My tweet from this night in 2016, asking Prince, "C'mon, @Prince3EG, can you tell us a story about the night you made When Doves Cry?"

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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 14:38:32 JST Anil Dash

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   The song itself is extraordinary. Stark, sexy, and searingly introspective. There had literally never been a song that sounded like this on the radio before — because Prince had pushed his drum machines, voice, keyboard skills and guitar well past any of their designed limits in order to produce the song. When I asked him (on this night, 8 years ago) to tell us a story about its recording, he demurred instead with a joke. "YES. WELL, IT WAS A STARRY NIGHT..."