Prince Purple Rain

摘要

The arguments over which of Prince's albums stands as his definitive statement will run and run, with 7999 and , Sign O' The Times both deservedly high on the list, but there's no doubt that the album which established him as the creative superstar of the '80s was Purple Rain. It's almost impossible to separate the album from the film of the same name because Purple Rain was conceived in the wake of Michael Jackson's ground-breaking, cinematic 'Thriller' video, and at the dawn of the impact of MTV. Rightly understanding that those two factors would be paramount in shaping the future of popular music, Prince conceived of the album and the movie as virtually a single entity, each integral to the whole.