Video: Purple Rain

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1984: Let’s Go Crazy ◄

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► 1984: I Would Die 4 U

Purple Rain

Music Video details

First aired:	1984
Producer(s):	Robert Cavallo, Steven Fargnoli and Joseph Ruffalo
Director:	Albert Magnoli
Related home video/DVD:	The Story So Far... Nothing Compares 2 Him Purple Rain (DVD release - 20th Anniversary Collector Edition)
First (Commercially) Released:	24 August 2004

Awards
Date	Institution, Country	Award
This music video has not received any awards in the USA

Purple Rain is a Prince and the Revolution video released for broadcast and to promote the single. This video was not so much made or choreographed as a video, but uses the footage shot for the performance scene of the song in Purple Rain.

Oddly, the Purple Rain video is the only one from that era that was not uploaded by The Prince Estate on Prince YouTube channel in 2017.

Shooting Information

Shooting Sessions
Date	Location	Additional info
First two weeks of December 1983	First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA	Performance for the Purple Rain movie
Cast
Prince Bobby Z. Brownmark Wendy Melvoin Matt Fink Lisa Coleman
Crew
See Purple Rain Film crew

Versions

Released Versions

Title	Length	Released	Version	Additional info
Purple Rain	7:05	The Story So Far... (1986) Nothing Compares 2 Him (1990) Purple Rain (2004 DVD release)

Additional Information

	See Also	Quotation & triva

	Purple Rain Purple Rain (single)

	References
	The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)