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Graffiti Bridge is the twelfth studio album by Prince and the soundtrack to the 1990 film Graffiti Bridge.
The album was much better received in sales than the film, reaching #6 in the US and #1 in the UK. Nearly every song on the record was written by Prince despite the handful of artists performing, including Tevin Campbell, Mavis Staples and The Time. The album produced the hit singles "Thieves in the Temple" and "New Power Generation", an anthem in two parts celebrating Prince's newly created backing band, The New Power Generation. The band would get its first official outing on Prince's next album, Diamonds and Pearls. Though its 17 tracks constituted a double album, the significance of this was obscured by the rising popularity of the CD format.
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The concept for Graffiti Bridge began many years prior, when Prince planned to write a Broadway musical in which would feature both himself and Madonna in the lead roles. This project evolved into a movie sequel to 1984’s Purple Rain
All songs on the Graffiti Bridge album, which is the soundtrack to accompany the Graffiti Bridge movie were reworked versions of songs of much older and unreleased songs previously written by Prince throughout the 1980s. The oldest track on the album is Tick, Tick, Bang which he wrote in 1981 for the Vanity 6 project. The 1989 configuration of the album was named Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic and contained songs written around the Lovesexy period and also the creative influences to the succeeding album Batman. Graffiti Bridge fared better in the UK than in the US, holding the number 1 position in the charts for some five weeks. It is certified Gold by the RIAA. Graffiti Bridge was not officially supported by the Nude Tour, which was essentially a greatest hits tour, had in fact almost concluded by the time of the release of the album and only supported it during the final shows of the tour.
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