Darling Nikki

diagnosis(). Pat is happily married to his wife Nikki, until he comes home to find her in the shower with another man, who he nearly beats to death right then and there. This incident causes him to be admitted into a mental health facility, where he remains for four years. When he gets admitted, he has no…

Track 5: The Glamorous Life Sheila E., The Glamorous Life One of the most significant outcomes of the Sunset Sound sessions was an album for Sheila Escovedo, a young Latin with well-honed percussion skills. She was the daughter of a professional backing player and had been introduced to Prince by Carlos Santana. With some considerable coaxing, Prince got Sheila to take a stab at the mic. Following a first, successful collaboration on “Erotic City,” Prince pulled her into the studio with a pile…

The closest one would get to know the true story of the iconic singer, Prince’s life, would be the Grammy award winning movie, ‘Purple Rain’. ‘The movie was indeed not an autobiography of Prince’s life but it was as close as the director could get. In the movie, Prince was a young, African American man, who was an up and coming musician. He was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He meets a woman named Apolonia, she was an aspiring singer to him, she also was not just a singer to him, and he fell in…

Senator and future Vice President, the committee compiled and published the "Filthy Fifteen", a list of 15 songs they classified as 'dangerous'. Sex was made the Aunt Sally in the agenda of the PMRC. Songs by popular artists of that era such as "Darling Nikki" by Prince and "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper took the first and fifteenth positions on the list respectively. Heavy metal tracks such as "Eat Me Alive" by Judas Priest (oral sex), "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" by W.A.S.P. (explicit language) and…

Maryland, in the year 1984. I was a 15-year-old teenager growing up in Reisterstown, Maryland - a town about an hour away from Baltimore. I was just like any other red-blooded American male teenager growing up in 1980's America. I liked video games and Pac- Man, loved "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", tried my hand at the Rubik's cube, and was concerned about the USSR and nuclear war. Oh yes, I,like millions of other teenagers loved good rock music and was just beginning to…