Were Prince & The Revolution In All Your Dreams? Lisa Coleman Tells Sam Bleazard, 'it Got Bigger Than We Thought...we Didn't Expect To Become The Mainstream!' Tune In To Part 2 As She Hangs On To Prince's Creative Coat Tails In 1985. Essential Listening. How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? ...in Search Of Prince Rogers Nelson. podcast

Were Prince & The Revolution In All Your Dreams? Lisa Coleman tells Sam Bleazard, 'it got bigger than we thought...we didn't expect to become the mainstream!' Tune in to Part 2 as she hangs on to Prince's creative coat tails in 1985. Essential listening.

How can U just leave me standing? ...in search of Prince Rogers Nelson.

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INTRODUCTION - 2mins

2mins30s - Bootleg tapes begin to circulate at High School

3mins30s - Lisa remembers recording All My Dreams at Sunset Sounds...

5mins - Steiner School Highland Hall recitals and morning prayers make it on to unreleased songs with Prince

7mins - 'Sometimes we hurt each others feelings...and it meant a lot to me. There was always some kind of repair immediately afterwards.'

10mins - Rehearsals and cassette decks in the studio... 'I just found 4 boxes!'

11mins30s - Purple Rain 'it got bigger than we thought... we didn't expect it to become the mainstream, it was our version of alternative...'

16mins - The incredible well-spring of creativity taking place in 1985 with Prince, the Purple Rain tour, Around the World In a Day and Parade!

18mins30s - Prince seeks sanctuary, in the confines of the recording studio with The Revolution...

20mins30s - Any regrets looking back, about what could have been released? 'We were headed in this really interesting direction at that time...'

23mins30s - Sam asks Lisa if it's true that Prince re-recorded all of the Around the World In a Day album close to release?

25mins - Prince's bodyguards are drafted in to join the group as backing singers and dancers, as The Revolution band swells to double its original size.

27mins - Swapping musical ideas with Prince, conversations about classical music with Lisa...and listening to Bolero.

29mins30s - A shared love and appreciation of Joni Mitchell's music...'it turns out that he and Andre used to listen to Joni when they were kids.'

31mins - 'Prince didn't listen to The Beatles at all...' Lisa explains why!

32mins - After The Parade... 'I think we were both shell-shocked...'

34mins - Getting back together briefly in the new millennium...'there was that high', and getting onstage at The Brit Awards.

How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!

The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.

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