TAKEN FROM THIS BOOK I BOUGHT, AS RECOMMENDED BY ASR MEMBER JAMES EVANS:
http://forums.***************.com/showthread.php?t=216808&highlight=prince
another link to info on the book if above doenst work:
http://www.housequake.com/showthread.php?threadid=106155
A couple of snippets from page 74, titled "Prince vs the King of Pop":
"Prince has always been keen to play down any rivalry between the two. "I could talk to you about Michael Jackson," he told the New Musical Express in 1995, " but I would just be doing the job that a journalist does so there's no point." According to Robin Power, star of Graffiti Bridge, Prince was offered a lucrative licensing deal with Coke shortly after Jackson signed up with Pepsi, but turned it down. " He didn't want to be compared to Jackson," Power told Prince biographer Liz Jones. " He felt he should be compared with Miles [Davis] or [John Coltrane]," Power added, which perhaps gives another reason why he didn't want to appear on 'We Are The World', which Jackson co-wrote.
"The Bad sessions threw up another interesting tale. Jackson had his producer, Quincy Jones, speak to Prince about the possibility of a duet on the album's title track. The plan was for Jackson's management to plant false news stories in the press about a bitter rivalry between the two men leading up to the release of the single- which would serve as a supposed final battle. Problems arose, however, when Prince began to look in detail at the song's lyrics- and the first line, "Your butt in mine", in particular. "Who's singing that to whom?" Prince asked, " cause you sure aren't talking to me." Instead he offered up a reworking of his 1976 song 'Wouldn't You Love To Love Me?' but Jackson rejected it.
http://forums.***************.com/showthread.php?t=216808&highlight=prince
another link to info on the book if above doenst work:
http://www.housequake.com/showthread.php?threadid=106155
A couple of snippets from page 74, titled "Prince vs the King of Pop":
"Prince has always been keen to play down any rivalry between the two. "I could talk to you about Michael Jackson," he told the New Musical Express in 1995, " but I would just be doing the job that a journalist does so there's no point." According to Robin Power, star of Graffiti Bridge, Prince was offered a lucrative licensing deal with Coke shortly after Jackson signed up with Pepsi, but turned it down. " He didn't want to be compared to Jackson," Power told Prince biographer Liz Jones. " He felt he should be compared with Miles [Davis] or [John Coltrane]," Power added, which perhaps gives another reason why he didn't want to appear on 'We Are The World', which Jackson co-wrote.
"The Bad sessions threw up another interesting tale. Jackson had his producer, Quincy Jones, speak to Prince about the possibility of a duet on the album's title track. The plan was for Jackson's management to plant false news stories in the press about a bitter rivalry between the two men leading up to the release of the single- which would serve as a supposed final battle. Problems arose, however, when Prince began to look in detail at the song's lyrics- and the first line, "Your butt in mine", in particular. "Who's singing that to whom?" Prince asked, " cause you sure aren't talking to me." Instead he offered up a reworking of his 1976 song 'Wouldn't You Love To Love Me?' but Jackson rejected it.