xfm 25 presents classic albums from the year 1986
prince and the revolution
parade - music from the motion picture, 'under the cherry moon'
prince and the revolution
parade - music from the motion picture, 'under the cherry moon'
“Parade” was Prince’s 1986 follow-up to “Around the World in a Day” and the soundtrack to his second film “Under the Cherry Moon”. The album revealed a complex new jazz influenced sound, featuring lush orchestral arrangements (from Clare Fischer) and a very European flavour.
“Parade” featured the number one single, "Kiss" – along with key tracks; “Girls and Boys”, “Anotherlover”, and “Sometimes it Snows in April”. It was also the final album that Prince released with the Revolution.
The series is entitled "25" takes a look back at classic albums released in 1986. We started off the series in January with Metallica's "Master Of Puppets", followed in Feb with Public Image Ltd's "Album", at the end of March the third documentary, is going out, about Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration", and we kick off our documentary about "Parade" from Prince And The Revolution followed by playback of the entire album.
We've conducted a 40 minute interview with Dr Fink - Revolution member legend and all around nice guy, was more than happy to go into detail and answer all the questions we asked. Obviously since the documentary is only an hour long, it'll be edited down to the most relevant stuff regarding the album, but we should be able to upload the entire unedited interview online after the documentary goes out at the end of April.
We've also got Bobby Friction (BBC R1/Asian Network DJ and huge fan) giving his views on the album, we have Bill Oddie talking about their favorite tracks on the album and the story of "Kiss" being created (talking about Mazarati and David Z), Brett Anderson from the band Suede went out of his way to talk about the album for us as he's a huge fan, and we'll hopefully be conducting an interview with Clare Fischer regarding his input on the album..... we touched on some other stuff that happened in 1986 such as Manic Monday being a hit (and credited to Christopher Tracy)...
All in all, this will be of interest to hardcore Prince fans, music lovers, and students as well as casual listeners who might not be too familiar with this classic album.
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