Who is Jamie Star?

Oh,

Jamie Star.

That's a trick question.

One, two three. This is Prince, the story of 1999.

Brought to you by the Current in collaboration with the Prince Estate, Paisley Park and Warner Records.

I'm Andrea Swenson, I'm an author and a host at The Current and this is the third of four

installments of our deep dive into the making of Prince's 1999 and the new

super-deluxe reissue of the album which includes 35

never before release recordings from his vault. Like this one it's called

Don't Let him Foolia and Prince recorded this one alone at his home studio in

Chanhassen, Minnesota in the spring of 1982.

I've had a chance to talk to a lot of people who knew Prince in the early 80s as he was

developing 1999 and one theme that's emerged is that he loved watching movies. This is something that has been true about Prince for his entire life.

In his memoir, he revealed that he had a transformative experience

seeing Woodstock in the movie theater with his father and later in life he would rent

out the Chanhass in cinema for late night viewings with his friends. I actually

got a chance to see a movie with Prince Dayer once it was after a show at

Paisley Park he He rented out the theater

and a few dozen of us watch the James Bond movie Specter with him sitting in the back row.

A handful of movies from this pivotal early 80s period clearly had a direct influence on his artistic

output. They included the droning dark eraser head, which he watched on a loop at his

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