66K views · 2.9K reactions | From "Dirty Mind" to "Diamonds and Pearls" to "Musicology, Apple Music has created a special playlist to revisit the major moments in Prince's creative evolution: https://Prince.lnk.to/essentials | Prince | Facebook

On February 21, 1981, Prince made his debut on Saturday Night Live, playing the song "Partyup" from his third album, "Dirty Mind." “I was blown away,” said Jean Doumanian, the show’s associate producer. “He was just the most original act I had seen in a long time.” | Prince

43 Years Ago Today, on February 21, 1981, Prince appeared on Saturday Night Live and performed the song Partyup from his album Dirty Mind. And got away with dropping the F bomb on national TV. Partyup was originally written by Morris Day who had written the song "a lot slower and funkier", but Prince wanted the track for his own and also to change it up. Morris recalls, "You know what? I didn’t like it as much as the direction I was going in. He kind of took it to a funk-rock kind of thing. That