Purp

June 7, 1958
Prince is born!

April 1978
Prince releases his first album
(he plays all 27 instruments!)

October 9, 1981
Prince is booed off stage while opening for the Rolling Stones
(he was wearing a trench coat and bikini briefs)


July 27, 1984
Purple Rain is released
(soundtrack sells more than 13 million copies in the US)

March 25, 1985
Prince wins Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain at the 57th Annual Academy Awards

June 1985
Tipper Core co-founds the Parents Music Resource Center after buying Purple Rain for her 11-year-old daughter
(who would by that album for an 11-year-old?!)

June 20,1989
Prince composes and performs every song on the soundtrack to Tim Burton's Batman


Semptember 1992
Prince signs a $100 million, six-album deal with Warner Bro.

June 1993
Prince changes his name to a symbol

March 15, 2001
Prince is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


March 21, 2006
Prince debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 3121

December 2004
Pollstar names Princes' Musicology Tour the highest-grossing tour in America
($87.4 million profit!)

February 4, 2007
Prince performs at the Super Bowl
(my guitar is my dick and my dick is my guitar!)