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(Accounts differ, some of them wildly, but it seems to have been one track in particular, ‘Jack U Off’, that triggered most of the derision and homophobic barracking.) 1 The rest of the band were game to push on, but Prince fled home to Minneapolis in a funk.
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On the first night, 9 October, Prince and his band, the Revolution, barely made it through four songs before getting booed offstage. In the end, swayed by his hypo-sharp management team, Prince took the gig.
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But he had his own new album to plug (called, with extrasensory irony, Controversy) and owed quite a lot of money – and gratitude – to his label, Warner Brothers: the sales of his previous three albums hadn’t met expectations, and there was a feeling that Controversy was make or break. Men played guitars and slept with women, who were submissive and did what they were told.’ In contrast, very little about Prince and what he might do next seemed at all ‘neatly defined’. As Jason Draper puts it in Prince: Life and Times, ‘the average Rolling Stones fan still rode the coat-tails of 1970s rock ’n’ roll, about which everything was neatly defined. Still, there was a vague sense that frisky young Prince – the latest reincarnation of the R’n’B acts the Stones venerated and in some sense owed their existence to – was being used as a heart-starter, to angry up the old (thirtysomething) troupers’ blood. The Stones had a new album ( Tattoo You) to plug the tour would eventually bring in $50 million in ticket sales, the largest US gross that year. His first impulse was to turn the gig down flat. I n autumn 1981, hot new act Prince was offered two nights at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum supporting the Rolling Stones. It is the first or Christian name that counts, that is what makes one be as they are. To create in myself a nation with its own politics, parties and revolutions, and to be all of it, everything, to be God in the real pantheism of this people-I. Walter Benjamin, ‘On the Image of Proust’ Assiduously and without much constraint, he conditioned his personality, making it as impenetrable and resourceful, as submissive and difficult, as it had to be for the sake of his mission.