Prince's 1984 epic Purple Rain is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Fact. Less is well is the factr that, during its creation, the track almost became a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks. Would the end result have been better? Only the Gods know the answer to that, of course, but we imagine it would have been similarly ground-breaking.
The Purple One apparently invited Nicks to appear on Purple Rain after they struck up a working relationship, inspired by each other's music. On hearing Little Red Corvette on the radio while out driving with her husband Kim Anderson on the day of their wedding in 1983, Nicks was instantly inspired to write Stand Back, which features on her second studio album, The Wild Heart.
