39 Studio Albums, 4 Live Albums, 6 Compilation Albums, 17 Video Albums, 136 Music Videos,13, EPs, 104 Singles, 1 Remix Album…

• Prince played guitar on Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’, ‘Keep It Together’ and ‘Act of Contrition’.
• He called his Instagram “PRINCETAGRAM”
• Prince’s father also named himself Prince when he toured as a musician.
• He sent Janelle Monae a ‘singing telegram’ asking for a copy of her album ‘The Electric Lady’.

• Stevie Nicks was asked to write lyrics for ‘Purple Rain’ but turned it down.
• The week of July 27 1984, Prince topped both the film box office, single and albums charts, with his film ‘Purple Rain’ and ‘When Doves Cry’ respectively
• He had is own Wikipedia spin-off site. Princepedia
• His first group was called Grand Central, and then he changed their name to Champagne.

• His back catalogue expands over 600 tracks
• His first ever song was called ‘Funk Machine’.
• He hid 14 purple tickets in his album called ‘3121’ and those lucky 14 ticket holders got to go to a private gig at Paisley Park.
• Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

• Prince wrote some bonafide bangers for artists, notably ‘Manic Monday’ by The Bangles and ‘I Feel for You’ by Chaka Kha,  ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ Sinead O’Connor and “How Come You Don’t Call Me” for Alicia Keys to name but a few.
• The album Planet Earth was given away in the Mail On Sunday for free.
• He absolutely loved Spaghetti.
• His famous vault full of new music was recently drilled opened by Bremer Trust and they found enough music to release a new album every year for the next century. The unreleased music pre-dates the release of 1984’s Purple Rain.

• His nicknames were The Kid, The Purple Purv, The Minneapolis Midget, Alexander Nevermind, Christopher Tracy and The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
• He loved basketball even though he was only 5″2.
• Purple Rain, the film made a whopping $68,392,977 and only cost $7million to make. It was written about bandmate Wendy Melvoin’s sister Susannah Melvoin.
• Members of the fan group Prince Army have designed a commemorative banner with all  members faces that will be pinned to Paisley Parks wall tomorrow.