Prince on the custom motorcycle featured in Purple Rain. Wendy Melvoin, guitarist for Prince’s genre-bending band The Revolution, remembers one of their most iconic songs started with an idea ...

After Prince’s death, “Purple Rain” had a return run in movie theaters. In 2019, the film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry alongside 24 others for its ...

That plot point underlines one of many ways that Prince assigns himself a childlike bearing throughout the movie. Though he was in his mid-twenties when he made the film, his character is referred ...

Prince was a legendary musician whose visions extended beyond music, encompassing films, including one that is being ...

The playwright also saw the Purple Rain movie as very much in the stage musical tradition. “He wrote the Apollonia 6 songs and Dez Dickerson’s song,” he says.

Prince made his acting debut as the Kid in 'Purple Rain.' The film’s success was front-page news for THR on Aug. 2, 1984, after it beat out Ghostbusters as the top-grossing title of the prior ...

And in honor of Purple Rain’s 40th anniversary, let’s throw it back to some of my other all-time favorite soundtracks: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Let’s kick it off with the smash “Saturday ...

The movie hit theaters 40 years ago, breaking barriers in the music world while signaling the ascendancy of Prince as a pop music superstar. Putting Purple Rain on the silver screen ...

After Prince’s death, “Purple Rain” had a return run in movie theaters. In 2019, the film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry alongside 24 others for its ...

Putting Purple Rain on the silver screen Filmed around the band’s Minneapolis hometown, Purple Rain had a simple story. Prince’s character — known only as The Kid – is rocked by his dad ...