Publication: Rolling Stone [US]
Date: December 1986
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Title: "Prince and The Revolution - Parade"
Reviewed By: Staff

Prince remained rock's most exciting major artist. As was the case with such seminal creators as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, a new album by Prince was something one could automatically plunk down money for, secure in the knowledge that while the little guy might occasionally falter, he would never be uninteresting. Parade, the soundtrack from his muddled (but perhaps underrated) movie Under The Cherry Moon, marked a return to dazzling musical form. There was a new and exciting sparseness to the funk workouts (particularly "Kiss", the first single and the wittily Frenchified "Girls and Boys"), a new level of orchestral invention (the film’s title waltz) and a new maturity in the lyrics. Although Parade seemed to be a return to the lean funk of Dirty Mind, it was in fact more of a return to simply having fun with music.