{"id":975,"date":"2014-05-01T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:56:36","slug":"top-ten-facts-prince-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/top-ten-facts-prince-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Facts on the Prince of Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As longtime fans of the talented purple Prince, we\u2019re excited to report that the musician announced a new, full-length album, tentatively titled Plectrum Electrum, AND Purple Rain will be reissued in a deluxe edition just in time for it\u2019s 30th birthday later this summer!<\/p>\n

Although Prince hasn\u2019t given a definitive answer, his love of all things purple stretches almost as far as ours \u2013 even landing him into some hot water in 2006 over purple additions to an expensive rental house. Over the years, fans have guessed that it\u2019s a favorite because of purple\u2019s association with royalty and\/or because of his devotion to the Minnesota Vikings. We think it\u2019s probably a little more simple \u2013 purple is just an amazing color.<\/p>\n

In honor of the Purple One returning to the spotlight, read on for ten little known facts on the artist (now re-known) as Prince:<\/p>\n

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      1. Prince loves ping pong and famously played a game with Jimmy Fallon.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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          2. As a Jehovah\u2019s Witness, he refuses to sing his own songs that celebrate sex.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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              3. Prince played electric guitar on Madonna\u2019s \u201cLike a Prayer.\u201d<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                  4. He wrote his first song, \u201cFunk Machine\u201d at the age of 7.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                      5. Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBad\u201d was supposed to be a duet with Prince, but Prince refused because of the song\u2019s opening line, \u201cYour butt is mine.\u201d<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                          6. He developed a feminine alter ego, Camille.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                              7. He met his wife, Mayte Garcia, via a videotape when she was 16 years old. After a long courtship, they married on Valentine\u2019s Day in 1996.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                                  8. Prince is a big fan of New Girl and made an appearance in the \u201cPrince\u201d episode.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                                      9. Prince is his real name\u2014he was named after his father\u2019s jazz band The Prince Rogers Trio.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                                            10. The symbol, which he infamously used as his name, has it\u2019s own name\u2014\u201cLove Symbol #2\u201d. When the copyright expired in 1997, he announced his return to his given name, Prince.<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

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                                            Did we miss any obscure facts? Favorite Prince stories?<\/p>\n

                                            Thanks very much to the following sources \u2013 Mental Floss, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, People and Wikipedia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

                                            As longtime fans of the talented purple Prince, we\u2019re excited to report that the musician announced a new, full-length album, tentatively titled Plectrum Electrum, AND Purple Rain will be reissued in a deluxe edition just in time for it\u2019s 30th birthday later this summer!<\/p>\n

                                            Although Prince hasn\u2019t given a definitive answer, his love of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[36,35,15,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}