Let's Go Crazy

The song was also notable for opening with a funeral-like organ solo with Prince giving the "eulogy" for "this thing called life." The introduction's words are overlapped with each other on the single version. The song climaxes with a distinctive drum machine pattern and then features a heavy guitar lead, electronic drums, bass and whirring synthesizers and a climatic drum outro. The song's percussion was programmed with a Linn LM-1 drum machine, an instrument frequently used in many of Prince's songs. The song is also known for its two guitar solos both performed by Prince. ==Track listing==

7" Warner Bros. / 7-29216 (US) • "Let's Go Crazy" (edit) – 3:46 • "Erotic City" (edit) – 3:53 7" Warner Bros. / W2000 (UK) • "Let's Go Crazy" (edit) – 3:46 • "Take Me with U" – 3:51 12" Warner Bros. / 0-20246 (US) • "Let's Go Crazy" (Special Dance Mix) – 7:35 • "Erotic City ("make love not war Erotic City come alive")" – 7:24 12" Warner Bros. / W2000T (UK) • "Let's Go Crazy" (Special Dance Mix) – 7:35 • "Take Me with U" – 3:51 • "Erotic City ("make love not war Erotic City come alive")" – 7:24 ==Personnel==

Credits are sourced from Duane Tudahl, Benoît Clerc, Guitarcloud and Mix. • Prince – lead and backing vocals, electric lead guitar, piano (Special Dance Mix), Linn LM-1, tambourine • Wendy Melvoin – electric rhythm guitar, backing vocals • Lisa Coleman – Oberheim OB-SX, backing vocals • Doctor Fink – Oberheim OB-Xa, backing vocals • Brown Mark – bass guitar, backing vocals • Bobby Z. – Linn LM-1, Simmons SDSV, Pearl SY-1 Syncussion, cymbals ==Charts==

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In 2007, Stephanie Lenz, a writer and editor from Gallitzin, Pennsylvania made a home video of her 13-month-old son dancing to "Let's Go Crazy" and posted a 29-second video on the video-sharing site YouTube. Four months after the video was originally uploaded, Universal Music Group, which owned the copyrights to the song, ordered YouTube to remove the video enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lenz notified YouTube immediately that her video was within the scope of fair use, and demanded that it be restored. YouTube complied after six weeks—not two weeks, as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—to see whether Universal planned to sue Lenz for infringement. Lenz then sued Universal Music in California for her legal costs, claiming the music company had acted in bad faith by ordering removal of a video that represented fair use of the song. Later in August 2008, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, of San Jose, California, ruled that copyright holders cannot order a deletion of an online file without determining whether that posting reflected "fair use" of the copyrighted material. In 2015 the court affirmed the holding that Universal was required to consider fair use before sending its initial takedown request. ==See also==