Thursday, December 6, 2018

Sign 'o' the Times (1987), 6

PG-13 | 1h 25min | Documentary, Music | 20 November 1987
A concert film with theatrical staging, featuring live performances by Prince and his band.
Directors: Prince, Albert Magnoli (uncredited)
Stars: Prince, Sheila E., Sheena Easton.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093970/
disc arrived recently.

14 songs in the Soundtracks; most familiar: Little Red Corvette.

OK concert. I have little (other than Queen) to compare with this, but the sound didn't seem well-captured for part of it.

I like his guitar playing, and he sat at the keyboard a couple of times too. I didn't capture on which songs the band got a little jazzier than usual, nor where they quoted a bit of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train, but that got a smile from me.

Noticed that AmazonPrime has this now. The disc is a bad copy: not WS and the image is too dark. If/when you want to see this again, check Prime first.

This dvd includes a discography of 23 Prince (1958-2016) albums 1978-2001. Per Wikipedia: "Prince's album discography consists of thirty-nine studio albums (including five soundtrack albums), four live albums, eight compilation albums, seventeen video albums, thirteen extended plays and one posthumous album." The list spans 1978-2015 +2018.

Rated 8.1 (1,467)

Cineplex-Odeon Films, dir. Prince & Magnoli; 6