The 1984 film entitled Purple Rain didn't even scratch the surface in terms of a viable biography. Young Purple wasn't built in a day let alone a couple of hours. The diminutive Minneapolis Maestro and his purple army conquered the musical world...YES! Flyte Tyme, Grand Central, Mind & Matter, The Family & The Lewis Project and the future, challenged his talent and durability. By the time he signed with Warner Brothers, Young Purple had it sorted. Multiple instruments, a silky falsetto and that dramatic visual aesthetic. The trappings of fame are no match for hard work, laser focus, blinding confidence and an unflinching resolve. He played "all" (Head, Uptown) the instruments. He "wrote" all the songs (Partyup, Do Me Baby, Let's Work, Purple Rain) and lead the Revolution from Hennepin County to the waiting world. The Alexander O'Neal dinner on Lake Street. The Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Snowstorm in Atlanta. The tour bus with four girlfriends in tow.The Morris Day fight. Brother A

Doubters, Haters, and Scalawags are on their grind. No one wants to get my man a space heater. However, now Los Angeles is calling and paying. Now that young Purple has secured the bag can he hold on. Money don't grow on trees.

Once Upon a Time in Minneapolis Young Purple assembled the Pre-Revolution Rebels featuring Dez Dickerson, Bobby Z, Gayle Chapman, Matt "Doctor" Fink, best buddy bruh and literal homeboy Andre Cymone. Los Angeles moguls are in game mode scrambling to move him on the chessboard for cash rewards. Can Young Purple be the centerpiece for a solo tour on his first time out? Manager Owen Husney warns of the pitfalls but Pepe Willie is like..."naw". Bob Marley's management team is thirsty to bring Young Purple to Chris Blackwell and the Island of misfit recording artists. Dick Clark, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Ray Parker Jr. & Earth Wind & Fire recognize the skills. A 21 year old kid from Minneapolis swimming with sharks in the City of Angels. A trip, a magical soundboard a legendary guitarist guardian and Underpants Pegasus? A secret plot to divert legendary tour manager "PJ" Perry Jones from management opps? Rick James? What does it all mean? A funk Mystery. Young Purple has visio

Young Purple jumps on the Fire It Up Tour only to find an inhospitable Superfreak. Rick James & The Stone City Band vs Young Purple & the fracturing Rebels. Every night there’s a funk face off on the battleground known as the Chitlin' Circuit of the late 1970's and early 1980's. Gayle Chapman is over it. André Cymone is in his feelings. Morris Day & future Prince, Young Purple are in the lab.. A funk Heist? A Dirty Mind? Bikini briefs? Who is Stevie Greenberg? What time is it? Who wrote Partyup? 2 tokens to Funkytown. Exit Gayle Chapman, enter Lisa Coleman.

"On the seventh day June 7, 1958 he made me...For You". Young Purple is taking his message global. "White black Puerto Rican everybody just a freakin". The Minneapolis Rebels have lost one. Lisa is on board and Wendy is back home proud but envious. More dragons await Young Purple. The Dirty Mind tour picks up Teena Marie and future Revolutionary Jill Jones. Is Matt "Doctor" Fink the New Lennon to Young Purple's McCartney? Wasn't that supposed to be Andre Cymone's role? Cain and Abel, Serena & Venus, Cyrus & Artaxerxes? Andre thinks there's Thieves In the Temple tonight. Young Purple thinks its Old friends for Sale. Morris is recruiting from Flyte Tyme. Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Andy Warhol are Stanning Young Purple hard. Mick needs an opening act for 1981. The seeds are being planted and the Purple Rain will come down down. Be sure it will take more than 17 days ya'll. So don't ask Doctor Everything'll-be-Alright how much of your time is left...ask him how much of your mind.

Young Purple steps into the LA Coliseum without André Cymone at a critical moment in funk history. The Rolling Stones have cultivated a fan base with a set definition of Rock. That definition may or may not include a lil androgynous black dude (is he black or white? Is he straight or gay?). A dude whose team is male female & mixed race. A dude whose music fuses elements of rock (Bambi), soul (do me baby), funk (head), and yes disco (I wanna be your lover). Young Purple and the future have come to the Coliseum. The Revolution is 1 Wendy short. Will they be welcomed? Morris Day? Flyte Tyme? Vanity 6? Welcome to the Revolution BrownMark. Bobby Z, Dr. Fink, Lisa, and a fifth of Jack Daniels? All shook. The return of Ray Parker Jr. Dez Dickerson is the new Andre Cymone?

YOUNG PURPLE HAS HIT A SNAG. What do you do when All The Critics Love You in New York, but You gotta Broken Heart Again after one Los Angeles gig has gone very very bad. The Morning Papers know It. The Rolling Stones fail has Young Purple down but never defeated. With Andre Cymone riding the New Wave and Gayle Chapman grinding out New York City office life. Time for a New Position cuz Something in the Water does not compute. Self Reflection, via Positivity and some of that new age Deconstruction are needed most right now. It's Gonna Be Lonely at Sunset Sound cuz Young Purple has to Do it All night and bang out The Beautiful One's for The Future. He has to be Possessed.

YOUNG PURPLE IS BECOMING PRINCE. The mystery the masks, the evasive clever joker prankster is coming out. Who is Jamie Starr. Is he a troll for the press? Is he a straw man for publishing? Is Jamie Starr a legit alter-ego? Not even the participants know for sure. Jamie Starr is the ersatz producer on some mega Prince-Projects like Vanity 6 and The Time. Complicating matters is the fact that Young Purple has inexplicably withdrawn from interviews. Young Purple is cloaking himself in secrecy, mystery, and enigmatic behaviour. Armed with the Linn-1 drum machine, that jacked strat, a home studio and the growing Purple Army. Young Purple, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson and two thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles in the form of the greatest songwriting duo EVER Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis head out on tour. The Hookers are evolving into Vanity 6 as Prince and Vanity look into the mirror that is each other. The Prince catalog is now bigger than ever.

