Last night, for the first time in his forty year career, Prince performed a solo concert. And then he did it again. The Purple One held the first two shows off his Piano & A Microphone residency at his Paisley Park estate, and by all accounts it was what you would expect from an intimate evening at Prince’s house: candles, silk pajamas, and a very sultry soundtrack.

According to Rolling Stone, Prince performed in purple pajamas amid the glow of candles and smoke machine-generated fog. His setlists touched on all eras of his career, ordered somewhat chronically, and included at least one song from each of his first 10 albums. He kicked off his first show with his theme for Batman, and also covered Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You” and Ray Charles’ “Unchain My Heart”.



Throughout the two shows, Prince shared vary anecdotes from different points of his life. He recounted his early desires to follow the lead of his father and play piano, and how he almost flunked an audition to be keyboardist for eventual Revolution member Lisa Coleman.

You can read a full account of last night’s performances at the Star Tribune, and see the two setlists below. There’s also a photo of what the stage looked like prior to Prince taking the stage.

Early Show Setlist:

Batman

Who’s loving you

Baby

I Wanna Be Your Lover

Dirty Mind

Do Me Baby

Something In the Water

Free

A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell cover)

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Paul Robeson cover)

The Beautiful Ones

U’re Gonna C Me

How Come Your Don’t Call Me

Condition Of The Heart

Venus de Milo

Raspberry Beret

Paisley Park

Sometimes It Snows in April

Eye Love U But I Don’t Trust You Anymore

The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Unchain My Heart (Ray Charles cover)

Baltimore

Rock and Roll Love Affair

Starfish and Coffee

The Breakdown

Anna Stesia

Late Show Setlist:

Wow

The Love We Make

Look at Me, Look at U

1000 X’s and O’s

Call My Name

Purple Rain

The Dance

Te Amo Corazon / A Million Days

Nothing Compares 2 U

How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?

The Ladder

I Wanna Be Your Lover

Raspberry Beret

Starfish and Coffee

Sometimes it Snows in April

Dear Mr. Man

A Case of You (Joni Mitchell cover)

Kiss

Black Sweat

Free Urself