

5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chartīetween then and now, Steve Lukather put an incredible guitar solo in the middle and David Williams, who played all over ‘Billie Jean Is Not My Lover,’ played on this.


But Sandy and I rushed to the studio anyway, thinking ‘what if he comes, what are we going to show him. Anyway, me being one of the more honest people you’ll ever meet, I immediately call Prince and tell him what I had written and how and he, against everybody’s thinking he wouldn’t, came down and played on this song! My intuitions are usually right and since he told me he was doing the video of ‘Little Red Corvette’ that day, and since I know videos and films always take a lot longer than anybody thinks, I didn’t think he’d show up. “Right after I got married, I heard this wonderful song Prince had done called ‘Little Red Corvette,’ and as soon as I heard it I went, ‘Boy, I love that.’ And I just started humming to myself, and in a matter of minutes, I had hummed along a very different melody than what Prince had done. “Stand Back” is Track 6 on The Wild Heart, following “Nightbird” and preceding “I Will Run to You.” About the Song
