{"id":1402,"date":"2014-07-30T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:35","slug":"legacy-purple-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/07\/30\/legacy-purple-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Purple Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Published July 30, 2014 by <a href=\"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/the-historyapolis-lab\/#kirsten\">Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"lead-para\">\n<p>Music journalist Andrea Swensson teamed up with MPR news host Tom Weber to create an in-depth audio documentary that looks at the legacy of <em>Purple Rain<\/em>, thirty years after the release of the movie. The pair toured First Avenue and interviewed Bobby Z (<span style=\"color: #222222;\">the drummer for Prince\u2019s band the Revolution) and Prince\u2019s co-star in the movie, Apollonia.<\/span>\u00a0Aired on the Current this last Sunday night,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurrent.org\/listen\/\/minnesota\/the_current\/local_current\/2014\/07\/25\/purple_rain_doc\"> this musical history<\/a> explores how a group of Minneapolis musicians changed rock and roll around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This postcard&#8211;from the Hennepin County Libraries Special Collections&#8211;shows the building formerly known as the Greyhound Bus Terminal. This image was created in the late 1930s, long before the music world imagined First Avenue. Thanks to citizen-researcher Rita Yeada for finding and digitizing this image.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 30, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard Music journalist Andrea Swensson teamed up with MPR news host Tom Weber to create an in-depth audio documentary that looks at the legacy of Purple Rain, thirty years after the release of the movie. The pair toured First Avenue and interviewed Bobby Z (the drummer for Prince\u2019s band&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,19,63,119,139,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}