In 1983, Prince was still a year away from the release of his Grammy- and Academy Award-winning hit, Purple Rain. However, his album1999 finally placed him on the charts, and he was enjoying the success. Thanks to one of its most popular tracks, Stevie Nicks was determined to get in touch with him.
"Me and my husband [Kim Anderson] were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara on our honeymoon when Little Red Corvette came on the radio and I started humming a new melody to it," Nicks previously told Classic Rock.
After using the melody to create Stand Back, she called Prince. After explaining that she'd used his song to make hers, she asked him to play the synthesizer on it like he did on LittleRed Corvette. He agreed, and it sparked an association that would affect future hits for both of them. But even Nicks was shocked when Prince asked her to write lyrics for one of his songs a short time later.
“It was Purple Rain! I’ve still got the cassette demo," she said. "It was the whole instrumental track and every now and again Prince would come in singing, ‘Can’t get over that feeling,' or something like that.”
“It was so epic!" Nicks exclaimed. "So off-the-scale. I told him, ‘Prince, I’m sorry, but I’ve listened to this a hundred times and I don’t know where to start.' It felt like a movie. It became a movie. It became his signature song too, and I always feel like there's a little bit of me in it."
Nicks also felt like there could've been another reason he was keen to have her write the lyrics to his song. "The thing is, I think Prince would have liked a romance," she revealed. "But I didn’t want that. If that had happened, we wouldn’t have had a musical relationship.”
Despite her disinterest in him romantically, they continued their friendship. And just as Little Red Corvette inspired Stand Back, one of her songs inspired him.
“He was inspired by Edge of Seventeen to write When Doves Cry," she told the AP News in 2020. "That’s really when he and I started to sort of be friends. From that moment onward at the very end of Edge of Seventeen I go, ‘I know what it sounds like, I know what it sounds like, I know what it sounds like when doves cry. It sounds like you.’”
Hence then, the article about stevie nicks once revealed she almost wrote lyrics for prince s purple rain was published today ( ) and is available on Parade ( Saudi Arabia ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Stevie Nicks Once Revealed She Almost Wrote Lyrics For Prince's 'Purple Rain' )
Also on site :
- ’Beverly Hills, 90210’s Jason Priestley Shares Bold Callout After ‘Worst’ Travel Experience
- UN renews Sudan ceasefire appeal over ‘unimaginable suffering’ of civilians
- Central African Republic election: Who’s running and what’s at stake?