Track of the week 24/4/16
A sad week that saw the passing of Prince.
Always a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, I had the album “Purple Rain” on cassette tape and remember listening to it on loooooong train journeys – often from the furthest reaches of northern Scotland to the civilization that was London, whilst serving at some far-flung outpost (think RAF Kinloss, RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Leuchars – the latter of which was at least only 50 mins beyond Edinburgh, unlike the first two which really were at the ends of the earth.)
A couple of years ago, I bought the album on CD and was pleased to discover it has stood the test of time, and still worth a listen. Finding Prince’s work online is not easy – he protected his copyright vigorously (fair enough), so all the more important to own a physical copy.
He also wrote a lot of great music – I knew he wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U” which was brilliantly performed by Sinead O’Connor, I didn’t know that he wrote “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, but he did, and that is enough to make it my track of the week