--- title: Prince's Revolution Band Reuniting For Shows description: The band played with Prince in the beginning of his career, but did not earn their name until they were featured on the album, Purple Rain. canonical: https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-27T15:07:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:54.058Z og:title: Prince's Band The Revolution Is Reuniting for Tribute Shows og:description: The band played with Prince in the beginning of his career, but did not earn their name until they were featured on the album, Purple Rain. og:url: https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a4e8b0c20f4df58/698890d5f887dc6dbee959e4/prince-and-the-revolution.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3543 og:image:height: 1993 og:image:alt: Prince og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince's Band The Revolution Is Reuniting for Tribute Shows twitter:description: The band played with Prince in the beginning of his career, but did not earn their name until they were featured on the album, Purple Rain. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a4e8b0c20f4df58/698890d5f887dc6dbee959e4/prince-and-the-revolution.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince's Band The Revolution Is Reuniting for Tribute Shows by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 27, 2016 3:07 PM UTC  Prince and The Revolution perform on stage at Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Aug. 17, 1986. Prince and The Revolution perform on stage at Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Aug. 17, 1986.Rob Verhorst—Redferns/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 27, 2016 3:07 PM UTC The Revolution is coming and Prince fans could not be more excited. In the wake of [Prince’s death](http://time.com/4303558/prince-dead-paisley-park-57/?iid=sr-link1) on April 21, his former backing band, The Revolution has decided to reunite to play a series of concerts as a tribute to their fallen leader. In a video posted to bass player Brown Mark’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/officialbrownmarkfanpage/?fref=nf), Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin announced that, “after spending days together grieving Prince,” the band, who disbanded in 1986, had decided to “do some shows.” The band played with Prince in the beginning of his career, but did not earn their name until they were featured on the album, _Purple Rain_. They also worked with the musical icon on _1999_, _Around The World In A Day_ and _Parade._ The Revolution helped make some of [Prince’s biggest hits](http://time.com/4303780/prince-best-songs/?iid=sr-link1), including “Little Red Corvette” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” Over the years the band had several line-ups, but the concerts are likely to feature Mark, Melvoin, keyboard players Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink, and drummer Bobby Z. While no dates have been announced, in the video Melvoin added: “We’ll be there soon.” Watch the video below: \[H/T [Okayplayer](http://www.okayplayer.com/news/the-revolution-are-reuniting-and-playing-some-shows-in-honor-of-prince.html) \] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/"},"headline":"Prince's Band The Revolution Is Reuniting for Tribute Shows","datePublished":"2016-04-27T15:07:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:54.058Z","description":"Let's go crazy","url":"https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Prince","Revolution"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a4e8b0c20f4df58/698890d5f887dc6dbee959e4/prince-and-the-revolution.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a4e8b0c20f4df58/698890d5f887dc6dbee959e4/prince-and-the-revolution.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prince","caption":"Prince","creditText":"Rob Verhorst—Redferns/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4309374/princes-band-the-revolution-is-reuniting-for-tribute-shows/","name":"Prince's Band The Revolution Is Reuniting for Tribute Shows"}}]}] ```