Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Performs Prince, "Folie" Songs

Fall Out Boy frontman and Rolling Stone reviews critic Patrick Stump recently stopped by our New York offices to perform a trio of songs, including an incredible acoustic version of Prince's 1979 hit "I Wanna Be Your Lover." Stump manages to capture the same vocal heights as the Purple One's famed falsetto on the track, which was the first major hit of Prince's career after it appeared on his 1979 self-titled album. Stump also performed raw, intimate renditions of a pair of Folie a Deux singles — "America's Suitehearts" and "What A Catch, Donnie," both of which can be viewed below.

As Rock Daily reported last week, Fall Out Boy will next join Blink-182 when the punk trio's reunion tour hits the road this summer. "When we started our band, we were like, 'Man, that'd be so awesome to meet Blink-182,'" bassist Pete Wentz told Rock Daily. "It's been a great stretch of headlining tours the last few years, but there's something interesting about opening up for bands when you have to rope the audience in." Click here for the Blink tour dates.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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