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"Diamonds And Pearls" ist das 13. Studioalbum von Prince und das erste Album mit seiner Begleitband "The New Power Generation". Es erschien am 1. Oktober 1991 bei dem Label Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records und enthält 13 Songs, darunter die sechs Singles "Gett Off", "Cream", "Insatiable", "Diamonds And Pearls", "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" und "Thunder". Die Laufzeit des Albums beträgt 65 Minuten und 48 Sekunden. Das Albumcover gestalteten Jeff Gold und Tom Recchion. Die Booklet-Vorderseite von "Diamonds And Pearls" erschien nicht nur als normales Albumcover, sondern auch als Hologramm.
Die Albumaufnahmen fanden zwischen Ende Dezember 1989 und dem 10. Mai 1991 in London, Tokio, Hollywood, und den Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen statt. Mit "Diamonds And Pearls" wollte sich Prince ein härteres und schwärzeres Image zulegen. So benutzte er in Anlehnung an Gangsta-Rapper zum Singen häufig ein Mikrofon, das wie eine Schusswaffe geformt war. Das Album ist im Vergleich zu seinen bisherigen Alben stark durch die Musikrichtungen Rap und Hip-Hop geprägt. Den Sprechgesang übernimmt meistens Bandmitglied Tony M., was sowohl bei Kritikern als auch Fans auf unterschiedliche Reaktionen stieß.
Zu fast allen Songs des Albums existieren Videoclips, die am 6. Oktober 1992 als "Diamonds And Pearls Video Collection" auf VHS und Laserdisc, und am 22. August 2006 auf DVD veröffentlicht wurden.
Das Album war in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts insgesamt 46 Wochen vertreten und erreichte als höchste Platzierung Platz drei. Es wurde in den USA knapp 3 Million Mal verkauft und erlangte dadurch doppelt Platin-Status. In Deutschland wurde das Album 520.000 Mal verkauft und erreichte Platz acht der deutschen Album-Charts, wodurch es Platin-Status errang.
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Diamonds And Pearls was the first album Prince jointly credited to The New Power Generation.

Work on the album began during the Nude Tour whose line up, with the exception of Matt Fink and Miko Weaver, would remain with Prince and form the New Power Generation. The band received their first public performance at the China Club in Hollywood on 3 June 1991. For the first time since the Revolution, all band members had creative input to the creation of Diamonds And Pearls. Although the principal theme embraces rap, every song on the album takes a different musical genre (soul, funk, pop, hip-hop), for which critics at the time felt it a disappointment as it had not set new ground in those genres. Such is the expectation of the benchmark in Prince’s music. It tackles some serious themes of the day: such as the Gulf War and poverty.

The album cover is also notable in that it was released as two separate with different covers: one featuring the first mass-produced hologram (the work of Sharon McCormack) in printing history. The single Thunder was released only in the UK as part of the promotion of the tour. The last minute inclusion of the track Gett Off replaced Horny Pony and some copies of the album contain this in the original track list. The dialogue, which ends in a fight at the end of the song Jughead is reputedly about Prince’s former manager, Steve Fargnoli.

Rapper Tony M. first met Prince when as an extra for the Purple Rain movie. After Rosie Gaines left the band immediately after the Diamonds And Pearls Tour in 1992, Prince vowed never to duet the title track Diamonds And Pearls with any other singer – holding true to his promise ever since. Diamonds And Pearls peaked at number 3 on the Billboard charts and sold over 2 million copies and is certified double Platinum by the RIAA.


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