New Power Generation: Prince's backing band on keeping his music alive
'We try to represent the music in way that, if Prince was watching us, he’d want to get on the stage.' Picture: AP Photo/Chris O'Meara
Sharing a stage with Prince was a thrill, an honour and an adventure, says musician Morris Hayes, who for 20 years led the pop maverick’s band, the New Power Generation.
Once Prince got going, you never knew what you were in for, he says. Hayes recalls a period in the 1990s when Prince would blaze through a concert and then stay up all night performing at an “after-party” for fans (as he did after headlining the RDS in Dublin in 1992).
