” Prince, of course, would have his revenge. I always wondered if Michael intentionally brought Prince up to put him in that position just to say, ‘Hey, you think you’re on my a–? Well follow this, motherf-–. He played a few licks, did some dancing and knocked over a prop by accident. He went to the guitar first, but he fumbles with that because it was left-handed. “And of course Prince didn’t really know what to do either. “I don’t think Prince realized Michael was going to be there,” Leeds told me back in 2010. Prince, rocking a very Princely black-and-gold number, hilariously approached the stage on the back of his infamous bodyguard Big Chick.
And so Brown invited the rising talent to show off some moves. Jackson then whispered in Brown’s ear that Prince was in the house. And then Jackson did a spin for the ages. He shuffled his feet James Brown-style in an almost inhuman rhythm. Pepper’s-esque military jacket, was a jaw-dropping natural. Michael Jackson, immaculate in sunglasses and a blue Sgt. The sweat-drenched Godfather of Soul called out the biggest recording star on the planet to join him onstage. What happened next was downright surreal. On that August evening Prince was at Los Angeles’ Beverly Theater.
The singer’s brilliant synth-rock classic “Little Red Corvette” was all over MTV and radio when MTV and radio meant everything, and platinum Prince was on the cusp of superstardom. Prince was still basking in the glow of his 1982 breakthrough album 1999. Alan Leeds, the Purple One’s one-time road manager and president of Paisley Park Records, recalls the exact moment Prince Rogers Nelson made up his mind to become the greatest live performer in the history of modern music.
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