Parade (Prince album)
Occupation
- All songs were produced by Prince and the Revolution, arranged, composed and performed
- Sheila E. - backing vocals in Girls & Boys, Cowbells in Life Can Be So Nice, drums in Venus de Milo
- Susannah Melvoin - background vocals in Christopher Tracy 's Parade, Girls & Boys, ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD
- Jonathan Melvoin - Drums in Do U Lie?
- Eric Leeds - saxophone in Girls & Boys
- Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar in Mountains
- The Revolution - Mountains ( contribution not well defined )
- David Z. Rivkin - Arrangement in Kiss
- Mazarati - backing vocals in Kiss
- Sandra Francisco - "Little Gypsy Girl" (French spoken sentence ) in Do U Lie?
- Marie France - "The French Seduction" (French spoken sentence ) in Girls & Boys
- Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin - ( posts are not precisely defined )
- Clare Fischer - composition and arrangement of the orchestra
- Isabelle Daskoff, Francine Walsh, Mari botnik, Pam Gates, Janice Gower, Karen Jones, Betty Moor, Irma Neumann, Assa Drori, Bill Hymanson, Oscar Chasow, Ron Clark, Henry Ferber, Erne Granat, Ed Green, Bill Hybel, Reggie Hill, Pat Johnson, Don Palmer, Sheldon Sanov, Joe Schonbrun, Terry Schonbrun, Harold Wolf - violin
- Viola - Pam Goldsmith, Margot Maclaine, Carol Mukagawa, Myer Bello, Alan Deverich, Norman Forrest, Alan Harshman, Jorge Moraga, David Stock
- Jim Arkatoff, Ray Kelley, Ray Kramer, Fred Seykora - Cello
- Cuck Domonico, Arni Egilsson - Double Bass
- Gene Cipriano, Don Ashworth, John Clarke, Dave Edwards, Gary Foster, Jim Kanter, John Lowe, Dick Mitchell, Jack Nimitz, Joe Soldo, Bob Tricarico - Woodwind
- Ray Brown, Rich Cooper, Bob Findley, Larry Ford, Bob O'Donnell, Al Vizutti - Trumpet
- Garnett Brown, Charles Loper, Morris Repass, Bill Watrous - trombone
- Marni Johnson, David Duke, Joe Myer, Brian O'Connor, Calvin Smith, Jim Thatcher - French Horn
- Tommy Johnson - tuba
- Brent Fischer - Timpani and Percussion
- Arne Frager - recording of the orchestra
- Sound engineer - Susan Rogers, Peggy McCreary, Coke Johnson, David Z. Rivkin, David Tickle, David Leonard
- Mastering - Bernie Grundman
- Photography - Jeff Katz
- Art director - Laura LiPuma, Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
- Collage - Ann Field
- Personal management of Prince - Bob Cavallo, Joe Ruffalo, Steve Fargnoli
- Corporate governance - Fred Moultrie
- Legal representation - Lee Phillips
Parade is the eighth studio album by American musician Prince. It was released on March 31, 1986 under the label Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park and serves as the soundtrack of the film shot by Prince Under the Cherry Moon - Under the Cherry Moon. The album was commercially successful and internationally could reach gold and platinum status in several countries. Parade was the last album that Prince recorded with his backing band The Revolution. Four singles were released from the album, of which Kiss number could be one of the U.S. singles chart. The tour for the album was also commercially successful and Prince joined in 1986 live for the first time in Germany. Both the album and the tour was well received by the international press.
- 4.1 Singles
- 4.2 Music Videos
- 4.3 Cover Versions
- 6.1 Press
- 6.2 Charts
- 7.1 Grammy Awards
- 7.2 Minnesota Music Awards
Formation
On April 17, 1985 - ten days after the end of the Purple Rain tour and five days before the release of the previous album Around the World in a Day - Prince began in Studio 3 at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles ( California ) with the recording his album Parade. On the first day he took on the songs Wendy 's Parade, New Position, I Wonder U and Under the Cherry Moon. Previously Prince sound engineer Susan Rogers had given orders not to interrupt the recordings of these songs. Rogers said: " He [ Prince ] said, I 'm starting to play the drums, and when I stop, do not turn off the tape. Just run forward. ' He got behind the drums and stuck his lyrics in front of him on a music stand. We pushed for the inclusion of the tape recorder and he played the full drum tracks of four songs in a row. Four drum tracks just behind the other, all in the first shot! We have never cut between these songs something, they were taken as they were. "Prince used for the four songs including the Fairlight CMI, and Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman added the backing vocals. In addition, Wendy Melvoin took over the vocals on the song I Wonder U. After the Prince had four songs provided with overdubs and mixed, he took, among others, the song Life Can Be So Nice with Sheila E., which grossed the drums. On April 21, 1985 Prince nor the song Sometimes It Snows In April took on.
