The album cover for Purple Rain is hard to miss. One of the most pioneering and androgynous personas in music was astride a customized 1981 Hondamatic Honda CM400A motorcycle, in an ornate purple ...

That album’s slow build from its October 1982 release set the stage for “Purple Rain,” thanks to video ... to sit down with Rolling Stone for a cover story that published in September ...

"Throughout you'll see really subtle nods from the spray-painted eyes behind the bed to the original puppet ... like wallpaper resembling the "Purple Rain" album cover, to the big, like the ...