Wendy and Lisa

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Wendy and Lisa recorded some stone cold classics with Prince's band The Revolution: Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Kiss, When Doves Cry and more. These days, they're known for their work composing scores for TV and movies: Heroes, Dangerous Minds, Crossing Jordan, and Nurse Jackie. Wendy and Lisa talk with us about their 40-plus year partnership, and their Emmy award-winning work as composers. And of course, what it was like to collaborate with Prince, and work on some of his most iconic records.

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0:00.0	I'm Rachel Martin, host of Wildcard from NPR.
0:02.7	I've spent years interviewing all kinds of people,
0:05.4	and I've realized there are ideas that we all think about,
0:09.5	but don't talk about very much.
0:11.8	So I made a shortcut, a deck of cards with questions that anyone can answer,
0:16.4	questions that go deep into the experiences that shape us.
0:20.0	Listen to the Wildcard podcast only from NPR.
0:24.9	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.9	Hey!
0:37.2	Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:46.8	Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman were born in the 60s.
0:50.1	They grew up here in Los Angeles, where we make bullseye.
0:53.7	Wendy's father, Mike Melvoin, was a session musician, mainly on piano in Oregon.
0:59.4	Lisa's father, Gary, was also a session musician.
1:02.6	He played percussion.
1:03.9	They were members of the legendary wrecking crew.
1:07.3	They played on everything.
1:10.2	Wendy and Lisa went to each other's birthday parties,
1:13.0	played catch, that kind of thing. In their early 20s, the two started dating. Also around that time,
1:21.2	Lisa started playing keys and singing with Prince. You can hear her work on Prince's breakthrough album, Dirty Mind.
1:34.7	Not long after that, Wendy joined on guitar.
1:42.3	Soon they were integral members of Prince's band The Revolution.
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