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Prince penned ‘Purple and Gold’ fight song for Vikings in 2010
- Updated: April 21, 2016
3:54 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS — It never became a hit. It never was made a staple at Minnesota Vikings games. And in Prince’s labyrinthine discography, it’s not even close to the best song with “purple” in its title.
But in 2010, Prince recorded a fight song for the Vikings, after what turned out to be the last playoff game the legend’s hometown team would win in his lifetime.
Prince’s offering to the Vikings, a three-minute, 41-second anthem titled “Purple and Gold,” was penned at Paisley Park Studios in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen shortly after the Vikings’ 34-3 win against the Dallas Cowboys in the 2010 NFC divisional playoffs. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who was in a suite at the Metrodome that day watching his first Vikings game “in a very long time,” returned to his studio to record the tune, which was released before the Vikings traveled to New Orleans for the NFC Championship Game.
The song, which opened with the fife-and-drum sound of a military …
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