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Purple Passion By Earnest I. Perry

"Good evening ladies and gentle- men, my name is I'I ince and I i < ime to play with you And play he did for two hours his Royal Baddness , hack ed by rhe Revolutii in, played ti. .1 pat ked audience 1 in January 11 .11 the Summit in Houston, much ti 1 the en iwd - delight Prince was in the Texas swing of his current lour, which included shows dur ing New Year's weekend in Dallas and .1 stop in Austin, promoting his latest album Purple Rain' which is also the title ol the movie portraying his early career The ind the albu 11 were released this past summer I he concert was lull ol tog, lasei lights and Prince performing his sexually expli 111 .iii Me started the concerl by reciting the beginning of his I111 single Lets Go Craw' with the lights turned down We are gathered here together to celebrate this thing called life. An electrii word life When the music started, the lights v inn with .1 flash The real electricity was beginning h'or the firsi pan >>t the com ni Prince played many 1 if his old songs. "Little Red Corvette. 1999 and a When he returned, the sexualh explicit few 1»! his earlv love songs portion of the show began, with .1 cut from !ns latest album. Darling \icki." \i 1 me |"mil he dedicated .i song i> 1 Mam ol the women began screaming as * (iod in which he sang about the things pulsated acn iss the stagt an : he Ciod created At the end ol the song he gan singing directly 10 them spoke as il he were holding .1 conversa N Toward [he end . .t the concerl Prince lion with (iod. saving. "I wain i' 1 be good, was joined onstage In Shelia K . win 1 had bin they like me when 1111 bad opened the com en, and Jerome from the 1' T> ((verail, the first part of the concerl was Time good excepi for a few songs when Prince em led (he concerl \\ ith the title Prince's voice seemed to overpowei the song from his album Purple Kain rhe ■ ithei members of his band when singing audience largely female, stood up waved Dan Jenkins: Author of Semi- in unison their hands ,,\K\ sang pans ol the song The worsl pan ol the show was the w itli him There was purple snii ike even Tough and Life Its Ownself com- 10-minute break thai seemed like IS 111 whereas Prim e stood in the middle of the ments on past football season. the middle of the concert Before he left set with lights m the hai kground And the stage he made it seem as il the o UK en then he exited, leaving the 1 n iwd with the was over, bui everyone knew he would impression they had been visited In a return purple angel Monday, February' -J, 1985 5/Monday, February 4, 1985

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