Episode notes

Gabrielle Civil

No single artist has come up on this show more than The Purple One and it’s not hard to see why. His enormous discography is filled to the brim with timeless records and undeniable fire.

Parade came at an interesting time in Prince’s career; it would be the last album he recorded with The Revolution and was, ostensibly, the soundtrack to Prince’s film Under the Cherry Moon, a critical and commercial flop. Parade endured and became one of his best selling albums, garnering near universal praise and launched his already successful career into the stratosphere.

Writer and artist Gabrielle Civil joins Oliver and guest co-host Ernest Hardy in the studio to discuss Under the Cherry Moon, the chances Prince took with the production of Parade, and the role of women in his world.

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Show Tracklisting (all songs from Parade unless indicated otherwise)

Do U Lie

Life Can Be So Nice

Venus De Milo

Christopher Tracy’s Parade

I Wonder U

Under the Cherry Moon

Girls & Boys

I Wonder U

Prince: Old Friends 4 Sale

Sometimes It Snows in April

Meshell Ndegeocello: Sometimes It Snows in April

Sometimes It Snows in April

Life Can Be So Nice

Anotherloverholenyohead

Kiss

Prince: When Doves Cry

I Wonder U

Under the Cherry Moon

Kiss

Anotherloverholenyohead

Christopher Tracy’s Parade

New Position

Sometimes It Snows in April

Stevie Wonder: Send One Your Love

Aretha Franklin: Something He Can Feel

Camille: 1,2,3

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find there.

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