We’re sure that Prince thought long and hard about the sequencing of the tracks on Purple Rain, the 1984 soundtrack album to the movie of the same name, but little was he to know that, more than 40 years later, the position of the two songs at the beginning and end of Side B would lead to them being included in the finale of one of the biggest shows on TV in 2025.
We’re talking, of course, about Netflix’s Stranger Things, which came to an end last week with the strains of Purple Rain (the song) ringing in fans’ ears. And before that, they’d been treated to When Doves Cry, the first song on the second side of the Purple Rain vinyl album.
