Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: February 20, 1985
Title: "For Prince's Concert, It's a Reign of Rock; Singer Gambles With the Audience, Opens His Six-Show Forum Searis With And Eccentric, Ambitious Performance"
Summary: When a rock artist makes a movie, it's usually to express things that can't be conveyed in mere songs andconcerts.Prince's movie, "Purple Rain," however, is a hoary melodrama that pales next to the eccentric, chancy, ambitious show the singer offered Monday at the Forum, where he attempted to transform inner turmoil into galvanizing rock spectacle.

Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: May 26, 1986
Title: "Amiable Prince Previews New Show"
Summary: Prince'sconcertat the Warfield Theatre here Friday night was the third in a series of recent warm-up dates in connection with the controversial pop star's expected summer tour. Let's hope there'll be a fourth warm-up. Prince needs to rethink some of this show.

Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: May 30, 1986
Title: "Prince Warm-Up Show At Wiltern"May 30, 1986
Summary: In the fourth of a series of warm-up shows for his expected summer tour, Prince will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the Wiltern Theatre.

Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: June 2, 1986
Title: "Prince In Another Warm-Up"
Summary: Near the end of his "sneak" concert Friday night at the Wiltern Theatre, Prince assured the audience that this show was no rehearsal.

Publication: Bergen Record [US]
Date: August 4, 1986
Title: "A Little Too Sophisticated; Close, But…"
Summary: When he was 17, Prince visited New York City and Madison Square Garden. He dreamed of someday playing music in the giant arena.

Publication: Melody Maker [UK]
Date: June 27, 1987
Title: "Peach In Our Times"
Summary: The last time I spoke to Prince, he told me: "I'm gonna stop this soon. I don't expect to make many more records for the simple reason that I wanna see my life change." That was in June 1981 and it was quite conceivably the last lie he ever told.

Publication: Melody Maker [UK]
Date: June 20, 1992
Title: Prince And The New Power Generation
Summary: The giant velvet bed suspended 20 feet above our heads was the first sign that tonight was going to be a Bit of a classic. With it's giant clawed hands instead of legs, and two neon-lit headboards, it looks like something the Queen Of Narnia would use for shagging the dwarves on the quiet.

Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune [US]
Date: January 24, 1995
Title: "Fans Flock To Paisley Park"
Summary: Early Sunday morning at Paisley Park Studios, and the New Power Generation turned in a 70 minute set that was much looser, funkier and more rewarding than the benefit for Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton a week ago.

Publication: Press Association Newsfile [UK]
Date: March 4, 1995
Title: "Less Than Royal Response For Ex-Prince"
Summary: Pop superstar Prince was officially pronounced dead - and the Artist Formerly Known As Prince took the stage for the opening concert of his first British tour since his bizarre change of name.

Publication: London Times [UK]
Date: March 6, 1995
Title: "Pop"
Summary: David Sinclair watches as 'the Artist Formerly Known as Prince' kick off his new British tour in unfamiliar musical guise For the last two years, he has insisted that his name is a gender-blending squiggle, not Prince.

Publication: Guardian [UK]
Date: March 7, 1995
Title: "?"
Summary: More jams, less tunes as the former Prince returns expensively to Wembley Slave to the rhythm. Caroline Sullivan A POP Big costing £27.50? Well Prince has an endorphin machine to pay for. Said £250,000 contraption is a gold-varnished stage set shaped to "represent" male and female genitalia.

Publication: De Volkskrant (The People's Paper) [?]
Date: March 27, 1995
Title: "Hello Holland This Is Not a Prince Show"
Summary: How serious does one need to take him? The man who formerly was known as Prince may have placed many riddles and mysteries around him, his music was not really surprising anymore.

Publication: Oor [?]
Date: April 10, 1995
Title: "?"
Summary: About the regular concerts: The concerts of Prince look more like election meetings than like a real tour. His beloved public has to support hum in his dispute against his record company and to bury his old name definitive.

Publication: Hot Press [?]
Date: April 19, 1995
Title: "?"
Summary: He's a motion study in energy and turbulence. The whites of his eyes as icily bright as dawn frost as he grinds, gyrates and writes cheques (checks) with his mouth that only his body could cash.

Publication: Billboard [Internet]
Date: January 9, 1997
Title: "Live: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"
Summary: The artist formerly known as Prince may have dropped his name, but he still knows how to make a body rock. Before a capacity crowd of 1,200 at Boston's Roxy, the Minneapolis chameleon proved once again his strength in funk and the dirty-grind of dance music that marked both his early hits and his latest three-CD set, "Emancipation," his first effort after being released from his former record label, Warner Bros.

Publication: Boston Globe [US]
Date: January 10, 1997
Title: "Former Prince Gives Fans A Reason To Dance"
Summary: With an eclectic set representing 15 years of his pop life, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince fulfilled every bit of pre show hype with music that celebrated the comfort of sex and examined the need for salvation, whether by a lover's arms or by the hand of a higher power.

Publication: Mr. Showbiz [Internet]
Date: January 12-18, 1997
Title: Music: News Releases Section
Summary: DETROIT, January 13--The marquee outside the State Theatre didn't read "Prince" or "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," nor was it emblazoned with the now-infamous glyph. Its message was simple: "Emancipation Celebration." Over the course of his nearly two-hour show Monday night, Prince preened and strutted giddily, like a man with a new life to live and no time to waste in getting on with it.

