{"id":2450040,"date":"2019-10-18T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=900865"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:51:36","slug":"prince-estate-releases-acoustic-demo-of-i-feel-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/prince-estate-releases-acoustic-demo-of-i-feel-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Estate Releases Acoustic Demo of \u2018I Feel for You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GettyImages-523891512.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prince\/\">Prince\u2019s<\/a> eponymous second album turns 40 this month, and in honor of the anniversary, the Prince estate has released a previously unheard, acoustic demo version of \u201cI Feel For You.\u201d The full version of the song was one of the album\u2019s original tracks, and later became a hit single for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chaka-khan\/\">Chaka Khan<\/a> and the title track of her 1984 album.<\/p>\n<p>The demo is available now on streaming services, as well as on a limited-run 7\u2033 single CD, with the original album version of \u201cI Feel For You\u201d as its B-side. The single will be on sale at Prince\u2019s website for the next week.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Prince\u2019s estate, the cassette demo was recorded sometime in 1978-1979 as the 20-year-old musician was preparing for his debut solo performance at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was blown away,\u201d said Prince vault archivist Michael Howe on discovering the tape. \u201cHere is 20-year-old Prince thinking aloud, feeling his way through the song. You hear his incredible talent shining through on acoustic guitar, which is not something he typically showcased, and his guide vocal is astonishingly great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Chaka Khan re-recorded \u201cI Feel For You\u201d in 1984, it became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned the singer two Grammys, including Best R&amp;B Song, which recognized Prince for his songwriting contribution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-i-feel-for-you-acoustic-demo-900865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince\u2019s eponymous second album turns 40 this month, and in honor of the anniversary, the Prince estate has released a previously unheard, acoustic demo version of \u201cI Feel For You.\u201d The full version of the song was one of the album\u2019s original tracks, and later became a hit single for Chaka Khan and the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 21:19:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}