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Prince
Artist Icon Dirty Mind (1980)
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"Dirty Mind" ist das dritte Studioalbum von Prince. Es erschien am 8. Oktober 1980 bei dem Label Warner Bros. Records und enthält acht Songs, darunter die drei Singles "Uptown", "Dirty Mind" und "Do It All Night". Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 30 Minuten und 18 Sekunden. Damit ist "Dirty Mind" das kürzeste aller Prince-Alben. Das Albumcover gestaltete der Fotograf Allen Beaulieu.
Die Albumaufnahmen fanden im Mai und Juni 1980 in Orono und Los Angeles statt. "Dirty Mind" ist das erste Album von Prince, bei dem Bandmitglieder - hier die Keyboarder Dr. Fink und Lisa Coleman - bei den Aufnahmen mitwirkten. Die Liedtexte des Albums galten damals bei vielen als anzüglich und obszön.
"Dirty Mind" erreichte in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts Platz 45 und wurde in den USA etwa eine Million Mal verkauft. Damit erlangte es Gold-Status, war aber weniger erfolgreich als das Vorgängeralbum "Prince". In Deutschland wurde das Album 100.000 Mal verkauft und erreichte nicht die deutschen Album-Charts. Im Jahr 2009 wählte das US-Magazin Rolling Stone "Dirty Mind" auf Platz 206 der 500 besten Alben aller Zeiten.
Die Tournee zu "Dirty Mind" war die erste, bei der Prince als Headliner spielte. Außerdem war er mit der Tournee das erste Mal in Europa unterwegs.
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Dirty Mind was written immediately in the wake of Prince’s stint as the support act for Rick James’s Fire It Up Tour. It was in fact recorded in Prince’s basement at home in Lake Minnetonka, in the spring of 1980.

Unlike his first two albums, Prince is accompanied with fellow band members providing vocals and instrumentation on the title track and Head, and writing credits are shared on the title track and Party up. Dirty Mind sold 500,000 copies (receiving the RIAA’s Gold rating) and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard charts and viewed as a disappointment to Warner Brothers. In the UK the album failed to chart, it eventually saw its chart debut in 2016 in the week following Prince’s death, it reached position 61. It was critically acclaimed and since listed by Rolling Stone Magazine 204th in their top 500 albums of all time. For the cover photo the backdrop to the album features an upturned spring bed. The sexual overtones of Dirty Mind caused great division in the band and critics alike, it was racy because Prince was single at the time and wanting female company. The lyrics were not to everyone’s taste at the time.


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