Purple Rain

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 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:

    “Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
    It fell upon a little western flower,
    Before, milk-white; now purple with love’s wound:
    And maidens call it “love-in-idleness.””
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)