Prince and Sheila Escovedo met in 1978 at a concert, where she was performing with her percussionist father, Pete Escovedo. After the show, Prince approached Sheila, saying that he and a bandmate were just “fighting over which one of [them] would be the first to be [her] husband.”

(Neither of them ever were, though she did have a brief relationship with Prince in the mid-80s, while he was seeing the twin sister of The Revolution’s Wendy Melvoin.) In 1984, they joined forces for Purple Rain, which (among a slew of other impressive rankings) was labeled “the best soundtrack of all time” by Vanity Fair in 2007.

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