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A special screening of Under The Cherry Moon was held on 20 November to mark the 35th anniversary of the film.
The sold-out celebration hosted at Paisley Park Studios began with a 30min Q&A panel session, with the Revolution’s Bobby Z and Dr Fink fielding the audience’s questions ahead of the 7:30pm screening. Jerome Benton, who played a supporting but key role in the film, was conspicuously absent from the event and later took to Twitter to clarify he had not been invited by the organisers.
Under The Cherry Moon was doubly Prince’s directional debut as well as Kristin Scott Thomas’ movie debut. The $30 per head ticket event was hosted in Paisley Park’s giant soundstage, where the panel took questions from the audience and gave their unique behind the scenes insight to the shooting and soundtrack of the 1986 movie. Three previously unreleased tracks were also previewed: Evolsidog, An Honest Man and Sometimes It Snows In April [Take 1] – the latter being recorded on 21 April 1985, added to the speculation of an impending release of the Parade Super Deluxe Edition – one of Prince’s four soundtrack albums still under license with Warner Brothers.
There is no substitute for the real thing, but Prince left a legacy of thirty-nine studio albums, released 100 singles, as well as created many albums for other artists. Prince is one of the most prolific and successful songwriters in history.
