PARTICULARS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARTIST YOU KNEW AS PRINCE

PRINCE AND AMERICAN ROCK BAND MOTLEY CRUE

HAD A WEIRD RELATIONSHIP. WHEN PRINCE’S

GIRLFRIEND VANITY BROKE UP WITH HIM SHE

WENT ON TO DATE AND EVENTUALLY GET

ENGAGED TO THE BAND’S BASSIST AND

COFOUNDER NIKKI SIXX. IRONICALLY, WHEN

PRINCE DIVORCED HIS WIFE, MAYTE GARCIA,

SHE BEGAN DATING THE BAND’S DRUMMER

AND BAD BOY, TOMMY LEE.

PRINCE ADMITTED STRUGGLING WITH DEPRESSION

DURING DIFFERENT PERIODS IN HIS LIFE. HE

ONCE STATED IN AN INTERVIEW THAT HE

LITERALLY GOT PHYSICALLY ILL FROM

DEPRESSION DURING THE DIRTY MIND ERA

PRINCE ONLY AGREED TO RECORD THE

SOUNDTRACK TO TIM BURTON’S FIRST BATMAN

FILM BECAUSE HE HAD A CRUSH ON KIM BASINGER,

WHO STARRED IN THE MOVIE. THINGS WORKED OUT

FOR HIM SINCE THEY DATED FOR ALMOST A YEAR

JUST LIKE DAVID BOWIE, IT HAS BEEN REPORTED

THAT PRINCE WOULD OFTEN WORK FOR TWO

OR THREE DAYS STRAIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP ON

HIS EARLY ALBUMS

MICHAEL JACKSON'S “BAD” WAS SUPPOSED TO

BE A DUET WITH PRINCE, BUT PRINCE DECLINED

ONCE HE FOUND OUT THAT THE SONG’S

OPENING LINE, “YOUR BUTT IS MINE,” WOULD

BE SOMETHING MICHAEL WOULD SAY TO HIM

BELIEVE IT OR NOT BUT LIKE A SECOND MOZART,

PRINCE WROTE HIS FIRST SONG AT AGE SEVEN.

THE SONG’S TITLE WAS TYPICAL PRINCE:

“FUNK MACHINE.”

PRINCE USED TO WRITE FAN MAIL TO JONI MITCHELL.

SHE LATER SAID DURING AN INTERVIEW THAT

SHE ONCE SPOTTED A YOUNG PRINCE GOING

“CRAZY” IN THE FRONT ROW AT ONE OF HER CONCERTS

PRINCE AND AMY WINEHOUSE ALMOST COLLABORATED.

AFTER PRINCE PUBLICLY STATED THAT HE WAS A

FAN OF HER MUSIC, THE BRITISH SINGER

EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO WORK WITH HIM