The Circus continues and Prince is ready to conclude the Lovesexy tour. The most ambitious tour of his career was not planned well logistically and lost money. Prince is poised to take out his frustrations on his band, his management team and anyone else who might tell him who he is supposed to be as an artist. Maybe Prince is sabotaging himself, but as it stood, Prince was still being held up as the genius of the moment. Warner Bros. needed a soundtrack for a movie that pit a mysterious eccentric with a cape against his charismatically devilish archenemy. Luckily for the studio, there was a musician who knew what it was like to be both: Prince. “I said, ‘You, the Bat, Batman,’” recalls his creative partner Albert Magnoli, the director of Purple Rain. “And he went, ‘Cool.’” Prince’s former manager Bob Cavallo would take issue with how the news was delivered, but Prince signed on nonetheless.