RIP Prince Rogers Nelson
Sadly very little of Prince’s music is freely available online, but there is at least one glorious exception: this 1982 concert from Prince’s Controversy tour at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. The show was pre-1999 and Purple Rain, so it’s relatively intimate compared with later arena shows, but that doesn’t mean Prince holds back.
Here is a partial list of the wonders contained herein:
- A gospel opening to herald the coming of His Purpleness
- A pole dance (also from His Purpleness)
- Prince simulating sex with his guitar for four full minutes (starting around 24:40)
- Prince dancing and doing splits in heels (see around 35:00 for just one example)
- A Prince striptease (starting around 43:10)
- Hits including “I Wanna Be Your Lover,” “Uptown,” and “Dirty Mind.”
I can think of no better way to celebrate him than watching the whole thing.
john
From The Other Side of the Mirror 
Purple World
With guitar and hair full of curls.
Prince made this a purple world.
People are crying sounds sadful to the ears.
And it’s raining purple tears.
At the drop of a hat he was taken away.
There will be less happiness in the world today.
Up to heaven his soul did fly.
Where he is still singing and dancing above a purple sky.
Lamar Cole said this on April 29, 2016 at 5:09 am