Young Purple is touring with his Flyte Tyme former rivals and the artist soon to be known as Vanity on the Controversy tour. By the end there will be hurt feelings and a big bill for Morris Day. Prince is evolving and building a musical army. Prince is playing with fire as Vanity, Jill Jones, and Susan Moonsie begin to take their turns at studio life. Sunset Sound and Minneapolis itself may not be big enough for 3 Alpha women and a Music Legend. Jesse Johnson, Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Jellybean Johnson, Terry Lewis, Jerome Benton, and Monte Moir join the revolution in an EPIC food fight from which legends were made. Jill awaits in Los Angeles as Prince takes a break from the Minneapolis treadmill for a little downtime out west. Prince, However is never far from the work and as the 1981-82 Controversy Tour comes to a close 1999 looms on the horizon. The failure of the Rolling Stones brutal welcome will not soon be forgotten.

After 4 albums and only 1 major hit single in I wanna Be your Lover Young Purple has placed himself at the center of the pop world. His presence there however is tenuous. He's faced major high's and lows in his young career. It's 1982 and Prince wants to be a pop star. good thing because the record company needs a hit to start believing that Prince is more than a critical darling. Prince is seeking out inspiration in all the places. What happens when Prince and the Revolution stop at a Hotel with a flashing "FREE HBO" sign. The answer is funky...its funky...YOU NEED IT. With a stable of artists ready to claim their respective clout, you have to wonder how he's holding them together. Der Dickerson is asked to play lead guitar on one of Prince's biggest and groundbreaking hits Little red Corvette. You know Prince though right? You knew dude wasn't going to make it easy.

1982 was a Prince DIY in how to go pop, promote your stable of Warner Bros artists maintain at least 4 relationships while creating an album that slaps in the hood and on the Billboard charts. Prince, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Jellybeam, Jimmy Jam Jill Jones Terry Lewis Don Batts & Peggy MCCreary conspired to construct the most prolific period of Prince's career. The Vanity 6, What Time is it? and 1999 projects shall be revealed. Purple Rain bubbling under. How TH did Jellybean Johnson figure out that high hat in 777-9311. Brenda Bennett was asked to describe the 1999 triple threat tour. "FUN FUN FUN!" This was the album that spawned the movie Purple Rain. This was the tour that exiled Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to GOAT status. This was the beginning of the end of a beautiful friendship between Morris Day and Prince Rogers Nelson. A friendship that began with Prince mean mugging Morris from the shadows at Morris' Grand Central audition.

Prince and the Minneapolis minions take on the triple threat tour. William Blinn and a pen and a pad are taking notes and every catfight, ego trip and drunken stumble is being recorded for story potential. Something like Twitter but you do't get canceled. You get to be a Purple Rock god. Prince is bringing the hammer down on all who challenge him. Even his bestie Morris must bow to the awesome power of the Minneapolis genius. The powerful Ruffalo Cavallo Fargnoli music agents have been given an impossible task. Make me...Prince, a bonafide movie star or i won't sign the contract extending your management duties. Vanity is sniffing around Martin Scorcese's new project and Berry Gordy is making a Karate movie. The Baby Battle of the Bands that began in Minneapolis in 1976 is scaling up no longer is it Flyte Tyme vs Grand Central. Now the stakes is high and the The Time and The Revolution are at each others throats.

Prince has laid down the law...you shall not do stuff that aint for me! Jimmy and Terry are creepin in Atlanta. they would have gotten away with it too if not for a once in a generation southern snowstorm. In Atlanta. Jimmy and terry miss their flight time but end up founding Flyte Tyme.

Purple Rain is a real thing. Irrespective of the non believers, when Prince is ready to make a project go, you can bet on it. Purple Rain mostly recorded between Los Angeles at Sunset Sound and Prince's Kiowa trail home studio in Minneapolis, captured an artist in his creative prime making the most of every creative opportunity. By 1983 Prince had already shown all the hallmarks of genius that still describe his work. Purple Rain by all accounts was a work of pure fiction. This series is an attempt to take the viewer on a journey rife with the true drama that followed the Prince circus. Purple Rain the movie and the music happened quickly in the midst of the biggest ever shift in the Prince camp. Morris Day, Dez Dickerson, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Vanity, Susannah Melvoin all have a major part in this play. The outcomes & the Linn LM-1 drum computer will define the Prince sound for the near term.

Prince has shown that his musical genius can elevate him to the very top of billboards various charts but can he conquer Hollywood? Prince and the Purple Kingdom are doing dance classes and acting classes in pursuit of some very elite hardware. Prince has some doubters at camp but Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Jill Jones, and a young Paul Peterson have never been let down. When Prince speaks his dreams become reality.

Prince and his managers are going door to door. Who can help finance Purple rain? Prince has climbed a steep difficult mountain. Over 5 albums and 6 years he's built a respectable pop music career. I Wanna be your lover, Little Red Corvette, snd 1999 all sold millions. His music has been covered by Latoya Jackson (Private Joy), Stevie Nicks (Stand Back) and Cyndi Lauper (When you were mine). He's been tirelessly touring in the US and abroad. His former teammates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis are becoming renowned producers. His ultimatum to his managers at Cavallo Ruffalo, and Fargnoli has yielded a script entitled "Dreams" and sparked the interest of a young director called Albert Magnoli. Now, Prince has a new team of collaberators in a difficult industry.