Prince (1986)
A success by accident, since the most famous title of Sa Majesté Pourpre should not even have appeared on his eighth album Parade. When Kiss, originally a demo written for the funk rock band Mazarati, signed to his label Paisley Park, came back to his ears, Prince tweaked it and included it on the album at the last minute. Better still, he decided once morest the advice of his record company Warner to make it the first extract from Parade. Kiss gives Prince his third number one in the American charts. In France, he failed in twenty-ninth place. Difficult to fight once morest Balavoine or Jean-Luc Lahaye.
Age of Chance (1986)
How do you recognize a real hit? The number of covers and the delay between the release of the original and the arrival of a reinterpretation. From the end of 1986, the covers started pouring in: the soul/funk singer Mona Lisa Young, the Dutch Bertus Staigerpaip (in their mother tongue), Art of Noise & Tom Jones… and Age of Chance, who signed with this cover the best title of his short discography. For the Leeds natives, the princely growls are replaced by a sung-yelled sound, the dry guitar by thick riffs and the funky rhythm by a metallic strike. Surprisingly, it was a success.
