“Prince was always borrowing my car because it was awesome. I imagine he was making out in the back seat when he got the seed of the idea. But it's not a red Corvette – it's a pink Mercury!”: The inside story of Prince's first major hit

Prince in the Little Red Corvette video.

The artist born Prince Rogers Nelson was taking a nap in the back seat of a pink-and-white 1964 Mercury Montclair when the idea for the song that became Little Red Corvette first came to him.

It was an early morning in the spring of 1982 and Prince had just emerged from an exhausting all-night recording session.