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Episode: 1984 - September: Prince & The Revolution “Purple Rain”
Description: In the fall of 1984 there was nowhere you could go in the United States without hearing something off of Purple Rain, the album and the motion picture from Prince and The Revolution. This album was the sixth studio album by Prince, and the first to also bill the band, The Revolution (although the band was hinted at on the album 1999, being written backwards on the album cover). Prince would become a superstar with this album and film.
Prince (aka Prince Rogers Nelson) was born into a musical family. His mother was a jazz singer and his father was...