Album dossier / 1984
Purple Rain
Prince and The Revolution · Funk/Rock/Pop
Prince's soundtrack to his own film debut was tracked live at First Avenue in Minneapolis on August 3, 1983 (engineered by David Z, who'd co-produced Prince's earliest Warner Bros. demos) before the reels went to Sunset Sound in L.A. for overdubs and mixing with engineer David Leonard and Peggy McCreary; the title track's famous strings were arranged by Lisa Coleman's brother David and cut with vintage Telefunken/Neumann mics. 'When Doves Cry' broke new ground by stripping out the bassline entirely, a choice Prince made alone in the studio against convention. The album spent 24 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
Record facts
- Label
- Warner Bros.
- Producer
- Prince
- Chart peak
- #1 Billboard 200
- Notable tracks
- ★ When Doves Cry
- ★ Purple Rain
- ★ Let's Go Crazy
Artist & discography
Complete 1980s Studio Discography
3 studio albums released from 1980–1989 by Prince and The Revolution. Archived records link directly to full dossiers; remaining releases are queued for harvesting. MusicBrainz source.
Complete track listing · 9 tracks
- Let's Go Crazy
- Take Me With U
- The Beautiful Ones
- Computer Blue
- Darling Nikki
- When Doves Cry
- I Would Die 4 U
- Baby I'm A Star
- Purple Rain
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musicbrainz.org, webuyrecordsusa.com, mixonline.com, matrixonline.net · track listing: https://www.discogs.com/release/125874 · cover art: coverartarchive.org
Last enriched: 2026-08-22