21Nights with Prince @ O2, London
Alejandro De Luna
Prince is probably the most gifted musician in the history of popular music and one of the most prolific geniuses of all time. Despite that he has over 600 songs published, some hardcore fans out there claim that around 4, 000 of his songs are still waiting to leave the vault. The man who can play any instrument with virtuosity and on top of that, to have an enviable vocal range. R&B, funk, pop, psychedelia, hard rock, metal, electronic, hip- hop, jazz,blues, folk, rock n´roll. Nothing is impossible for the purple wizard. Not even to give a marathonic set.
READ: PRINCE & 3RDEYEGIRL @KINGS PLACE, LONDON (SECRET GIG) (2014)
From August 1st to September 21st, 2007, the purple wizard became a resident in London to provide 21 legendary shows at the O2 Arena. With a soldout crowd every night and variations on the setlist, the cost of the tickets was £ 31.21 as a reference to his 3121 album .But as if the 21 exhaustive shows at the O2 Arena were not enough, Prince offered 12 additional sold out after-shows at the IndigO2 club (3,000 people capacity) offering a vast amount of tributes to artists who influenced him next to other unplayed originals.
” We play so many different styles of music, it’s really hard to get a full dose of what we do unless you come to several shows ” (Prince, 2007)
THE SETLIST DAY BY DAY
THE SONGS
| thesenseofdoubt.com | 21 Nights @O2 Arena + IndigO2 | |
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PRINCE SONGS = 90 |
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COVERS = 67 |
| 1999 O2+INDIGO2 | A Love Bizarre (Sheila E. cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| 3121 | A Night in Tunisia (Boyd Raeburn cover) | |
| 3121 (Instrumental) | Addictive Love (BeBe & CeCe Winans cover) | |
| 7 O2+INDIGO2 | All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) | |
| A 1,000 Hugs & Kisses | All Shook Up (David Hill cover) | |
| Adore | Baby I Love You (Aretha Franklin cover) | |
| All the Critics Love U in New York (Perfomed as “London”) | Baby Love (Mother’s Finest cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Alphabet St. O2+INDIGO2 | Be Happy (Mary J. Blige cover) | |
| Anotherloverholenyohead O2+INDIGO2 | Bennie and the Jets (Elton John cover) | |
| Around the World in a Day | Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones cover) | |
| Baby I’m a Star | Bustin’ Loose (Chuck Brown cover) | |
| Beautiful Strange | Can I Kick It? (A Tribe Called Quest cover) | |
| Beggin’ Woman Blues | Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue cover) | |
| Black Sweat | Cherish the Day (Sade cover) | |
| Black Sweat | Come Together (The Beatles cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Calhoun Square | Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Chaos and Disorder | Down by the Riverside (Maceo Parker cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Chelsea Rodgers O2+INDIGO2 | Everyday People (Sly & The Family Stone cover) | |
| Condition of the Heart | Face It Girl, It’s Over (Nancy Wilson cover) | |
| Controversy O2+INDIGO2 | Footprints (Wayne Shorter cover) | |
| Cream | Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder cover) | |
| D.M.S.R. | Honky Tonk Women (The Rolling Stones cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Darling Nikki | I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (Aretha Franklin cover) | |
| Dear Mr. Man | I Want to Take You Higher (Sly & The Family Stone cover) | |
| Delirious O2+INDIGO2 | I’ll Take You There (The Staple Singers cover) | |
| Diamonds and Pearls | It’s Alright (Graham Central Station cover) | |
| Do Me, Baby | It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me (Barry White cover) | |
| Elephants & Flowers | Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover) | |
| Empty Room | Le Freak (Chic cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Erotic City | Let’s Go (The Cars cover) | |
