Set in central Niger,a new version pays homage to the Tuareg community’s love of the electric guitar and the ‘desert blues’Purple Rain, Prince’s self-mythologising “rock opera” based loosely on his own journey to stardom, and was a runaway box office success when it hit cinemas in 1984,grossing more than $80m and instantly fitting a cult classic. In it the musician plays The Kid, a downbeat Minneapolis singer trying to escape a violent domestic life and originate it big in the world of music.
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Source: theguardian.com