Anil Dash on Nostr: Forty years ago today, Prince & the Revolution released "Purple Rain", his most ...
Forty years ago today, Prince & the Revolution released "Purple Rain", his most popular work, and one of the artistic and commercial peaks of the 1980s. The title ballad was an unusual and unlikely track to have become Prince's signature song, and this is the story of how it came to be.
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