Prince's former mostly R&B/funk offerings would be more diversified with rock, pop, and classical music elements. Wendy and Lisa shortly thereafter formed a special bond with Prince and greatly influenced his output during the rest of their tenure in the band. Dickerson went on to eventually work for independent Christian record label Star Song. Prince told Dickerson he'd leave him on payroll and honor his contract, which Prince did. Prince told Dickerson that he needed three years from him, and Dickerson was not willing to commit. When the 1999 Tour ended, Dez Dickerson finally left the band for religious reasons and was replaced by Coleman's childhood friend Wendy Melvoin. The band members were curious as to if they were getting a real name, but Prince had held back from fully calling the group the Revolution partly because of Dez Dickerson's wishes to leave the band. The words 'and the Revolution' can be seen printed backwards on the cover of his fifth album 1999. However, a member of Rick James' band was doing the same thing and not wanting to copy that, Prince asked Fink, 'Do you have any other ideas?' Fink said, 'What about a doctor's outfit?' Prince loved the idea, and thus was born Doctor Fink.įrom 1982 to 1983, when the band was almost identified as the Revolution, it consisted of: Fink originally wore a black- and white-striped prison jumpsuit. Coleman was usually only identified by her first name, while Fink started wearing surgical scrubs on stage and became known as 'Doctor' Fink. Ultimately, Cymone was replaced by Mark Brown, renamed Brownmark by Prince. Cymone, whose family gave Prince a home after he left his father's house, left over a number of grievances with Prince-little input in the studio, he was not getting credit for his contributions to Prince's music, and in general his desire to start his own career-and would have bitter feelings toward Prince as he later claimed that Prince stole many of his ideas that were used for the Time and that he created the bassline for Controversy 's ' Do Me, Baby'. The following year, after the Dirty Mind Tour, bass guitarist André Cymone would leave the band. After a long conversation, Chapman quit the group to be replaced by Lisa Coleman. The end came when she told Prince she needed more musical fulfillment and growth for herself, but Prince wanted her to commit to some short-noticed rehearsals instead.

On the next two tours following the Prince Tour, the band underwent two line-up changes. Garcia's version, released in 1995, was rerecorded by Prince. Paris rerecorded the song from scratch, which was released in 1991. The project was shelved for unknown reasons, but two of the tracks were later re-recorded and given away by Prince: 'You', became 'U', and was released on Paula Abdul's 1991 Spellbound album while ' If I Love U 2 Nite' was released by both Mica Paris and Prince's later wife, Mayte Garcia. The recordings were a group effort with lead vocals by Cymone, Dickerson or Chapman. Though officially unnamed, Prince experimented with the band acting as a side project known as The Rebels, recording material in 1979 in Colorado to get more music out. Dez Dickerson on guitar, vocals, and background vocals.Prince on lead vocals, guitar, and piano.When Prince formed his backing band after the release of his first album, influenced by Sly Stone, he created a multi-racial musical ensemble with both male and female performers. The Revolution has won three Grammy Awards. The Revolution officially disbanded in 1986 after the Hit n Run – Parade Tour, which supported Parade, the soundtrack for Under the Cherry Moon, but following Prince's death in 2016, the band announced reunion shows. They charted six top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including three number-ones: ' Let's Go Crazy', ' When Doves Cry' and ' Kiss'. The band achieved its second number-one Billboard 200 album with Around the World in a Day in 1985.

By the time of their 1986 breakup, the Revolution had backed Prince on two studio albums, two soundtracks and two videos.Īfter making its studio album debut on 1999 (1982), the Revolution rose to international fame with Purple Rain (1984), which reached number one on the Billboard 200 and became certified 13× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Along with Prince's other projects, the Revolution helped create the Minneapolis sound. The band's sound incorporated rock, pop, R&B, funk, new wave and psychedelic elements. The Revolution is an American band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979 by Prince, serving as his live band and later as his studio band.

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