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*25 MARCH 1984*
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*9 TRACKS*
*’43 MINUTES’ / ’51 SECONDS’*
(average track length of ‘4 minutes’ / ’52 seconds’*)
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*SIDE 1*
“TAKE ME WITH U”
“THE BEAUTIFUL ONES”
“COMPUTER BLUE”
“DARLING NIKKI”
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*SIDE 2*
I WOULD DIE 4 U
BABY I’M A STAR
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*”purple rain” is the 6th studio album by american recording artist ‘prince’, the 2nd to feature his backing band ‘The Revolution’*
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*it is the ‘soundtrack album’ to the 1984 film of the same name*
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(it was released on ’25 june 1984′ by ‘Warner Brothers Records’)
(to date, it has sold over 22 million copies worldwide, becoming the 6th best-selling soundtrack album of all time)
(‘Purple Rain’ is regularly ranked among the best albums in music history, and is widely regarded as Prince’s ‘magnum opus’)
(‘Time’ magazine ranked it the 15th greatest album of all time in 1993, and it placed 18th on VH1’s Greatest Rock and Roll Albums of All Time countdown)
(‘Rolling Stone’ magazine ranked it the second-best album of the 1980s and 76th on their list of the ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’)
(the first 2 singles from Purple Rain, “When Doves Cry” and “Let’s Go Crazy”, topped the US singles charts, and were hits around the world, while the title track went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100)
(the album was certified 13x platinum (‘diamond’) by the RIAA)
(in 2007, the editors of Vanity Fair labeled it the best soundtrack of all time, and Tempo magazine named it the ‘greatest album of the 1980s’)
(the 1,000th issue of Entertainment Weekly dated July 4, 2008, listed Purple Rain at #1 on their list of the top 100 best albums of the past 25 years)
(in 2013, the magazine also listed the album at #2 on their list of the ‘100 Greatest Albums ever’)
(in 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at #2 on its list of “Best Albums of the 1980s” behind only Michael Jackson’s Thriller)
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(in the same year, the album was added to the Library of Congress’s ‘National Recording Registry’ list of sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important”)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“1999”*
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*“AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