Birthday Week

This Friday, August 16, 2024, will mark my 53rd birthday.

What I am going to do is present this topic—this “Birthday Week”—with a music video.

The year 1984 was when I started buying music. (I was a late bloomer.) I enjoyed immensely so many of the year’s hits that I didn’t just buy … I collected. 

Given this is my birthday, I fondly recall being gifted with two related to music: First, I received tickets to see The Jacksons Victory Tour. Second, I was able to see, on my birthday [Thursday, August 16, 1984], the new motion-picture release, Purple Rain, starring Prince and Apollonia Kotero. 

Purple Rain won Prince (1958–2016) the 1984 Oscar for Best Original Song Score.

I don’t tend to revisit the film, often, but I do that with the music. The above video is the electric—and fun—“Let’s Go Crazy.”