By Sam Bleazard
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INTRO to Charles
1mins30s - Reflections on Lincoln Junior High School, with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
2mins - Knocking on local doors in the neighbourhood just to listen
3mins - Hanging out in Sonny T's basement, and studying him
3mins30s - The MPLS drum beat: did Charles teach Prince? And influences...
4mins45s - MPLS fashions for young teens, dressing like Carlos Santana
5mins30s - Local schoolfriend Andre, starts out on saxophone, but is asked to play bass...
6mins30s - Having the same confidence of Prince
7mins - Getting the drum set in the bedroom
7mins45s - ...going to Seventh Day Adventist Church, but also Allstar Wrestling!
9mins - Going to the Sly & The Family show in MPLS
11mins - Prince's report cards and high school talent show notes!
13mins - The roots of the tree
13mins30s - Prince always wanted to be a 'badass musician'
14mins30s - Going to Prince's Dad's house - being immaculate and coming from a military background
15mins - everything matched, everything was hung up, everything was in order...
16mins- Prince's Mum had fur on the floor...and he turned out just like her.
16mins30s - Military fathers, Prince's Dad and complicated music
17mins45s - You let John play... and 2 different versions of The Horse With No Name
19mins - Jerry Hubbard, the bass player in The Time (in Purple Rain)
20mins - Family gatherings in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Charles Aunt Mary's house, staring at the organ
22mins - Charles Facebook post: Prince's school report in 1967
23mins30s - Charles Grandmother tells him that Prince is going to do something really special
25mins - He was on my band, I was playing and singing on the Delphonics... high voiced singing. Masculinity and dignity...
26mins - Prince becoming famous worldwide, 'he was built for it'
28mins - "You be you"
30mins - "While you were runnin' around chasing women, Prince was recording..."
31mins - "I used to go to jam sessions and bury dudes! Because of Prince..."
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
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INTRO
2mins30secs - Tamar's chemistry with Prince
'It was like a student following a teacher...[but] you can't work with that kind of greatness and take mediocre...'
6mins30s - Prince going on tour with Tamar, playing guitar on her U.S. shows
7mins45s - Will we ever get to hear her album 'Milk & Honey'? Her collaborative project with Prince.
8mins30s - "I'm not gonna wait on The Estate..."
9mins30s - Why did Tamar stop working with Prince? "...you're taking my fans... he started to get competitive..."
11mins30s - Mum designing tour costumes, for Tamar and the Twins on Saturday Night Live and other shows. 'I helped choose the fabric!'
12mins30s - Sharing a faith with Prince...and why it was destiny to meet him in that era.
15mins - Keeping in contact, and communications with Prince after they stopped working together. 'We were still the best of friends...'
17mins45s - Ashley remembers where she was when she found out that Prince had passed away. 'I just pulled over, and I cried...'
20mins - New projects coming up in 2024, working with Stewart Copeland from The Police, and the importance of an artist maintaining mystery.
23mins - Hoping that Sting will one day hear her singing 'Every Breath You Take' with a 48-piece orchestra.
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
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Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
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INTRO - Just coming back in late from London, and Houston...
3mins - the elevator pitch on Tamar, '...how would you describe yourself?'
4mins30s - Finding your tribe online
5mins - Tamar's passion as an educator
7mins - Were your parents or your family musical? Where did you inherit your talent from?
8mins - The original line up for Destiny's Child...but guess how many members?
9mins - How did the group come together originally?
9min30s - Wrestling with contracts inside girl groups, who has the last say, and the lack of longevity...due to the focus on image.
10mins30s - Working with Prince after graduating from College in her early 20s...after being on tour with Lee Ritenour, Beyonce, Missy Elliot and Alicia Keys
12mins - Somewhere Over The Rainbow in the mid 90s: Morris Hayes listens to a demo...and Tamar is flown with her Mum to record at Paisley Park.
14mins - Reflections on being in the music and entertainment industries at such an early age...
15mins - "Everything is negotiable...", how Tamar feels now about the 'business mind'.
16mins - Learning from Prince - '...everything that's happening now, he taught me...'
19mins30s - What were the first projects you worked on with Prince? And how did it come about?
20mins30s - Walking into Burbank Studios, with Sheila E...'a big test' while rehearsing for the NAACP Image Awards
22mins - "I just never had time to recognise it...but one of the biggest legends of all time saw something in me..."
