“Can You Make it Rain Harder?”
Remembering the Super Bowl when Prince taught us all to dance in the rain.
In 40 years, it had never once rained during a Super Bowl.
“The morning of the game, I opened the curtains of my hotel room,” recalled Bruce Rodgers, production designer for the NFL halftime show, describing the events of that day in 2007: “It was like a scene from Moby Dick.”
The relentless downpour was terrible news for a production crew responsible for delivering a flawless live outdoor performance of epic proportions, not to mention four separate live electric guitars for the King of Paisley Park himself- the legendary performer, virtuoso guitarist, and prodigious songwriter, Prince.
“Put me on the phone with Prince,” said television and live event producer Don Mischer, rallying his production team later that stormy morning.
“Now, I want you know that it’s raining,” Mischer told Prince on the phone.
“Yes, it’s raining,” answered the performer.
“And are you okay?” Mischer wanted to know.
The Purple One, the artist formerly and forever to be known as Prince, had only one question:
“Can you make it rain harder?”
