Indigo Nights
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Indigo Nights is a live album by Prince
, mainly comprising songs played live during some of the aftershows at the indigO2 night club in London in 2007. It contains eight live versions of previously-released Prince songs, four cover songs, two new songs, and a monologue.
The CD is only sold coupled with the 21 Nights coffee table book
which was released on September 30, 2008.
The book reached number 9 on The New York Times
best selling Hardcover Nonfiction tiles.
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
, mainly comprising songs played live during some of the aftershows at the indigO2 night club in London in 2007. It contains eight live versions of previously-released Prince songs, four cover songs, two new songs, and a monologue.
The CD is only sold coupled with the 21 Nights coffee table book
Coffee table book
A coffee table book is a hardcover book that is intended to sit on a coffee table or similar surface in an area where guests sit and are entertained, thus inspiring conversation or alleviating boredom. They tend to be oversized and of heavy construction, since there is no pressing need for...
which was released on September 30, 2008.
The book reached number 9 on The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
best selling Hardcover Nonfiction tiles.
Track listing
- "3121" – 7:44 (contains interpolation of "D.M.S.R." from 19991999 (album)1999 is the fifth studio album by Prince, released on October 27, 1982. It was his first top ten album on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States and became the fifth best-selling album of 1983. 1999 was Prince's breakthrough album, but his next album Purple Rain would become his most...
) - "Girls & BoysGirls & Boys (Prince song)"Girls & Boys" is a 1986 song by Prince and The Revolution, from the album Parade, the soundtrack to the film Under the Cherry Moon. The song was released as a single in the U.K., and as the B-side to "Anotherloverholenyohead" in the U.S.....
" – 4:05 - "The Song of the Heart" – 1:39
- "Delirious" – 2:01
- "Just Like U" (Monologue) – 2:49
- "Satisfied" – 6:19
- "Beggin' Woman Blues" (previously unreleased song) – 6:43
- "Rock SteadyRock Steady (Aretha Franklin song)"Rock Steady" is a song written and performed by Aretha Franklin and released in 1971, from the album Young, Gifted and Black. The single reached the #9 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts that same year. It also peaked at #2 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart...
" featuring Beverley KnightBeverley KnightBeverley Knight MBE is a British soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer who released her debut album in 1995. Heavily influenced by soul greats such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, Knight has released six studio albums to date...
(Aretha FranklinAretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
cover) – 6:37 - "Whole Lotta LoveWhole Lotta Love"Whole Lotta Love" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is featured as the opening track on the band's second album, Led Zeppelin II, and was released in the United States and Japan as a single. The US release became their first hit single, it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970, when it...
" (Led ZeppelinLed ZeppelinLed Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
cover) – 4:42 - "Alphabet St.Alphabet St."Alphabet St." was the first single from Prince's 1988 album, Lovesexy, and the album's only top 10 single, reaching the top-10 in both the UK and U.S.. The song includes a rap by Cat Glover and is full of samples, and generally repeats themes from Lovesexy...
" – 6:09 - "Indigo Nights" (previously unreleased song) – 3:41
- "Misty BlueMisty Blue"Misty Blue" is a song written by Bob Montgomery in 1966 which has become a hit in the pop, C&W and soul fields through various versions, the most successful being the 1976 pop/soul hit by Dorothy Moore.-C&W hit versions:...
" featuring Shelby J. (Dorothy MooreDorothy MooreDorothy Moore is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer best known for her 1976 hit song, "Misty Blue".-Career:...
cover) – 4:25 - "Baby Love" featuring Shelby J. (Mother's FinestMother's FinestMother's Finest is a funk rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdock in the early 1970s. The group charted with the singles "Fire" , "Baby Love" , "Don't Wanna Come Back" , "Love Changes" , and "Piece Of The Rock" in the mid to late 1970s.-History:Mother's Finest...
cover) – 3:54 - "The One" (with guitar solo from the Graffiti BridgeGraffiti Bridge (album)Graffiti Bridge is the twelfth studio album by Prince and the soundtrack to the 1990 film Graffiti Bridge.The album was much better received in sales than the film, reaching #6 in the US and #1 in the UK. Nearly every song on the record was written by Prince despite the handful of artists...
track, "The Question of U") – 9:08 - "All the Critics Love U in London" (variation of "All the Critics Love U in New York" from 1999) – 7:05