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Lovesexy Tour

1988/9

Welcome 2 the New Power Generation.

Despite being completely sold out (selling all 500,000 tickets for stadium sized shows and 32 dates in Europe and another 600,000 in the USA) the massive $2 million production cost of the Lovesexy Tour and its 90 crew found the tour barely breakeven.

The set design of the Lovesexy Tour was Prince‘s most extravagant. Its props included an actual T-Bird car, a basketball hoop and playground swing, and a hydraulic rising piano stage. The show was performed ‘in the round’ and split into two acts; the first comprised the raunchy songs, then following an intermission, the second act, spiritual and upbeat. Together the two acts depicted the journey of reaching heaven through hell – the triumph of light over the dark. The band line up is almost identical to Prince’s previous tour, Sign O’ The Times Tour. The final concert on the European leg of the Lovesexy Tour was filmed and the footage televised and later released on VHS.