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Album: PLECTRUMELECTRUM (2014)
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  • This is the opening track of PLECTRUMELECTRUM, an album recorded live by Prince with his all-female backing band 3rd Eye Girl. The tune was adapted from "The Unexpected," a song the Purple maestro wrote for his protégé, the New Power Generation backing singer, Liv Warfield. "The girls said they would kill me if I didn't give it to them," Prince told Mojo magazine.

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