2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Prince’s endlessly iconic sixth album and quasi-autobiographical music film. To celebrate this landmark for a project that is often hailed as one of the ...

For all he did during his magnificent career, much of Prince’s legend comes courtesy of Purple Rain, the album he and the Revolution released 40 years ago this month, and the movie of the same name ...

Prince performs during the "Pepsi Halftime Show" at Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on Feb. 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Jonathan ...

The cover of "Prince's Purple Rain" by Andrea Swensson. (Courtesy Motorbooks/Quarto) Minneapolis music writer Andrea Swensson speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about her book commemorating the 40th ...

The list-loving Rolling Stone cultural arbiters love them some "Purple Rain," declaring that the 1984 Prince project is the greatest movie soundtrack album ever. In a list of the 101 Greatest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After your masterplan succeeds and so many of your dreams come true… then what? That is a question a 26-year-old Prince may well ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. The young artist envisioned a major motion picture as early as 1982, sketching out a story he called “Dreams.” After he ...

Prince’s “Purple Rain” becomes a bestseller on the U.K.'s music charts after being featured in a recent episode of Strictly Come Dancing, turning the decades-old cut into a smash. American Rock, Funk, ...

After your masterplan succeeds and so many of your dreams come true… then what? That is a question a 26-year-old Prince may well have been asking himself after “Purple Rain” transformed him into a ...