Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Songwriter: Wendy Melvoin Prince

Producer: Prince

[Spoken Intro]
Bobby? Everybody ready? Ok, um, listen, starting with the piano we're going to tune up... and we’re gonna slowly, surely, within... all within a minute we wanna get quiet and then we're gonna build and build and build until we're just making  loud, fast noise. OK? Then I’m gonna go "shhh" and you just bring it down... we're all just going to wind down real quickly and Lisa will start... OK, starting with piano and just trip... there are no mistakes, this is the fun track, this. It might not be the one we keep, but play anything you want... go with it. Whenever you want Lisa...

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Late at night, when the world is sleeping
You are frightened, 'cause the power's creeping
In your room is something you're afraid of
Life or doom is what this feeling's made of

[Chorus]
Power fantastic
Is in your life at last and
You're a little apprehensive
'Cause what it is, is what you want and need, oh

[Verse 2]
Minor G is the chord of pleasure
It will be played eleven measures
You will see fire, but you’re as cool as ice
You’re a liar if you say this isn't nice

[Chorus]
Power fantastic
Is in your life at last
You’re a little apprehensive
Is what it is, is what you want and need

[Spoken]
Bridge

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Interlude]
Power, oooh

[Flute Solo]

[Spoken]
Keep soloing
Change

[Chorus]
Power fantastic
Is in your life at last and
You're a little apprehensive
'Cause what it is, is what you want and need

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh
Sugar, sugar
Ending
Cool, come in

An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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