"Prince made it cool again for a black man to play a guitar in any style they want. The song 'Purple Rain' is about the friendship between a man and a woman"
"The whole album was recorded using synthesizers - at the time this was unheard of for a pop album. For seven months - Aug 81 to Feb 82 they were in the UK Top 40 singles chart every week"
"This is a very beautiful album - it is played with so much restraint and it maintains a very powerful, alluring atomsphere throughout the whole album"
"This my favourite U2 album. I like the subject matter of the songs and the arrangements. Bono has never sounded so sensitive as he does on 'Elvis Presley and America'"
"Morrissey was a genuis from 1982 to 1990 - the wit and humour. Johnny Marr is just brilliant - check out the arrangement on 'There is a light that never goes out' - flawless"
"One of the first cassettes I ever bought when I was 11 - this is a wonderfully played album. I love the whole mood of the album - the tracks on here have been sampled so much over the years"
"'Every breath you take' - a sinister bass that expresses the lyrics perfectly. A control freak who is stuck - in the middle of the song he opens his heart but by the end he goes back to what he knows"
"If Kraftwerk ever got too drunk in the studio and wrote about their love lives as well as history - this would be their soundtrack - great pop music."
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