July 7, 1984 –
Prince’s song from his upcoming movie Purple Rain, When Doves Cry goes to #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, giving his first #1 hit, on this date.
There is no bass on this song. Prince took out the bass track at the last minute to get a different sound, though he hated to see it go. “Sometimes your brain kind of splits in two – your ego tells you one thing, and the rest of you says something else. You have to go with what you know is right,” he told Bass Player magazine.
