Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain" (also called just Purple Rain) was a 1984 album by Prince and the Revolution. It was released by Warner Bros. Records and was Prince's sixth album. It sold 13 million units in the United States, earning a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America.
In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Purple Rain the 73rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 18.
As was often the case, Prince wrote all of the songs on the album. Some of the tracks had portions recorded live when Prince performed on August 3, 1983 at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis. This show was a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theater. It was also the first appearance in Prince's band "The Revolution" by Wendy Melvoin, his guitarist in the Purple Rain film and for a few years afterwards.
Track listing
- "Let's Go Crazy"
- "Take Me With U"
- "Beautiful Ones"
- "Computer Blue"
- "Darling Nikki"
- "When Doves Cry"
- "I Would Die 4 U"
- "Baby I'm a Star"
- "Purple Rain"