| Forever in My Life | Love Changes (Mother’s Finest cover) | |
| Get on the Boat O2+INDIGO2 | Love Is a Losing Game (Amy Winehouse cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Girls & Boys O2+INDIGO2 | Love Is a Losing Game (Amy Winehouse cover) (with Amy Winehouse) | |
| Go | Love Rollercoaster (Ohio Players cover) | |
| Gotta Broken Heart Again | Misty Blue (Eddy Arnold cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Guitar O2+INDIGO2 | Nasty Girl (Vanity 6 cover) | |
| Head | Nine Million Bicycles (Katie Melua cover) | |
| How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore | Nothing Compares 2 U (The Family cover) | |
| I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man | Pass the Peas (The J.B.’s cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| I Feel for You O2+INDIGO2 | People Get Ready (The Impressions cover) | |
| I Like It There | Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| I Wanna Be Your Lover | Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) | |
| I Would Die 4 U | Redhead Stepchild (Tamar Davis cover) | |
| If I Was Your Girlfriend | Rock Me Baby (B.B. King cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Insatiable | Rock Steady (Aretha Franklin cover) | |
| Irresistible Bitch | Shake Everything You Got (Maceo Parker cover) | |
| Joy in Repetition O2+INDIGO2 | Sing a Simple Song (Sly & The Family Stone cover) | |
| Kiss | Stratus (Billy Cobham cover) | |
| Lady Cab Driver | Suga Mama (Beyoncé cover) | |
| Let’s Go Crazy | Superstition (Stevie Wonder cover) | |
| Let’s Work | Sweet Thing (Chaka Khan cover) | |
| Little Red Corvette | Tell Me Something Good (Chaka Khan cover) | |
| Lolita O2+INDIGO2 | Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly & The Family Stone cover) | |
| Money Don’t Matter 2 Night | Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa (Sly & The Family Stone cover) | |
| Musicology O2+INDIGO2 | The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles cover) | |
| Nasty Girl | The One (New Power Generation cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Paisley Park (instrumental) | The World Is a Ghetto (War cover) | |
| Partyman O2+INDIGO2 | There Was a Time (James Brown cover) | |
| Partyup | Villanova Junction (Jimi Hendrix cover) | |
| Peach O2+INDIGO2 | What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong cover) | |
| Pink Cashmere | What Have You Done for Me Lately (Janet Jackson cover) | |
| Planet Earth O2+INDIGO2 | What Is Hip? (Tower of Power cover) | |
| Pop Life | What You Need (INXS cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Purple Rain | When Will We Be Payed (The Staple Singers cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Raspberry Beret | Who Is He? (And What Is He to You) (Bill Withers cover) | |
| Satisfied O2+INDIGO2 | Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin cover) O2+INDIGO2 | |
| Sexuality (Performed as “Spirituality”) | You Bring Me Joy (Mary J. Blige cover) | |
| Sexy Dancer O2+INDIGO2 | ||
| She’s Always in My Hair | ||
| Shhh O2+INDIGO2 | ||
| Sign “☮” the Times | ||
| Soft and Wet | ||
| Sometimes It Snows in April | ||
| Somewhere Here on Earth O2+INDIGO2 | ||
| Song of the Heart | ||
| Strange Relationship | ||
| Take Me With U | ||
| The Ballad of Dorothy Parker | ||
| The Beautiful Ones | ||
| The Dance | ||
| The Dance (instrumental) | ||
| The Morning Papers | ||
| The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | ||
| The One U Wanna C | ||
| The Question of U O2+INDIGO2 | ||
| U Got the Look | ||
| Under the Cherry Moon | ||
| Use Me | ||
| When Doves Cry | ||
| When You Were Mine O2+INDIGO2 |
THE FACTS
Dates: August 1st to September 21st, 2007
Gigs: 21 at the O2 and 12 at the IndigO2
Total songs played: 616 at the O2 Arena and 203 at the IndigO2.Total = 819 songs
Crowd: Almost half a million people
The historic document: The book, “21 Nights”, that compiles the exhaustive tour in London with an additional CD with several songs recorded at the IndigO2 club.
