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Prince live at The Ritz, New York, NY March 22nd 1981.

Parade Tour live at Isstadion, Stockholm on August 22nd 1986.

En 1985, lors du célèbre Purple Rain Tour, Prince se produit devant 50 000 spectateurs au Carrier Dome de Syracuse dans l’état de New York. La superstar, entourée de son groupe The Revolution, est rejointe sur scène par la chanteuse et musicienne américaine Sheila E, Apollonia 6 et le saxophoniste Eric Leeds.

On the 3rd of August 1983, Prince played a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theatre Company at First Avenue, Minneapolis. The concert was instigated by Loyce Houlton, artistic director of the long-time modern dance troupe. She had met Prince during the band's dance classes and asked him to play a benefit show. Prince's concert raise $23,000 for the financially beleaguered MDT dance company. The concert is generally regarded as one of the most excited shows he has ever played. The basic tracks of three songs from the concert were used on Purple Rain.

Tournée Purple Rain à Atlanta, le 4 janvier 1985

Intransigeant et mégalomane, le "Kid", musicien de génie, se cloître dans un isolement protecteur. Le leader d'un groupe funk, Morris Day, lui dispute une notoriété grandissante et le cœur de la belle et mystérieuse Apollonia. Les personnages de ce film interprètent pratiquement tous leur propre rôle, à commencer par Prince, la star des années 80.

Après 4 mois de tournée, Prince et son groupe reviennent à Minneapolis.

Prince performs in Passaic, NJ during his Controversy Tour on January 30th 1982. Even in black and white, the Minneapolis-born funkateer exudes purple-ness. Watch him whip this Capitol Theatre audience into a frenzy.

Le 7 juin 1986, Prince célèbre son 28ème anniversaire en jouant dans la salle comble Cobo Arena de Detroit. Le show a été filmé et édité pour une diffusion en Europe et au Japon pour la promotion du Parade Tour, qui se déroula sur huit pays en un mois.

The Hits Collection is a collection of music videos released in 1993 to accompany the Prince's greatest hits collection, The Hits/The B-Sides. Being a single VHS cassette/DVD, the collection is only an hour long and excludes many tracks from the audio release

Une performance de Sheila E. filmée au Warfield Theatre de San Francisco le 8 mars 1986, avec une apparition spéciale de Prince and The Revolution.

Prince and the Revolution perform live at the Summit in Houston, TX on 12/29/1982

Le 4 juin 1981, Prince donne son premier concert français sur la scène du club du Palace à Paris. Le show inclut 7 des 8 titres de l'album Dirty Mind sorti 1980, ainsi que des morceaux de son album éponyme de 1979.

A lineup of artists -- including Beck, Common, Gary Clark Jr., Foo Fighters, H.E.R., Juanes, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Chris Martin, Mavis Staples, St. Vincent, Usher and more -- pay tribute to Prince's unprecedented influence on music.

An awards show honoring the achievements of the members of the professional music recording industry. The members of the Recording Academy vote on who they think is most deserving of an award in 108 categories as specified by the academy.

Saturday Night Live est une émission de divertissement retransmise en direct depuis le Studio 8H du GE Building au Rockefeller Center de New York. Diffusé le samedi soir sur la chaîne NBC, le programme se compose de sketches, de parodies et de performances musicales. Il s'agit de l'un des programmes phares de la télévision américaine, qui a permis l'émergence de nombreuses stars de la comédie lors des trente dernières années.

The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981. The ninety-minute program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The show typically featured guest hosts, except for a period from July 1975 through March 1976 when singer Helen Reddy served as the regular host. Wolfman Jack served as the announcer and frequent guest host. The series also occasionally aired vintage footage of older acts. As the program neared the end of its run in the early 1980s, it began to frequently use lip-synched performances rather than live. The program also featured occasional comedic performances such as Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman.

Solid Gold was an American syndicated music television series that debuted on September 13, 1980. Like many other shows of its genre, such as American Bandstand, Solid Gold featured musical performances and various other elements such as music videos. What set Solid Gold apart was a group of dancers in revealing costumes who at various points in the program performed various dances to the top ten hits of the week. Many other specials aired in which the dancers would dance to older pop hits as well. Reviews of the show were not always positive, with The New York Times referring to it as "the pop music show that is its own parody...[enacting] mini-dramas...of covetousness, lust and aerobic toning--routines that typically have a minimal connection with the songs that back them up." The series ran until July 23, 1988, and it was usually transmitted on Saturdays in the early evening. In 1986, Solid Gold added the current year to its title, so in the seventh season the show was known as Solid Gold '86/'87. For the eighth and last season the program became known as Solid Gold In Concert, reflecting the addition of more live performances than had previously been featured on the program in the past.