While Prince was busy with the recording of the album Parade in Studio 3, worked in the studio next door 2 the band Mazarati. Their producer was Prince ' bassist Mark Brown, and David Z. Rivkin worked as a sound engineer in the studio 2. The band Mazarati Prince asked if he could write them a song. Then Prince recorded the song Kiss on - but in a version exclusively with acoustic guitars - and gave the song to Mazarati on. " We did not know what we should do with the song. It was just one version on the acoustic guitar, "says David Z. Rivkin remembered. Together with sound engineer Coke Johnson, he and Brown revised the song Kiss Mark completely and added a drum machine, bass, piano and vocals the band Mazarati. Impressed by the results, revised the Prince song again by he took back the bass, guitar licks added and the singing - in a higher octave - took over themselves. David Z. Rivkin was eventually named as the arranger of the song Kiss, as it was later released as a first single of the album Parade.
In the summer of 1985 revised the Prince song Wendy 's Parade and changed the song title in Christopher Tracy 's Parade. Christopher Tracy is the self- Prince, played by the main character in the movie Under The Cherry Moon.
During the time in Los Angeles Quincy Jones arranged a meeting between Prince and Michael Jackson. Jones had produced Jackson's 1982 album Thriller and was of opinion Jackson and Prince - both commercially at that time very successful - should get to know at a dinner in Jackson damaligem home in Encino ( California ). The writer Quincy Troupe, who later co-author of Miles Davis - The autobiography, described the situation as follows: " It was a strange summit. [ ... ] The two [ Jackson and Prince ] sat there, stared at each other, but spoke very little. It was a fascinating stalemate between two very powerful guy. "
When Prince was back in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Studio, he sent the arranger Clare Fischer the songs on the album Parade for musical revision. Fischer added to each song - apart from Kiss - wind and string instruments added. But Prince unused every post fisherman and kept its revisions in only a few songs on the album with.
In July and August 1985 Prince began work on the album Parade in a studio called Washington Avenue Warehouse in Eden Prairie ( Minn. ) continued. He recorded songs like Girls & Boys and Love or Money. Wendy Melvoin, whose twin sister Susannah, Lisa Coleman and Sheila E. were involved in two songs. A week later Prince took the song Do U Lie? on, in the Brother Jonathan Melvoin Wendy Melvoins (* 1961, † 1996) played drums; Wendy even sang along with Lisa Coleman a backing vocals in the piece. Then took Prince to the instrumental songs Venus de Milo and Alexa de Paris.
In November 1985, Prince still took in the Washington Avenue Warehouse on the song Mountains; the last song for the album followed on 16 December at the Sunset Sound the song ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD. Between the recordings for the album Parade April-December 1985 Prince worked in France to turn his film Under The Cherry Moon, in which he himself directed.
Design of the cover
On the front of the album cover a black and white portrait photo of Prince can be seen, which shows him with his hands, turned-in palms and splayed fingers. His gaze is directed towards the frontal camera. Prince wears a top with four buttons, which are centered and perpendicular. On the photo to the back of the album cover - which greatly resembles the front - Prince can be seen with closed eyes, like he is going to pull out the described top. What emerged is a necklace with a cross. Photographer of the album cover was Jeff Katz.
The record covers of the LP was designed as a hinged cover; in the inside as well as on the LP inner sleeve of the album are collages - also held in black and white - from different photographs of individual band members and scenes from Under the Cherry Moon - Under the Cherry Moon to see.
In the CD booklet, the collage of LP inner sleeve is not included; however, are also visible from the front and back of the album cover as a relief the photos. The lyrics of the songs from Parade are not printed in both the CD booklet as well as in the LP edition.
