INTRO
2mins30secs - how do you get from being a teenager on the school bus with your friends, with dreams of rock stars, to actually being at Paisley Park working as Art Director for Prince?
7mins - Coming up with a set design in 3 hours!
9mins30s - Coming full circle with Prince's best friend at High School, Andre Cymone...
11mins30s - Lovesexy t-shirt made in a hotel room - but how to get Prince's likeness...??
14mins - Three different Princes...? '...he could be tough with the musicians...'
17mins - "He expected so much more from himself..."
18mins - Being brought out to work on The Gold Experience, and 'being thrown right into the fire'
19mins - Working 120 hours a week...and being asked to move out to Minneapolis. Then saying no!
23mins - Coping mechanisms. 'I think everyone's relationship with him was different...'
25mins - ...how Prince motivated Steve, and swapping music with your idol.
33mins30s - Next assignment - being flown to Birmingham to paint Prince's eyes, having no passport in London and Graffiti Bridge...
38mins - Re-doing the artwork and Salvador Dali ideas...
43mins - Support networks in Paisley Park...'it was like a big family...'
How Can U Just Leave Me Standing? In Search of Prince... is produced and arranged by Sam J. Bleazard - but couldn't exist without the fabulous contribution from all of our guests!
The show also features significant original music compositions from Gavin Calder.
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