Purple Rain is an album by the American artist Prince and his band The Revolution, released in 1984 as the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The record fuses funk, rock, pop and soul and is regarded as one of the highlights of Prince's career. Well-known tracks include "When Doves Cry", "Let's Go Crazy", "I Would Die 4 U" and the title track "Purple Rain". The music combines exuberant production with emotional depth and showed Prince as a songwriter, guitarist and performer. The album made him one of the biggest artists of the 1980s.