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Prince | Official Podcast

The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 2: The Dream Factory

Prince | Official Podcast

Sony Music

Music Interviews, Music, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the winter of 1985-1986, Prince and his new fiancee Susannah Melvoin moved into a new property on Galpin Blvd. in Chanhassen, Minnesota, jumpstarting a spring and summer of nonstop creativity in Prince’s new home studio. Learn more about this space from Susannah, engineer Susan Rogers, Eric Leeds, and Atlanta Bliss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you ever just need to get out of the house and go for a drive?

0:04.0

Five hundred feet, turn right on to the

0:08.0

and gallon Boulevard.

0:09.0

Do you ever wonder what Prince would have written about quarantine?

0:12.0

So I'm out in Chan H. Prince would have written about quarantine.

0:13.8

So I'm out in Chanhassen.

0:16.0

I am outside of Paisley Park at the moment,

0:19.2

and I'm not gonna go in Paisley Park today,

0:21.3

but I decided to drive over here first because I am on my way to Galpin

0:28.9

Boulevard in Chanhassen and this is where Prince lived starting in the winter of the end of 1985 and he had a home studio there and that is where he recorded many of the Prince the story of Sign of The Times brought to you by

1:01.7

the Current in collaboration with the Prince Estate, Paisley Park, and Warner Records.

1:07.0

And parked on Paisley Path between Rogers Court and Paisley Court. This is a brand new street

1:20.0

that I'm parked on at the moment. It did not exist a year ago.

1:24.6

This whole property is currently under construction

1:27.5

and becoming a big subdivision out in Chanhassen.

1:32.1

And this used to all be princes.

1:35.0

Prince moved into this property in the end of 1985

1:40.0

and started recording there in early 1986.

1:44.0

The ballot of Dorothy Parker was the first thing he recorded in his Galpin Boulevard home.

1:49.0

Forever in my life, starfish and coffee.

1:54.0

And it wasn't just a creative space for him.

1:57.5

The Galpin Boulevard home was his first home that he wanted to build a life in with a romantic partner. At the time he had just

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