Fact #160645
When:
Short story:
Prince releases a new double album, Sign O' The Times.
Full article:
Lisa Coleman (Keyboardist, Wendy and Lisa) : He had started to distance himself from the music, and told us he needed to go back to making music the way he used to make it. We had actually recorded a lot of stuff for Sign ‘O’ The Times, but he started from scratch, and none of it made it to the album.
Susan Rogers (engineer) : Prince hired a guy named Frank Demedi to install one of his state-of-the-art consoles in Paisley Park, and it was taking forever. But, one night, Prince had dreamt a song, which turned out to be The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, and insisted on recording it. As we were laying it down, though, I noticed there was something wrong with the console. There was no high end at all, but I figured I'd fix it in the mix. But Prince often records and mixes in the same session, and that's what we did this night. Turned out one half of the console wasn't working, but when I played it back to him, he loved it. It's a total mistake if you listen to it, but he likes good mistakes if they work.
Susan Rogers : Sheena (Easton) came into the studio unannounced one day 'cos she wanted Prince to produce her next album. He didn't feel like socialising, though. U Got The Look had gone through a million changes, and he was really struggling with it. He felt this was an important single for him. It was originally a mid-tempo thing, but he had sped it up at the last minute and asked her to sing on it. I think she was a little taken aback by the sexual nature of it first, but he convinced her to get into it, and it worked perfectly.
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Susan Rogers (engineer) : Prince hired a guy named Frank Demedi to install one of his state-of-the-art consoles in Paisley Park, and it was taking forever. But, one night, Prince had dreamt a song, which turned out to be The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, and insisted on recording it. As we were laying it down, though, I noticed there was something wrong with the console. There was no high end at all, but I figured I'd fix it in the mix. But Prince often records and mixes in the same session, and that's what we did this night. Turned out one half of the console wasn't working, but when I played it back to him, he loved it. It's a total mistake if you listen to it, but he likes good mistakes if they work.
Susan Rogers : Sheena (Easton) came into the studio unannounced one day 'cos she wanted Prince to produce her next album. He didn't feel like socialising, though. U Got The Look had gone through a million changes, and he was really struggling with it. He felt this was an important single for him. It was originally a mid-tempo thing, but he had sped it up at the last minute and asked her to sing on it. I think she was a little taken aback by the sexual nature of it first, but he convinced her to get into it, and it worked perfectly.
(Source : not known)