Purple Medley

Warner Bros. Records

Prince: 1958–1993. May He Rest In Peace.

Purple Medley is a remix track and montage of Prince‘s popular hits, mixed into this sequence: Batdance, When Doves Cry, Kiss, Erotic City, Darling Nikki, 1999, Baby I’m A Star, Diamonds and Pearls, Purple Rain and Let’s Go Crazy.

The full 11 minute version then continues with Sexy Dancer, Let’s Work, Irresistible Bitch, Sexy M.F., I Wanna Be Your Lover, Alphabet St., Thieves in the Temple, 777-9311, A Love Bizarre, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, Cream and closes with Peach. The edited version (track #1) was played at the start of the concerts during The Ultimate Live Experience tour, when Prince was under the name of The Artist Formally Known As Prince (Prince love symbol). Purple Medley was also commercially available in record shops during the run, as a ‘Tour Souvenir’, released by Warner Brothers. That tour did not visit the US and therefore the song performed poorly there, reaching only position 84 in the Billboard charts – faring better in the UK where the tour was performed, it charted there at number 33.

The third track on the single is a remix medley by Prince’s DJ, Kirk Johnson. Although this track is called Kirky J’s B-Side Remix, only one of those songs featured was actually a B-side¹. Those songs are mixed in this order: Pop Life, Housequake, When Doves Cry, Shockadelica¹, Head and The Continental.

Data

Producer

Prince

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Distribution

Warner Bros. Records

Cover/Design

Steve Parke

Released

25 years, 11 months ago on 6 March 1995

Running Time

21:14

US Chart Peak

84

UK Chart Peak

33

Orig. Formats

Tracklist

1. Purple Medley [Edit] (3:14)
2. Purple Medley (11:00)
3. Kirk J's B-Sides Remix (7:00)

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