Purple Rain may refer to:
- Purple Rain (film), a 1984 film starring the musician Prince
- Purple Rain (album), the soundtrack album for the film
- "Purple Rain" (song), the title track of the album
- Purple Rain Tour, Prince's 1984-1985 concert tour
- Purple Rain (album), the soundtrack album for the film
- Purple Rain Protest, the name given to an anti-apartheid protest held in Cape Town in September 1989
- Purple Rain (drink), an alcoholic cocktail
- Purple Rain, a trademark and flavor of MD 20/20, a Low-end fortified wine
Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or rain:
“Now I am powerless
to draw back
for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
colour of the purple of the flowers,
cyclamen-coloured and dark.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)