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Prince
Artist Icon One Nite Alone… Live! (2002)
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Genre Icon Funk

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Mood Icon Energetic

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Sales Icon 30,000 copies

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"One Nite Alone... Live!" ist das erste Livealbum von Prince. Das Doppelalbum erschien bei seinem eigenen Label NPG Records und konnte ausschließlich von den Mitgliedern seiner damaligen Webseite NPG Music Club vorbestellt werden. Ab dem 24. November 2002 wurde es weltweit ausgeliefert. Die Lieferung bestand aus insgesamt vier Disks. Neben dem Doppelalbum lag dem Set das zweite Livealbum "One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!" und das Piano-Akustikalbum "One Nite Alone..." bei. Ab dem 17. Dezember 2002 konnte man das Set auch in Musikgeschäften kaufen, wobei hier das Akustikalbum "One Nite Alone..." fehlte. Das 56 seitige Booklet gestaltete der Art Director Sam Jennings. Die Fotos des Booklets stammen von Afshin Shahidi. Das Albumcover gestaltete der Fotograf Jake Armour. "One Nite Alone... Live!" enthält insgesamt 27 Songs, zehn auf der ersten und 17 auf der zweiten CD. Die Laufzeiten der CDs betragen 63 Minuten und 42 Sekunden, bzw. 61 Minuten und 52 Sekunden.
Das Album umfasst Songs von neun verschiedenen Konzerten, die Prince während seiner "One Nite Alone..."-Tournee im März und April 2002 in den USA spielte. Der dritte Track auf CD1, "Xenophobia", ist dabei ein bisher unveröffentlichter Song. Hits wie "Let's Go Crazy", "Purple Rain" oder "Kiss" sind auf dem Album nicht zu hören, da Prince diese während der Tournee selten oder gar nicht spielte. Dagegen sind sechs Songs aus dem 2001 veröffentlichten Album "The Rainbow Children" und zwei Songs aus dem Akustikalbum "One Nite Alone..." vertreten.
Prince machte kaum Werbung für das Album - es konnte sich auch nicht in den internationalen Musikcharts platzieren. Weltweit wurde das Album ca. 30.000 Mal verkauft.
Am 12. August 2003 erschien die DVD "Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas", die einen Mitschnitt des Konzerts vom 15. Dezember 2002 in Las Vegas im Aladdin Theatre For The Performing Arts zeigt. Obwohl das Konzert 180 Minuten lang war, ist der Mitschnitt auf der DVD nur 81 Minuten lang.
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Always opposed to releasing a live album, Prince finally give fans what they had been longing for since 1978. An officially released live album. Prince once said if he ever released a live album it would have to be of the definitive show and being that his shows are always so varied, we all knew there was no such a thing as the ‘definitive show’. But then came along the One Nite Alone Tour, which is in my humble view his definitive tour. Worried that he was going to tour the piano album of the same name, the One Nite Alone Tour thankfully turned out to be the stuff fans’ dreams are made of. One Nite Alone… Live! captures the sound which swept fans away in 2002, Prince’s career musical peak. One year since the curtain fell on its last show this double-disk set was released to keep those heady nights alive for those who went to what was really a master class of musicianship and an experience that continues to blow the mind of attendees years later. Being that by 2002 Prince wanted to keep his set list fresh and purged many old stalwarts (Purple Rain being the main casualty) the tour’s set list included long lost fan favourite such as The Question Of U and Joy In Repetition and are sadly omitted from this album. Whilst disk two retains the familiar songs played on tour, disk one is occupied by the newer, livelier tracks performed for the shows’ opening segments. There can be just one gripe with the content of this double album. Disk two dwells too much on the piano portion of the show and slows the whole album down so far it fails to capture the vibrancy experienced by fans who attended the tour and result for non-attendees a flatter experience than the sonic odyssey that defined the tour; missing are Days Of Wild, The Ride and the covers Love Rollercoaster and Whole Lotta Love. Presented in a wonderful piano trimmed box set to make collectors gush, One Nite Alone… Live! contains a bonus CD of a collection of recordings taken from after shows of the US leg; named in honour of the fans’ frequent chant throughout the tour It Ain’t Over! This bonus disk contains the real jam-laden funk of the fabled after shows and restores lost fire to the set, which will and quite justifiably take pride of place in your Prince collection.


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