The Story of Sign O' The Times, Episode 8: Can I Play With U?

Prince | Official Podcast

Sony Music

Music Interviews, Music, Arts

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Prince rings in the New Year of 1988 with his final Sign O' The Times stage show—which included a historic on-stage collaboration with jazz legend Miles Davis. Hear from Duane Tudahl, Karen Krattinger, Cubby Colby, Alan Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, Eric Leeds, Levi Seacer Jr., Dr. Fink, and Cat Glover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a lot of things I could say about 87.
0:03.0	Pro and con, mostly pro.
0:05.0	But I'm not a speechmaker, so I'll do what I do best.
0:10.0	Thank you very much.
0:11.0	Happy New Year. Thank you. I'm going to be here. Yeah, if you all want to dance is cool.
0:47.2	This is Prince, the story of Sign of The Times,
0:50.2	brought to you by The Current in collaboration
0:52.2	with the Prince Estate,
0:53.2	Paisley Park, and Warner Records.
0:56.4	Welcome to the eighth and final episode of this season.
1:00.3	I'm Andrea Swenson.
1:01.7	I'm an author and a radio host in Minneapolis and it has been a total honor
1:06.8	to ride along on this journey with you as we've taken a deep dive into the
1:10.7	making of Prince's iconic album, Sign of the Times, and all of the vault material
1:16.2	that's included on the new expanded reissue of this album.
1:21.0	For our final episode, we're going to dig into the story behind the video footage
1:24.9	that's just been released. In addition to the 63 previously unreleased audio
1:29.9	tracks on the sign of the Times reissue. Fans now have the opportunity to watch the full
1:35.3	remastered, re-edited footage of Prince and his sign of the times band performing at his newly opened
1:42.2	complex, Paisley Park. It was on New Year's Eve, 1987.
1:47.0	It was the final time Prince would perform the Sign of the Times Tour Stage Show
1:52.0	before completely shifting his focus to love sexy and it included
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