Paisley Park is a 65,000 square foot estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota , United States, once owned by an American musician Prince . It was opened to the public as a museum in October 2016.
19-417: Graffiti Bridge is the title of two related items: Graffiti Bridge (film) , a 1990 film starring Prince Graffiti Bridge (album) , a 1990 album by Prince Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Graffiti Bridge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
38-523: A music battle for ownership of Glam Slam. After Aura gets hit by a car, the two rivals settle their dispute and join forces. According to Terry Lewis , the film was originally a vehicle for The Time , but "in the end the story got lost and it became a Prince picture. But that was cool. I think our rapport with Prince is better now than it's ever been, because there's a mutual respect in the air ... Plus we got to hang out for six months on somebody else's budget." Morris Day explained: "A sequel to Purple Rain
57-527: A private studio used by Prince and Paisley Park Records artists like The Time , Carmen Electra , Jill Jones , Sheila E. and others, Paisley Park's production facilities were used by numerous artists, including Tevin Campbell , Martika , Fine Young Cannibals , Barry Manilow , Steve Miller , Bee Gees , Chris Mars , BoDeans , Madonna , Bob Mould , George Clinton , George Benson , Stone Temple Pilots , Stevie Wonder , R.E.M. , and A-ha . After
76-520: A subversive triumph, making records half-brilliant, half-quirky, managing the Minneapolis scene with the ghost hand of a funky Gatsby, deploying an army-harem of disciples and flashing a dazzle of guises unified in their harlequin outrageousness. By the very promiscuity of these bold strategies, he has inseminated the whole of pop. With Graffiti Bridge and its firm coalescence of his styles and concerns, Prince reasserts his originality — and does it with
95-429: Is a 1,500 square-foot space and originally utilized a 48-channel mixing console, which was later replaced by a 64-channel SSL 6000E. Studio B is a 1,000 square-foot space that was, per Prince's specifications, patterned after Sunset Sound's Studio 3, with a custom-built Automated Processes, Inc. API mixing console. Studio C has a 36-input Soundcraft TS24 console, and Studio D is a small DAW -based room. Initially
114-405: Is a 1990 American rock musical drama film written, directed by, and starring Prince in his third and final major theatrical film role. It is a standalone sequel to his 1984 film Purple Rain . Like its predecessor, it was accompanied by a soundtrack album of the same name . The plot continues with The Kid, living a future life as an upbeat performer and co-owner of a club, Glam Slam, which
133-402: Is what it ended up being. And the role that The Time plays is, well, crooks. In Purple Rain we were small time crooks and now we've graduated to the big time. We own and control this area called Seven Corners – which is really four corners and four clubs – and everyone answers to us. It's really about the rivalry between us and The Kid ( Prince ), who is the picked-on, felt-sorry-for hero. But in
152-493: The Paisley Park Records label folded in 1994, Prince continued to live and record at Paisley Park Studios, and he intended to establish Paisley Park as a public venue like Graceland . He was found dead in his estate's elevator on April 21, 2016. In the basement of Paisley Park there is a vault that held unreleased material, hundreds of hours of live recordings, music videos, and unheard songs. The contents of
171-648: The Clinton Club. Needing to pay the mayor of Seven Corners $ 10,000, Morris attempts to extort The Kid – by threatening to take full ownership of Glam Slam. Making matters more interesting is the arrival of Aura, an angel sent from Heaven to sway both Morris and The Kid into leading more righteous lives – while dealing with their attraction to her. As The Kid continues to resist him, Morris begins to embarrass him via performances with his band , to steal The Kid's customers. Losing clientele and having his club defamed by Morris's henchmen, The Kid decides to challenge Morris to
190-587: The Temple ". Despite the film receiving lukewarm responses from audiences, the accompanying album fared much better. Although there were many tracks, the following were selected for the album to appear in listed order within the film (although several appear in shorter and re-arranged lengths): The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture , Worst Actor (Prince), Worst Director (Prince), Worst Screenplay (Prince), and Worst New Star (Ingrid Chavez). Despite media hype of it being
209-483: The corresponding original soundtrack received widespread critical acclaim with glowing reviews from Rolling Stone ' s Paul Evans, Entertainment Weekly 's Greg Sandow, and the Chicago Tribune 's Greg Kot , the latter stating that the album was "a sprawling, wildly diffuse statement on love, sin, sex and salvation that ranks with his best work." In his review, Evans wrote that Prince ... has mustered
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#1732787235175228-469: The ease of a conqueror. In 1991, Prince was quoted as saying "(It was) one of the purest, most spiritual, uplifting things I've ever done. It was non-violent, positive and had no blatant sex scenes. Maybe it will take people 30 years to get it. They trashed The Wizard of Oz at first, too." The title "Graffiti Bridge" comes from a now torn-down bridge located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota . The bridge
247-452: The end he gets the girl and he beats us with a ballad . He changes our hearts and minds and makes us into good, church-going individuals with a song [laughs]." Filming took place primarily at the soundstage inside of Paisley Park , and at locations around Minneapolis . Graffiti Bridge is tied into the album of the same name , which spawned the chart-making singles " Round and Round " and " New Power Generation ", as well as " Thieves in
266-397: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graffiti_Bridge&oldid=1020584551 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Graffiti Bridge (film) Graffiti Bridge
285-567: The main designers were architect Brett Thoeny and acoustician Marshall Long. The complex shares its name with Prince's 1985 single, " Paisley Park ". The Paisley Park studio complex totalled 55,000 square feet by the early 1990s, and includes four recording studios , a 12,500 square-foot sound stage , a video editing suite, rehearsal room, offices, tenant space, and an underground parking garage. Other amenities include an outdoor basketball court, and living quarters. Paisley Park's four recording studios are designated A, B, C, and D. Studio A
304-442: The sequel to the massively successful Purple Rain , it was a commercial and critical failure and was included on several Worst of 1990 movie lists. Graffiti Bridge currently holds an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. However,
323-565: The vault have been since removed and relocated to a studio in Los Angeles to be restored, remastered, and stored in climate-controlled conditions to be used for later releases. An urn in the shape of Paisley Park which contains Prince's ashes was on display in Paisley Park's main entrance for a period of time after his death; after being moved into the vault, the urn was brought back out in 2021. After Prince's death, Paisley Park
342-659: Was torn down in the early 1990s to make way for new construction, but to this day remains a local legend. Graffiti Bridge was released on DVD on February 8, 2005. The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time on October 4, 2016 separately in a purple case and as part of the Prince Movie Collection. Paisley Park Construction of the $ 10 million complex began in January 1986, and officially opened on September 11, 1987. Designed by architecture firm BOTO Design Inc., of Santa Monica, California,
361-552: Was willed to him from Billy, who owned the First Avenue Club in the first film. Solitary and lovelorn, he spends his personal time composing songs, and writing letters to his deceased father. The other co-owner who was included in the will is Morris ( Morris Day ), his rival who now also owns his own club, Pandemonium, while desiring to control the other two clubs in the Seven Corners area, which are Melody Cool and
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