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Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection Warner Music Vision • 1992

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Gett Off [video maxi single]

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Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection

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Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection is the promotional videos collection of Prince and the New Power Generation’s first album Diamonds And Pearls. It therefore contains interviews with NPG band members – which Prince filmed himself. Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection also includes concert footage of four songs performed during the Diamonds And Pearls Tour, captured at Earls Court Arena in London in June 1992 and during the Australia leg of April and May 1992.

Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection was released on VHS home video on 6 October 1991, when it peaked on Billboard’s Top Video Sales chart at number 22. It was reissued in DVD format on 25 September 2006. The cover artwork of the video collection is designed by Tom Recchion and Laurie Griffin. The video for Willing And Able is footage of a live version of the track performed in Studio C at Paisley Park, it features the full band NPG and The Steeles on backing vocals filmed in the same sessions as Money Don’t Matter 2 Night and the live sequences for Call The Law, 26 January 1992 by director Sotera Tschetter.

Two versions of the video Money Don’t Matter 2 Nite were filmed; the initial version was directed by Spike Lee but contained no footage of Prince and was considered too political to air on MTV, so additional scenes were interspersed with Prince’s performance of the song in Studio C under the direction of Tschetter. The versions were edited to form one video. Both versions aired back-to-back on MTV on 14 April 1992.

Three lavish promos were filmed for the album’s main singles. The first was for the album’s lead single Gett Off, Prince most lavish production to date, was shot at Paisley Park Studios in the summer of 1991 and was issued under its own release as a video maxi-single. Its director Randee St. Nicholas appears in the video Insatiable, which she also directs, cameos as the photographer. The video for the title track Diamonds And Pearls was next and was shot at City Hall in LA on 31 August 1991, the day Prince originally planned to perform his concert at Blenheim Palace in the UK but had been cancelled owing to a debacle with the promoter. Cream followed one week later, filmed at Los Angeles grand Union Station.

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The videos

Gett Off

Location: Paisley Park Studios
Date: July 1991
Director: Randee St. Nicholas
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; Lori Werner and Robia LaMorte

Cream

Location: Union Station, Los Angeles
Date: September 1991
Director: Rebecca Blake
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; Lori Werner and Robia LaMorte

Diamonds And Pearls

Location: Los Angeles City Hall
Date: August 1991
Director: Rebecca Blake
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; Lori Werner and Robia LaMorte

Call The Law

Location: Paisley Park Studios and North Commons Park, Minneapolis
Date: January 1992
Director: Scott McCullough (party) and Sotera Tschetter (performance)
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; The Steeles

Willing And Able

Location: Paisley Park Studios
Date: January 1992
Director: Sotera Tschetter
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; The Steeles

Insatiable

Location: Hollywood Centre Studio, Los Angeles
Date: Late 1991
Director: Randee St. Nicholas
Cast: Prince and Randee St. Nicholas

Strollin’

Location: Griffith Park, Los Angeles and Lake Harriet Bandshell Park, Minneapolis
Date: May 1992
Directors: Scott McCullough and Lori Werner
Cast: Lori Werner, Robia LaMorte, Levi Seacer and Damon Dickson

Money Don’t Matter 2 Night

Location: Paisley Park Studios
Date: Late 1991
Directors: Spike Lee (African-American family) and Sotera Tschetter (performance)
Cast: Prince and the New Power Generation; The Steeles

Live concert footage

Thunder

Sydney Entertainment Centre
April 1992

Dr. Feelgood

Flinders Park Tennis Centre, Melbourne
18 April 1992

Jughead / Live 4 Love

Earls Court Arena, London
24 June 1992

Performers

Vocals/Guitar: Prince
Drums: Michael Bland
Rhythm Guitar: Levi Seacer Jr.
Keyboards: Tommy Barbarella
Bass Guitar: Sonny Thompson
Vox/Purpleaxxe: Rosie Gaines
Raps: Tony Mosley
Vocals: Damon Dickson
Percussion: Kirk Johnson
Dance: Lori Elle Werner “Diamond”; Robia LaMorte “Pearl”

Tracklist

Introduction (1:24)
Thunder [Live] (1:32) ¹
Gett Off (5:32)
Cream (10:31)
Diamonds And Pearls (5:31)
Dr. Feelgood [Live] [inc. interview with Rosie Gaines and Tony M.] (2:03) ^{1 & 2}
Call The Law [inc. interview with Damon D] (5:35)
Willing And Able [inc. interview with Kirky J.] (5:07)
Jughead [Live] [inc. interview with Tommy Barbarella] (3:11) ¹
Insatiable [inc. interview with Levi Seacer Jr.] (6:24)
Strollin' [inc. interview with Michael B.] (1:57)
Money Don't Matter 2 Night [inc. interview with Sonny T.] (6:32)
Live 4 Love [Live] (7:23) ¹

¹ Live concert footage from the Diamonds And Pearls Tour.
² Written by Aretha Franklin and Ted White as Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business).

Data

Director

Rob Borm

Released

6 October 1992

Reissued

27 October 2023 as Diamonds And Pearls Super Deluxe Edition

Running Time

58 minutes

Orig. Format

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