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
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INTRO
2mins - Fan Questions: what happened at the Rio in Las Vegas?
3mins30s - Early, and unreasonable demands from Prince. Mentors and moving on without malice...
6mins30s - What was it like managing other artists vs managing Prince? Working with Andre Cymone and Jesse Johnson.
9mins30s - Working with the Prince Estate on a potential 'For You' Deluxe edition, Owen shares his view.
10mins30s - Keeping a diary and creating an archive since his earliest experiences in the music industry.
11mins30s - Tapes Prince cut at Owen's house in the late 1970s.
12mins - Getting Prince's music out to young people now, the importance of sharing with a new generation who weren't born during Prince's heyday.
15mins30s - The transformational effect Prince is still having on current fans of his music, reflections from Owen's recent book tour.
18mins - How did Prince lay down tracks in the early days? And an early test for Prince with Warner Bros, to see 'if he could really do it'.
21mins - Prince rejects the chance to work with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire (on his first album). "I'm attempting to do something new..."
22mins30s - Jamming with Prince (briefly) in an LA basement back in the day...
24mins30s - "Just pay attention to the energy coming out of the socket..."
26mins - How Owen felt at Prince's passing and his view on the success of Prince's life. "I did not want him to become isolated..." "I think Prince turned himself inside out to give us his gift. A lot of artists do it..."
30mins30s - Getting blown away by Prince in concert at the LA Forum. "He had gone from a guy in a band, to a frontman, he had completely transformed into something beyond what I thought he could be."
32mins - "Selfishly speaking....I kind of said to myself, yeah your instincts were right Owen..!"
33mins30s - The unexplainable magic of Prince, and A Sly Stone story...
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
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INTRO
2mins20s - Life experiences, in preparation for meeting Prince, working with stars and the need to avoid being a fan.
8mins - Is there anything you couldn't protect Prince from? No entourage, before the layers of fame and celebrity. 'He took the bus to my house...that's the Prince I loved.'
11mins - 'He was just a guy from North Minneapolis....I knew he was vulnerable.'
13mins - Courting controversy early on, and being able to deliver the goods.
14mins - PT Barnum, Colonel Tom Parker...and The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. 'Prince understood that...'
17mins30s - Did Prince have a neurodivergent condition?
20mins - "I saw that fire in his eyes..."
22mins30s - What moments did you like in Prince's later career? "For me it began with Dirty Mind, because he was taking chances..."
25mins30s - Owen's honest assessment of Prince's first album For You
29mins - Absorbing information from everyone around him.
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
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INTRO
2mins - The Dirty Mind era, the Prince persona begins to form, riding the New Wave...and that Trench Coat!
3mins - The 1979 period and working with costume designers...
7mins30s - The second punk period: Slave and the 1990s
10mins - Veils and Masking - the Exodus Has Begun...
11mins30s - Count The Days, style signifiers and finely tuned 'unconventional tailoring' in the new millennium
15mins30s - Art Official Age, moving away from tailored garments with age...and softer fabrics, kinder to the body
18mins - Memories of Lovesexy posters in Virgin Megastore in Edinburgh
20mins - Casci's sartorial take Lovesexy...and Prince's working wardrobe department at Paisley Park
21mins30s - "Prince in Polka Dots is just perfection..."
23mins - Working with very well known designers?
25mins - First concert costing £31.21 pence... getting the Mega Bus down from Galashiels to the O2 and 'getting my first tattoo in Camden'
31mins - Legacy as a fashion icon, 'his influence is all encompassing', and Prince's passing...crying with Mum and blaring his music on the double-decker bus.
33mins - Prince's influence on other artists and fans around the world.
34mins - Thank You
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
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INTRO
2mins - First memories of Prince, and standing next to the TV...feeling the static from Gett Off! Listening to Prince's Hits cassette in the Green Mondeo.
4mins - Born in the year of Lovesexy!
5mins - When did you realise that Prince's work could become a lifetime pursuit? "First and foremost I'm a fan...". Obsessed with John Waters, Pee Wee Herman and Bette Davis too. 'Eccentric, creative and fabulous people'.
6mins - Seeing Purple Rain at 14 and getting into fashion. "Prince was always on my mood board."
