Garbage Days Revisited #96: Prince & The Revolution - "Around The World In A Day" (1985)
"The smile on their faces, it speaks of profound inner peace/Ask where they'll going, they'll tell you nowhere/They've taken a lifetime lease" - Prince & The Revolution - Paisley Park It's weird to think that it's now over six years since we lost Prince. I'll be honest, it was only really in my twenties when I first discovered Purple Rain that I really started to get into the guy - when I first started getting into music coincided with him starting to go off the boil a bit in the early '90s. Although he was still capable of the odd killer at this point ( Money Don't Matter 2Nite is still a classic, Arms of Orion is an understated and underrated gentle ballad with Sheena Easton and Gett Off still makes me chuckle all these years later through how OTT it is), we also had to put up with the overblown likes of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World and Diamonds And Pearls and Prince-by-numbers stuff like Partyman and My Name Is Prince ...