga

    Who is talking about documentaries? If you're going to claim that 'no other major star had been out there', doing what Prince did, when bowie did it, among others, in the 70s and 60s, then you're just plain wrong - but america doesnt care, 'cause if it's not done in the US of A, then it doesnt count. Apparently.

    Gotta love Americans...

  • @Echsentriq Yeah, at 24:22 buddy get's it wrong without mentioning Bowie...

  • Everybody is born with gifts...and Prince knew who and what he was early on!!! The melodies in his head that transformed to compositions were for him... exclusively!!! Prince is beyond genius...he's an illuminated body of musical light that most can only watch and listen to in total awe and disbelief!! this world will never see the likes of his kind again...one time around only!!!!

  • Very interesting. Can you imagine Maurice White's influence on Prince? Or how about Prince's influence on Tone, Toni, Tone. "Things are gettin crazay, i ain't wearing Paisley.

  • Thank you...from a Prince fan for Life :-)*~~~

  • wutz tha name of the track in tha beginning?

  • Manyek ...I see u, you've been putting in some work....thanks for what you've done

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