7mins30s - Studying Prince for years as an independent researcher alongside work...'when you do a PhD it's just the beginning of your research.'
9mins30s - 'The idea of Prince & Fashion, with a focus on the labour aspect and fan culture as well...'
11mins30s - What's going on with the Prince of the late 1970s? Casci unpacks the different sartorial elements. 'Very typical of a young adult finding themselves...through dress.'
14mins - Prince's experiments in fashion, thrift stores, borrowing, wearing women's clothing...
17mins - 'Becoming Prince': The Beautiful Ones book, and understanding elements of Prince's early imagination and dress-sense. The influence of his parents, musicians in North Minneapolis...and getting dressed to the 9s in the 1970s.
22mins - Heroes and influences...
23mins - Make Up.
26mins - World Building...'in a world called Fantasy'
30mins - Prince's female kinship. 'He surrounded himself with incredible women...and loved female energy.' Sly Stone's fashion, and James Brown's performances...expressing sexuality and sensuality. 'He liked the way particular fabrics felt on his body...'
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
#prince4ever #love4oneanother
PART 2: Talking Prince....
INTRO - Can you remember the first track of Prince that you heard...?
3mins - Rhonda Smith, and inspiration from female bass players
7mins - Nik West's Favourite Prince bass line?
8mins30s - Alphabet Street & This Is Not Music, This Is A Trip...
11mins - Daisy Chain: Prince and Larry Graham
14mins - Paisley Park, practicing in the hotel room and jamming with Prince
15mins30s - Talking solo careers with Prince
17mins30s - Recording with Prince and unfinished projects
19mins30s - In what ways was Prince not like you expected?
22mins - Going back to his musical origins and Prince taking inspiration from younger musicians...
27mins - Advice to young girls in the world of social media?
30mins - Where does Nik draw her style influences from?
32mins - Nik's feeling on Prince's legacy...
35mins - Nothing Compares to Prince shows in Australia with St Paul Peterson
38mins - What's next for Nik? She shares exclusive news on a new project!
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
#prince4ever #love4oneanother
INTRO
2mins - Nik talks about her Cotton Candy World Tour and playing at The Jazz Cafe in London
4mins - Shredding with lead guitarist Joey and why chemistry is so important to the band dynamic
5mins30s - learning guitar from her Dad at an early age
6mins45s - Playing gospel music by the Clark Sisters
9mins30s - Use of bright colours, a distinct visual style and being everything that you are...'the class clown'
11mins - is there a separation between superhero bass player Nik West, and Nik West offstage as a mum and an everyday person?
13mins - How did Nik come to meet (and work with) bass hero - and inventor of slap bass - Larry Graham
14mins30s - Recording with Larry Graham
20mins - Career and playing advice from Larry: valuing space in music, being yourself and letting your tribe find you...
24mins - Supporting George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic!
29mins - Creating a career your way and being very independent in the music industry.
30mins - Black Beauty, working with Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics and auditioning in the music industry.
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
#prince4ever #love4oneanother
INTRO
2min - Do you have a most cherished Prince related possession (from the 9 years you worked together)? "I joke with my friends that I only buy vinyl with my name on it!"
4mins - Biggest 'pinch-me' moments working with Prince...? 3121 era, cherished memories.
6mins30s - Which kind of people engaged Prince best behind the scenes?
7mins30s - Prince and his heroes...and a fierce competitive streak.
8mins - Memories of the Musicology tour, Sam's favourite shows.
10mins - When did you last speak to Prince?
11mins - Where were you, when you heard...
14mins - View of The Prince Estate and posthumous releases overall
17mins - What was it like getting tapes in the post from Prince??
17mins30s - Any tracks that you personally heard for the first time that blew you away?
19mins - Studio version of Prince & The Band
22mins - What's the piece of work that you're proudest of?
23mins - The creative process of working with Prince
26mins - NPG Ahdio Shows
31mins30s - DJing on Twitch: how does it work?
33mins - Prince album battles! Lovesexy vs The Black Album...Cindy C vs Alphabet Street??
36mins30s - Legacy
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
LINKS
Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook if you'd like to interact with the show on social media.
Email me at: [email protected] if you have any ideas for future episodes, or if you'd like to share any feedback on the show.
#prince4ever #love4oneanother
The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.