PARTICULARS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ARTIST YOU KNEW AS PRINCE
Added on: 4th Oct 2016
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
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