2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Prince’s endlessly iconic sixth album and quasi-autobiographical music film. To celebrate this landmark for a project that is often hailed as one of the ...

The cover of "Prince's Purple Rain" by Andrea Swensson. (Courtesy Motorbooks/Quarto) Minneapolis music writer Andrea Swensson speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about her book commemorating the 40th ...

The list-loving Rolling Stone cultural arbiters love them some "Purple Rain," declaring that the 1984 Prince project is the greatest movie soundtrack album ever. In a list of the 101 Greatest ...

Prince’s “Purple Rain” becomes a bestseller on the U.K.'s music charts after being featured in a recent episode of Strictly Come Dancing, turning the decades-old cut into a smash. American Rock, Funk, ...

After your masterplan succeeds and so many of your dreams come true… then what? That is a question a 26-year-old Prince may well have been asking himself after “Purple Rain” transformed him into a ...