dir: Albert Magnoli
PURPLE ACID RAIN
MAD # 253, March 1985
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Harry North
The Kid (Prince) performs at a club in Minneapolis, and meets Appollonia, another aspiring singer.
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PURPLE ACID RAIN
PURPLE RAIN (1984)
dir: Albert Magnoli
PURPLE ACID RAIN
MAD # 253, March 1985
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Harry North
The Kid (Prince) performs at a club in Minneapolis, and meets Appollonia, another aspiring singer.
The Kid starts dating Appollonia and wants her to prove her love for him by undergoing a skinny-dipping ritual. She goes through with it before he can tell her he was just kidding. The Kid competes for her affections with Morris (Morris Day), leader of a competing band who is trying to replace him and manage a girl group fronted by Appollonia. The Kid takes Appollonia to his abusive parents' home as their relationship continues.
Appollonia has formed her own band with the help of Morris, and a heartbroken Kid finds his father had been a composer himself at one time. After his father commits suicide, the Kid dedicates his new song, Purple Rain, to him, and she becomes moved by it and him.
In real life, Prince a/k/a Ƭ̵̬̊ was a Jehovah's Witness. Jehovah's Witnesses are required to go to door-to-door on weekends to proselytize their religion, and apparently even celebrities aren't exempt. I don't know about you but if anyone came to my house dressed like him I'd listen to what they'd have to say.
dir: Albert Magnoli
PURPLE ACID RAIN
MAD # 253, March 1985
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Harry North
The Kid (Prince) performs at a club in Minneapolis, and meets Appollonia, another aspiring singer.
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Prince had a thin skin about being parodied; he always turned down Weird Al's requests, for example. So I wondered if he objected to Mad at all.
ReplyDeleteApparently he did, but the reference I found wasn't to the Purple Rain parody. Instead, it was to a strip that ran a few issues later, in #258, called "A Fairy Tale We'd Like To See". According to a fairly recent book about him, "Prince disliked" the strip because "he looked excessively oily" and "slightly grotesque".