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Rocknroll Loveaffair - Wikipedia

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"Rock and Roll Love Affair"

Single by Prince

from the album Hit n Run Phase Two

Released

November 22, 2012

Studio

Paisley Park, Chanhassen, Minnesota, US

Length

4:01

Label

NPG / Purple Music

Songwriter(s)

Prince

Producer(s)

Prince

Prince singles chronology

"Extraloveable"
(2011)

"Rock and Roll Love Affair"
(2012)

"Screwdriver"
(2013)

"Rock and Roll Love Affair" was a stand-alone single released on Swiss label Purple Music on November 22, 2012 (after initially being announced for November 2, then November 16, 2012). It was announced available for retailers on November 26, 2012.

The single premiered on September 17, 2012, on America radio iHeartRadio.com and Media Entertainment-owned stations. At the same time, Prince's appeared on the American talk show The View.^[1] It was announced as rotating on European radios from October 12, 2012, onwards. "Rock and Roll Love Affair" was released on CD and 12" vinyl (regular and picture).

The single entered the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart on October 6, 2012 at position 22.^[2] The single also charted for one week on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart on February 20, 2013, peaking at number 7.

"Rock and Roll Love Affair" was included on Prince's 39th studio album Hit n Run Phase Two when it was released in December 2015, but this project is believed to have come later. In retrospect, however, "Rock and Roll Love Affair" is the album's second single.

Background

While specific recording dates are not known, it is assumed to have been recorded in December 2011, or January 2012, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota.^{[citation needed]} Horn overdubs took place in late January 2012.

The lyrics make mention of "When Stars Collide", the title of a track by Andy Allo from her album Superconductor, and it can be interpreted that the song's lyrics refer to a relationship between Prince and background vocalist Andy Allo.^[3]

Nick DeRiso review of the song stated it includes repeated synth motifs combining parts of the main hook from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "3rd Stone from the Sun" (a.k.a. "Third Stone from the Sun", written by Jimi Hendrix, from the 1967 album Are You Experienced), and Prince's own "Take Me with U".^[3]

On January 6, 2013, a 5:42 remix of the song was streamed on the 3rd Eye Girl YouTube channel. The same remix dubbed "Remix7" was made available to download on the 3rdEyeGirl.com website on February 5, 2013.^[4]

The same track retitled "Rocknroll Loveaffair" is the second track on Prince's 39th studio album Hitnrun Phase Two. It premiered on several Clear Channel Communications radio stations and iHeartRadio.com two months earlier, initially as "RNR Affair".^[5]

Track listing

"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Radio Edit) – 4:01
"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Original Mix) – 5:25
"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Jamie Lewis Club Mix) – 7:40
"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Jamie Lewis Stripped Down mix) – 6:48
"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Jamie Lewis Club Radio Edit) – 3:35
"Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Jamie Lewis Stripped Down Radio Edit) – 3:41

Charts

Chart performance for "Rock and Roll Love Affair"
Chart (2012)	Peak position
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[6]	22
US R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales (Billboard)	7
UK Singles Chart^[7]	121

References

^ "Prince Debuts New Track 'RNR Affair,' Retro Hairdo - SPIN".
^ "Single: Rock And Roll Love Affair - Prince Vault". princevault.com.
^ ^a ^b DeRiso, Nick (March 10, 2018). "Prince Celebrates a 'Rock and Roll Love Affair,' or Maybe Not". Diffuser.fm.
^ "3rdEyeGirl.com Prince website downloads and streaming". Goldies Parade.
^ "Rocknroll Loveaffair - Prince Vault". princevault.com.
^ "Prince Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ "Prince Songs – Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography – Music VF, US & UK hits charts". www.musicvf.com.

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1970s	"Soft and Wet" "Just as Long as We're Together" "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
1980s	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" "Still Waiting" "Sexy Dancer" "Uptown" "Dirty Mind" "Do It All Night" "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" "Controversy" "Let's Work" "Do Me, Baby" "1999" "Little Red Corvette" "Delirious" "Let's Pretend We're Married" "When Doves Cry" "Let's Go Crazy" "Purple Rain" "I Would Die 4 U" "Take Me with U" "Paisley Park" "Raspberry Beret" "Pop Life" "America" "Kiss" "Mountains" "Anotherloverholenyohead" "Girls & Boys" "Sign "O" the Times" "If I Was Your Girlfriend" "U Got the Look" "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" "Alphabet St." "Glam Slam" "I Wish U Heaven" "Batdance" "Partyman" "The Arms of Orion" "Scandalous!"
1990s	"The Future" "Thieves in the Temple" "New Power Generation" "Gett Off" "Cream" "Diamonds and Pearls" "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" "Insatiable" "Thunder" "Sexy MF" "My Name Is Prince" "7" "Damn U" "The Morning Papers" "Pink Cashmere" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Peach" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "Letitgo" "Space" "Purple Medley" "I Hate U" "Gold" "Dinner with Delores" "Betcha by Golly Wow!" "The Holy River" "The Truth" "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"
2000s	"U Make My Sun Shine" (with Angie Stone) "When Will We B Paid?" (with Audio Stepchild) "Supercute" "The Work, pt. 1" "Days of Wild" "Controversy (Live in Hawaii)" "Musicology" "Cinnamon Girl" "S.S.T." "Te Amo Corazón" "Black Sweat" "Fury" "Guitar" "F.U.N.K." "Dance 4 Me"
2010s	"Rocknroll Loveaffair" "Breakfast Can Wait" "Fallinlove2nite" "Breakdown" "This Could B Us" "Free Urself"
Promotional singles	"When You Were Mine" "Erotic City" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Love Sign" (with Nona Gaye) "Somebody's Somebody" "It's About That Walk" "Call My Name" "The Song of the Heart"
Internet downloads	"Guitar (original "demo" version)"
New Power Generation	"Get Wild" "The War" "Come On"
EPs	The Beautiful Experience NYC 1999: The New Master
Other songs	"I Feel for You" "Partyup" "Private Joy" "International Lover" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" "The Beautiful Ones" "Computer Blue" "Darling Nikki" "Baby I'm a Star" "17 Days" "Around the World in a Day" "Sometimes It Snows in April" "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" "Starfish and Coffee" "Adore" "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" "I Can't Make U Love Me" "La, La, La Means I Love U" "One of Us" "Everyday Is a Winding Road" "A Case of U" "Crimson and Clover" "Moonbeam Levels"

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