PRINCE ERAS 1980-1983

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I like to call this era, “the climb”. This is before Prince Rogers Nelson was a bonafide über mensch. There were the last vestiges of that Mick Jagger stage presence still present in his shows. His frenzied staccato foot movement was ever present. In his European interview Prince was telling the guy, “I don’t listen to other music because I don’t like to overdo things.” he threw a little shade at Smokey Robinson through some shade at Jimi Hendrix and he wasn’t ready to appreciate his James Brown influences on stage the way he would later do that on the purple rain tour.
Prince was still very much uncooked. But he still had a powerful sense of self and that manifested itself in his style. The sense of style was always pretty singular. This period of time it was to become iconic and 81 he went to Europe and he saw for the first time, the different styles and fashions that were connected powerfully to music Punk leather hair colors were so tied to the music scene in England that prince couldn’t help but notice. New wave was sort of in its infancy stage and people like adamant, and Duran Duran were soon to really take over for the old rock ‘n’ roll style.
Hip-hop was also in its ascendancy in New York, and that was a whole other fashion trend thing that prince would have had to of seen even though it wasn’t that present in his visual style Blondie the Ramones, the New York dolls in America. The Clash, the sex pistols Adam and the ants in the UK Michael Jackson had released off the wall and he was pretty much on his way to superstardom and kind of was already a superstar. The 80s were still in their infancy
PRINCE’s Rolling Stones experience Bobby zhe talked about how  important that was for Prince. Prince had always had ideas of being a guru for new acts and he loved the movie IDOLMAKER, and for the next four or five years that’s exactly what he was. Vanity six, the Time,  Jill Jones, Jimmy, jam, and Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Mars de Susan Moonsie and Brenda Bennett along with the revolution, Bobby Z, Lisa, Coleman, Mark Brown, Dr. Fink, and the last bits of Andre Cymone’s and Prince’s BFF relationship were all features of Prince’s “end of the innocence”.
Lisa Coleman. The keyboard player for the revolution has noted on several occasions that Prince was a great band leader. At this point in his career being a leader was the most important thing and relationships and youthful ties, youthful ties, were something for the past. The roll out for 1999 as well as the drama during the triple threat tour was definitely a signal that everything was set for changes. Also, that prince was a boss.
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