Music
Musical Style
On the album mixed Parade Prince - as on previous albums - different styles of music. For instance, come the songs New position and Girls & Boys from the genre radio, Mountains has influences of psychedelic rock of the 1960s and the song ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD is in the field of rock music. The song Kiss is a combination of influences from funk, R & B and pop. The song Venus de Milo is an instrumental piece, which is dominated by Prince 's piano solo. In the song Sometimes It Snows In April Prince used in addition to the acoustic guitar ebebenfalls mainly the piano - a set of drums he does not activate when the piece. The 67 - piece orchestra under the direction of Clare Fischer used for example in the song Christopher Tracy 's Parade used. Jazz influences can be heard on the album Parade also.
Singing
The texts sings Prince, both in his characteristic falsetto vocals as well as in deeper tones of voice, set to music melodic. The song Girls & Boys also contains a passage of recitative. It is also heard at two points of the album Parade of the French language. Marie France, at that time mainly responsible for ' Tour Wardrobe Prince, the song Girls & Boys holds a short French monologue. The French introductory sentence to the song Do U Lie? however, speaks Sandra Francisco.
List of titles and publications
All songs on the album Parade were produced by Prince and the Revolution, arranged, composed and presented, with the influence of Prince's backing band The Revolution is as low estimate. Only when the song Mountains, the members of The Revolution interact with - the contributions are, with Miko Weaver's use on rhythm guitar, but not defined. ( † 2001 * 1916 ), where the contribution of Nelson also can not be defined precisely as the composer of the songs Christopher Tracy 's Parade and Under the Cherry Moon be Prince and his father John L. Nelson.
Prince's backing band The Revolution consisted in 1986 of the following members:
- Wendy Melvoin
- Miko Weaver
- Lisa Coleman
- Doctor Fink (born Matthew Robert Fink)
- Mark Brown ( née: Mark Brown )
- Bobby Z. ( née: Robert B. Rivkin )
- Eric Leeds
- Atlanta Bliss ( née: Matthew Blistan )
Singles
From the album four singles were released: Kiss appeared on February 5, 1986, the single version is 3:46 minutes nine seconds longer than the album version. Since the album version merges seamlessly into the next song ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD, the last few seconds of the song will not be played. The song of the B-side Love or Money was unpublished until now. Mountains was coupled on 7 May 1986. The B-side Alexa de Paris is an instrumental piece and was so far also unpublished. On July 2, appeared in 1986 in the U.S., the song ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD as a single. The single version is cut to 3:23 minutes, and the B- side of European Edition is the song I Wanna Be Your Lover by Prince from the album 1979. In the U.S. Girls & Boys was the B-side. Girls & Boys was released on August 4, 1986 as the fourth single. The single version is cut to 3:27 minutes and was coupled out only in Europe. B-side is the song Under the Cherry Moon.
Music videos
The music video for Kiss is a studio recording, in which only Prince, Wendy Melvoin and Model Monique Manning can be seen. Prince sings and dances in the video, while Wendy Melvoin - sitting on a bar stool - this plays guitar. Monique Manning is the woman who appears in black underwear, lace cape and black sunglasses in the video. Director of the music video is Rebecca Blake. In the music video for the single Mountains all members of his backing band The Revolution, in addition to Prince to see was with the Prince in 1986 on tour. The video was shot in April 1986 in a French studio, as was Prince during the filming of Under The Cherry Moon in France. ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD has been recorded as a live version of a Prince concert with The Revolution on June 7, 1986 in Detroit ( Michigan ) in the Cobo Arena. The music video Girls & Boys consists mainly of a scene in the film Under The Cherry Moon, in the Prince with The Revolution recites the song. The additional scenes were also added during the filming of Under The Cherry Moon. Director of the music video is Prince.
Cover versions
Some musicians took up cover versions of songs from the album Parade, where Kiss was most frequently reinterpreted. For example, they covered the song Sabrina Salerno ( 1987), Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones ( 1988), Bob Belden (1993 ), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1995), Rodney Carrington (1998), Santi Debriano (1999), Palast Orchester featuring Max Raabe (2001 ), Texas Lightning (2002 ), Richard Thompson (2003 ), Nicole Kidman Hugh Jackman (2006), Nubya (2007 ), Uwe Schmidt under his pseudonym Señor Coconut (2008 ) Glee Cast featuring Gwyneth Paltrow (2011), David Helbock (2012 ) Maroon 5 (2012 ).
