On this day, forty years ago, Prince’s legendary album 1999 was released. That’s right, 1999 is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion, we’re looking at all of the iconic style moments that went along with it. Released October 27th, 1982, 1999 was Prince’s first top ten album on the Billboard 200, and was an interesting era for the artist.
Though Prince had experienced some chart success up to that point, he wasn’t quite at the massive popularity level that he would achieve two years later with Purple Rain (though the 1999 era paved the way for the Purple Rain era), but he wasn’t a total newbie to the music industry the way he was when he made his debut in 1978.
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