Little Red Corvette : Rolling Stone

Written by: Prince
Produced by: Prince
Released: March '83 on Warner
Charts: 22 weeks
Top spot: No. 6

One week in 1982, Prince had a twenty-four-track studio installed in his basement; by 6 p.m. the day after it was set up, he had recorded "Little Red Corvette." The song -- an almost perfect erotic fusion of rock and funk that builds slowly until Prince explodes into a guitar solo -- ended up being his first Top Ten hit. Fittingly, he wrote the overtly sexual lyrics in the back seat of a car but not a red Corvette: It was a bright-pink Ford Edsel belonging to Revolution keyboardist Lisa Coleman.

Appears on: 1999 (Warner Bros.)

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