who influenced prince?

we always talk about artists who we believe are inspired by prince, but less so on who originally inspired his purpleness.

prince has pretty much created a recognisable sound of his own but there are elements of many artists of the 60s and 70s.

we don’t need an excuse to post about prince here at dirtymartini:

a post of prince duets, featuring beyonce, angie stone, madonna to name a few

a post of 2007/8 tracks that sounds some suspiciously like prince

the perfect prince set list, inspired by the o2 tour

some more tracks that bit off a huge chunk of purple greatness

recent and not so recent examples of how a little purple goes a long way

some rare prince tracks that everyone should own

the many artists who owe some success to prince

my first ever post was a homage to the vault of unreleased prince tracks

 

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chaka khan – sweet thing

curtis mayfield – tripping out

david bowie – life on mars

delfonics – what’s your sign

earth wind and fire – would you mind

george clinton – atomic dog

graham central station – mirror

james brown – get up offa that thing

jimi hendrix – foxy lady

joni mitchell – big yellow taxi

mavis staples – chocolate city

ohio players – sweet sticky thing

rick james – mary jane

santana – evil ways

sly and the family stone – if it were left up to me