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Published July 30, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Music journalist Andrea Swensson teamed up with MPR news host Tom Weber to create an in-depth audio documentary that looks at the legacy of Purple Rain<\/em>, thirty years after the release of the movie. The pair toured First Avenue and interviewed Bobby Z (the drummer for Prince\u2019s band the Revolution) and Prince\u2019s co-star in the movie, Apollonia.<\/span>\u00a0Aired on the Current this last Sunday night, this musical history<\/a> explores how a group of Minneapolis musicians changed rock and roll around the world.<\/p>\n

This postcard–from the Hennepin County Libraries Special Collections–shows the building formerly known as the Greyhound Bus Terminal. This image was created in the late 1930s, long before the music world imagined First Avenue. Thanks to citizen-researcher Rita Yeada for finding and digitizing this image.<\/p>\n

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