Publication: New York Daily News [US]
Date: January 13, 1997
Title: "Reclaiming The Crown"
Summary: Happy with music again, the former Prince reins his grooves into a tight explosive show.

Publication: New York Times [US]
Date: January 13, 1997
Title: "Still a Master of Precision, And Still Bathed in Purple, Prince Learns to Let Go"
Summary: On his new three-CD set, "Emancipation," the Artist Formerly Known As Prince) hereafter abbreviated as Prince) tears his heart out in a song with the chorus, "I can't make you love me if you don't."

Publication: Toronto Sun [US]
Date: January 13, 1997
Title: "Princely Show From The Artist"
Summary: NEW YORK -- It may not have been the Jam Of The Year - as proclaimed in the first song of the same name - but there were moments that sure felt like it.

Publication: Detroit Free Press [US]
Date: January 14, 1997
Title: "The Former Prince Heats Up Detroit In Long-Awaited Return"
Summary: They got crazy Monday night at the State Theatre. They also got sanctified by the sound and fortified by the funk, as the artist formerly known as Prince nodded back at 15 years of music to lay down 135 minutes of heavy-duty groove.

Publication: USA Today [US]
Date: January 14, 1997
Title: "The Artist Stages A Party"
Summary: The Artist - as he who was once known as Prince now calls himself - put on a pulsating, 2 hour groovefest at Constitution Hall that defied anybody in the house to sit down (3 1/2 stars out of 4)

Publication: People Daily [Internet]
Date: January 14, 1997 "Peephole"
Summary: FIT FOR A PRINCE: Even as TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known as Prince), ducked his past at a New York concert this weekend (he told fans screaming for some of his old hits: "Prince is dead"), he did reclaim much of his old glory.

Publication: Philadelphia City Paper [US]
Date: January 17, 1997
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As..."
Summary: During the ballad "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" he teased, "Is your man fine? Has your man got an ass like mine?"

Publication: Honolulu Star-Bulletin [US]
Date: February 17, 1997
Title: "The Former Prince Dusts Off Old Favorites For Adoring Fans"
Summary: Call him Prince. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Unpronounceable Hieroglyph. The Mega-millionaire "Slave." Call him The Guy Who Started Last Night's Concert 45 Minutes Late. A rose by any name still smells.

Publication: Honolulu Star-Bulletin [US]
Date: February 17, 1997
Title: "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Posed, Postured And Worked The Crowd With Wry Wit"
Summary: Purple Rain was a nod to the music of his four movies ("Under The Cherry Moon," Sign O' The Times, and "Graffiti Bridge" were the other three). A tantalizing hint of Scandalous was a brief acknowledgement of the brilliant suite of songs he crafted for "Batman."

Publication: Mojo [UK]
Date: March 1997
Title: Roseland Concert Review
Summary: In the past few months The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has done what was once nearly unthinkable: he's decided to actually work a record. Which means he's gone on talk shows, spoken to the press and hit the road to promote his excellent 3-CD Emancipation.

Publication: Hollywood Reporter [US]
Date: April 14, 1997
Title: "Concert Review - the Artist"
Summary: Whatever he may choose to call himself, His Name is Prince - and He is funky!

Publication: Los Angeles Times [US]
Date: April 14, 1997
Title: "Determined Fans Motivate Artist in a Blistering Show"
Summary: When the Artist Formerly . . . (well, you know who), summoned his fans on short notice to the Pantages Theatre on Friday for his first Los Angeles appearance in nearly four years, they showed up in droves.

Publication: San Jose Mercury News [US]
Date: April 20, 1997
Title: " Goes Back To School"
Summary: It's so nice to finally see something that lives up to the hype. Between the strange and the canceled shows because of scalping, there was a whole-lotta-hype to live up to surrounding the artist born Prince Rogers Nelson 38 years ago.

Publication: San Jose Mercury News [US]
Date: April 21, 1997
Title: "The Former Prince in Fragments: The Grooves Don't Gel At San Jose Show"
Summary: That little fellow everybody used to know as Prince may no longer really matter in the grand scheme of the pop music world, but there certainly is something likable about the sprightly funkman.

Publication: Cleveland Scene [US]
Date: May 17, 1997
Title: "THE ARTIST,CSU Convocation Center"
Summary: The more things change,the more they stay the same.The last time Prince Rogers Nelson sashayed to a Cleveland concert stage he was known as Prince,supporting the quintessential album PURPLE RAIN.

Publication: Cleveland Plain Dealer [US]
Date: May 17, 1997
Title: "There is just no mistaking unique artistry of Prince"
Summary: It doesn't matter what you call him- Prince,the Artist Formerly Known as Prince,or simply The Artist.When Prince Rogers Nelson steps on a stage to perform,as he did Saturday night at the Cleveland State University Convocation Center,there's no mistaking him.

Publication: The Toronto Star [CAN]
Date: June 6, 1997
Title: "Artistic Licence: Prince Prepares for Expected World Tour"
Summary: Prince is renowned for turning in riveting performances and marathon jams and he did it again last night at a rare club gig in the Warehouse in front of 2000 fans.

Publication: Toronto Sun [CAN]
Date: June 6, 1997
Title: "Artist's Jammin' Has The Royal Jelly"
Summary: The Artist, otherwise known as Prince, brought his Love 4 One Another Charities tour to the Warehouse last night, hopefully as a sneak preview of a bigger-venue road trip this summer.