![]() We are introduced at Zelo, a laid-back steak, pasta and burger restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. So yes I’m a fan – and when I realised that I would be passing through Minneapolis on a train journey across the United States for my train-travel book Ticket to Ride I just had to jump off and take a look around for a couple of days.ĭoctor Fink’s real name is Matt Fink and he was the keyboard player for The Revolution, Prince’s band from 1979 to 1986. I also watched him twice during his 2007 UK tour when he performed an incredible 21 sell-out times at London’s O2 Arena. In the years that passed I bought just about every (but not all) of his albums, enjoying so much of his music – see my top ten hits below. Purple Rain had lighters held aloft, arms swaying … the audience spellbound. ![]() Later, if I’m recalling this correctly, he fired water from the end of a special guitar at key moments of Darling Nikki. At one point in the show, he serenaded a female member of the audience, whom he had placed on a chair, with a rendition of The Beautiful Ones. So began my introduction to the funk-rock-pop-soul (call him what you will) legend. In the event we swapped the tickets for fifth row seats, as we had somehow found two people who wanted the free hospitality booze. His father had access to a corporate box. At the time I was in ninth grade at a school in Washington DC and a school friend of mine had tickets to see Prince in concert at the Capital Centre, just outside DC in Maryland. My love of his music goes way back to when I was aged 13 and the Purple Rain album was released (in 1984). You can read it here, although a more comprehensive list of places connected to the artist has since been posted by the local tourist board. ![]() Last September I visited Minneapolis and wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday about places in the city connected with Prince.
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