{"id":2877,"date":"2023-07-07T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2023-07-07T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:06:22","slug":"the-purple-one-peaks-at-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"The Purple One Peaks at 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1984 <em>When Doves Cry<\/em>, from his upcoming movie <em>Purple Rain<\/em>, gave &#8220;Prince&#8221; his first number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Billboard it was the top song of 1984 in the USA. It also topped the charts in Australia and Canada. The\u00a0music video\u00a0was directed by Prince himself and was released on\u00a0MTV\u00a0in June 1984 and sparked controversy among network executives, who thought that its sexual nature was too explicit for television.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prince &amp; The Revolution - When Doves Cry (Extended Version) (Official Music Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUc0R8bbWQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1984 When Doves Cry, from his upcoming movie Purple Rain, gave &#8220;Prince&#8221; his first number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Billboard it was the top song of 1984 in the USA. It also topped the charts in Australia and Canada. The\u00a0music video\u00a0was directed by Prince himself and was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-prince"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}