Girls & Boys was re-recorded by David Garza (1998) and The Dynamics (2007). Under the Cherry Moon who covered Simian (2001) and Sometimes It Snows in April among other Sanne Salomonsen (1998) and Soulounge ( 2003). The Belgian musician Bart Peeters took in 2002, a version in Flemish name Soms Sneeuwt Het in De Lente of the title on.
Tour
The tour kick off the Parade tour was in London, England on 12 August 1986. The tour ended on September 9, 1986 in Yokohama, Japan. The tour took place in Europe and Japan, included 19 concerts and Prince joined, among others, for the first time in Germany. The 15 concerts in Europe were visited by about 120,000 people and the concert length varied from 100 to 120 minutes. Previously announced Prince from March 1986 to August 3, 1986 ten concerts in the U.S., where the motto " Hit & Run " was. These concerts were partially announced a few hours before the beginning and they were all sold out. An opening act was not noted in the hit - and -run tour still at the parade tour. The backing band was The Prince of revolution, which then consisted of the following members:
- Wendy Melvoin - Acoustic guitar and backing vocals
- Miko Weaver - guitar
- Brown Mark - bass guitar
- Lisa Coleman - keyboards and backing vocals
- Doctor Fink - keyboard
- Eric Leeds - saxophone, brass and woodwind
- Atlanta Bliss - trumpet
- Bobby Z. - drums
- Jerome Benton - dancer and background vocals
- Greg Brooks - Dancer and backing vocals
- Wally Safford - dancer and background vocals
Chance played Prince songs I Wanna Be Your Lover, Miss You ( the song wrote The Rolling Stones ) Manic Monday ( the song wrote Prince for The Bangles), Little Red Corvette, Condition of the Heart, Paisley Park, The Ladder, Thu U Lie? , Sometimes it Snows in April, Love or Money and It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night from his then unpublished ninth studio album Sign o 'the Times, which was published in March 1987.
The final concert of the tour took Parade on 9 September 1986 in Yokohama in 50,000 -seat Yokohama Stadium instead and was the last appearance of Prince and the Revolution; on 17 October 1986, the separation was announced by Prince ' management.
Reception
Press
The reviews of the album Parade were largely positive. Davitt Sigerson of the U.S. music magazine Rolling Stone asked, " What musician except Prince still fills us confronted with a new plate with eager anticipation, the contrary we brought before new works of Dylan, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? " The U.S. daily newspaper Detroit Free Press said, " that Prince as melodies writer, arranger and musician is one of the best." Isaac van Deelen of the taz wrote: " Two Songs screw the head cover high: Under The Cherry Moon is beautiful and - how true - Sometimes It Snows In april. Of all the songs it can be said that they are looking that they try music. Even the genius of Prince enough to leave even try this place. Boundaries are involved, some of the liabilities of rhythm and tonality be touched. [ ... ] No new concept and not the tip of another wind. Parade is for Hardcore. Or, after the hundredth part I liked olives " The German weekly magazine Stern wrote, however: ". The new record is almost all rhythm, a wild collage of pure drum sound, the broken now and then by saxophone Sprengseln or hard piano inserts will. " Music journalist Barry Graves said in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit album Parade that" was superior to conventional U.S. pop charts light years of this fantasy fireworks of deja vu effects [ ... ] ". Michael Mönninger summed up in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: " For all the amorality you can not accuse him of: that he is primitive ... For Prince the ultimate superlative would have to be invented. "
When Herbert Grönemeyer was asked in the 1980s by the music magazine Music Express after which records he would take with as emergency rations to an island where he scored nine, including the Prince albums Parade and published in 1987 double album Sign o 'the Times.
Charts
Parade was internationally awarded several gold and platinum status. For example, it was
- In Germany gold for 250,000 copies sold,
- In Austria gold for 10,000 copies sold,
- In England platinum for 300,000 copies sold,
- Sold in the U.S. platinum for one million copies.
- Kiss reached Gold status for one million singles sold in the United States.
Awards
In 2010, the U.S. music magazine Rolling Stone chose the 500 best songs of all time, in which they put the song Kiss at No. 464. In addition, Prince has been honored in the parade era, among others, the following awards: