After the third chorus, he’s singing ‘in the purple…’ and then he pointed at me, which was the cue to take the solo," says ...

“Purple Rain,” Prince’s breakout rise-of-a-rock-star film, is being adapted into a stage musical featuring some of the pop musician’s best-loved songs. Bertrand Guay/Agence France-Presse ...

In that moment, I mean, what are you gonna do, right? There’s about two seconds and then you’ve got to hit the overdrive ...

“It was my first concert. Prince was on the ‘Purple Rain’ tour and he had a string of shows at the St. Paul Civic Center right around Christmas,” he said. “It was absolutely life-changing.