PRINCE ON PARADE!
Following his Purple Rain tour in 1984, Prince announced to the music world and beyond that he was, in effect, “retiring” and would not tour again for an undetermined number of years. “I’m going to look for the ladder,” Prince said at the time, to the astonishment of millions of fans.
PRINCE ON PARADE!
Following his Purple Rain tour in 1984, Prince announced to the music world and beyond that he was, in effect, “retiring” and would not tour again for an undetermined number of years. “I’m going to look for the ladder,” Prince said at the time, to the astonishment of millions of fans. When pressed as to what he meant by this, he simply explained, “Sometimes it snows in April.”
Some eight months later—a short time for an artist of his stature—Prince released Around The World In A Day, a psychedelic-influenced pop LP. The album, unlike Purple Rain, had very little hype surrounding it, and produced two videos— “Raspberry Beret” and “America.” No tour followed, but Prince did sport a new, shorter, dazzling haircut similar to that of Liza Minnelli’s.
And whatever Prince’s definition of “retirement” might have been, he’s certainly employed now with a new LP, Parade, and a new soon-to-be-released movie, Under The Cherry Moon...and rumors are rampant that Prince will, indeed, tour again this yeah.