Pretty funny tune. The dude was just a genius songwriter. Read an article today on the big hits he wrote for other artists. Knew most of them but had no idea he wrote Stevie Nicks’s “Stand Back.” Learn something new every day.
Technically, the raspy 1983 Wild Heart dance track “Stand Back,” was written by Nicks herself – but Nicks has said it “belongs” to Prince. She likes to tell its origin story: It was the day of her wedding, she and her new husband Kim Anderson were driving North to Santa Barbara for their honeymoon when she heard “Little Red Corvette” for the first time. She wrote “Stand Back” start to finish that day, humming along to the Prince single. When she later went to record the song, she called to tell him the story. Twenty minutes later the Purple One showed up at her studio. He “walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about 25 minutes and then left,” she later told Timothy White. “He spoiled me for every band I’ve ever had because nobody can exactly recreate – not even with two piano players – what Prince did all by his little self.”
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/15-great-prince-songs-that-were-hits-for-other-artists-20160421/stevie-nicks-stand-back-1983-20160421#ixzz46cl8ruqz
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My favorite was The Bangles’ “Manic Monday”.
Stand Back was more Prince than Stevie Nicks, especially with the synths and lack of guitars.
“Read an article today on the big hits he wrote for other artists.”
I didn’t realize he also wrote “Nothing Compares 2U” which was a huge hit for Sinead O’Connor
WOW, goosebumps! Stand Back DOES have Prince all over it!