Musicology Tour — Wikipedia

The Musicology Tour is a tour of the singer and musician Prince, produced in 2004 across the United States. It corresponds to the publication of the disc Musicology , and accompanies both a media and commercial return of the artist to his country, ten years after his last great phonographic success.

The second half of the 1990s and the early 2000s were commercially difficult. Despite the worldwide success of song The Most Beautiful Girl in the World in 1994, or that, relative, of the box Emancipation In 1996, Prince suffered from his change by name for the benefit of the immense “love symbol”, following the conflict opposing him to his record company, Warner Bros. Albums follow one another at a high frequency, and sales are without measure with those made in the 1980s as in the early 1990s.

In 2004, while the disc and the film Purple Rain celebrate their twenty years, the musician, who recovered his original stage name, performs two remarkable television performances: one in the company of the singer Beyoncé, at the opening of the Grammy Awards Le Ceremony February 8 , the other the 15 mars , on the occasion of his enthronement to rock and roll Hall of Fame. The context is ideal for launching the “Musicology” tour, started the 27 mars In Los Angeles and offering each spectator a copy of the album of the same name.

This tour, excessively provided in dates, reported the largest income that year: $ 87.4 million. ^{[ Ref. desired]}

• Prince: song, guitar
• Mike Scott: rhythmic guitar
• Rhonda Smith: song and bass
• Renato Neto: Clavier
• Chance Howard: song and keyboard (temporarily more in The Time )
• John Blackwell: Battery
• MACECE PARKER: HIGH SAXOPHONE
• Candy Dulfer: Chant et Saxophone
• Mike Phillips : saxophone
• Grey Boyer : trombone

The list usually included the elements below, with a few songs replaced by others throughout the tour:

• Musicology
• Let’s Go Crazy
• I Would Die 4 U
• When Doves Cry (with extracts from Kiss )
• Baby I’m a Star (after an intro from 1999)
• Shhh
• D.M.S.R.
• I Feel for You (with the instrumental intro of A Love Bizarre and The Glamorous Life)
• Controversy
• God

(Dry guitar medley)

(Orchestra recovery)

Even if the tour promotes Musicology , very few songs from the album are played there. Prince preferred to offer a wide list, containing many old and famous songs.