The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical ...

DAVID Z: The first time I was aware of "Purple Rain" was when Prince gave me a rehearsal tape of him teaching the song to the band. He was shouting out the chords, so it wasn't a complete performance ...

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Hill pulls elements from soul and, appropriately, doo-wop music for this track, filling it with hypnotizing harmonies, upbeat piano chords ... There's nothing like "Purple Rain" by Prince.

Sturgill Simpson returned to Charlotte for the first time since 2020 to perform in front of 5,000 country music fans at Skyla ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

Morris Hayes and Bobby Z, two longtime Prince bandmates, are serving as music advisers. A loosely autobiographical work about a kid who wants to make it in the music industry, “Purple Rain ...

Artists "I remember showing up at 10 or 11 in the morning and working on solos and that leading to two or three o’clock in the morning the next day”: How Metallica beat the clock and battled fatigue ...

The 'Purple Party' moved to a new day during Jazz Fest 2025, but it still brought the D.M.S.R. as good as ever.

Reporter The Saudi prince accused by the U.S. of approving the 2018 murder of a Washington Post journalist rolled out a ceremonial purple carpet for Donald Trump’s arrival in the Gulf nation.