23.9.03
World Tour--First News!
Prince to roll out the hits
By NUI TE KOHA
18th Sept. 2003
PRINCE will launch a comeback with a world tour starting in Melbourne.
The master of funk, pop and rock, will perform at Rod Laver Arena on October 21.
And in a coup for fans, 45-year-old Prince will perform his greatest hits before retiring those songs forever.
"When I'm on stage, the audience has come into my room," he said at the time. "What I want to do is create excitement and provoke people as much as I can."
Many critics have urged Prince to go back to basics and the Melbourne show will attract worldwide attention.
"This has come like a bolt out of the blue for everyone," Dainty said late yesterday.
"Prince is renowned for doing everything suddenly and, in classic style, we will have Prince here very soon. He has committed to doing all the hits, so we are in for a long show of Prince classics."
In a typical Prince twist, he will scrap those songs from his live shows after this tour.
"Prince will perform his hits for the last time," Dainty confirmed.
In his rise to fame, Prince borrowed from Little Richard, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix and influenced a new generation of performers to fuse funk and rock.
His decision to return to the spotlight as Prince, and perform the hits, is a landmark. He has spent the past decade in the commercial and critical wilderness.
Prince tickets will go on sale on September 30th.
:: posted by Keyboardwizz 09:18
