Editing Lovesexy (section)

== Recording ==
The opening track, "Eye No", was recorded with the full band ([[Miko Weaver]] on guitar, [[Levi Seacer, Jr.]] on bass, [[Doctor Fink]] and Boni Boyer on keyboards, [[Eric Leeds]] on saxophone, [[Atlanta Bliss]] on trumpet and [[Sheila E.]] on drums). Sheila E., in fact, plays drums on several tracks and sings backup, along with Boyer. Leeds and Bliss provide horns on most tracks, and [[Ingrid Chavez]] provides the intro to "Eye No".<ref name=":0" />{{sfn|Hahn|2003|p=127}} The album is designed to be heard in the context of a continuous sequence: [[Gramophone record|LP]] pressings split the album in two side-long tracks, without visual bands to indicate individual songs.<ref>{{Citation |title=Prince - Lovesexy |date=1988 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/139427-Prince-Lovesexy |access-date=2025-04-11 |language=en}}</ref> Similarly, early [[CD]] copies of ''Lovesexy'' have the entire album in sequence as a single track, though some later editions have it as nine separate tracks.<ref>{{Citation |title=Prince - Lovesexy |date=1988-05-10 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/231563-Prince-Lovesexy |access-date=2025-04-11 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Prince - Lovesexy |date=2021-02-04 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/905464-Prince-Lovesexy |access-date=2025-04-11 |language=en}}</ref> ''Lovesexy'' is also the first Prince album to replace the pronoun "I" with a stylized "👁" symbol, commonly Romanized as "eye" (i.e. "Eye No"), in both song titles and [[liner notes]]; the symbol would not be completely adopted, however, until 1992's ''[[Love Symbol Album]]''.