Prince famously wrote an entire album for Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster, Batman. But the legendary singer and musician had a much deeper history with the superhero. He was a fan of the 1966 Batman TV series. And its theme song was the very showtime melody he played on the piano.

Prince playing the piano
Prince playing the pianoforte | Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Prince started playing the piano as a child

Prince was undoubtedly one of the most talented singers and musicians of his fourth dimension. He played the piano, guitar, and drums and wrote chart-topping, award-winning songs like "Imperial Rain" and "1999."

Prince'south musical prowess came from his musician father, John Nelson, who played pianoforte in a jazz band. Nelson moved out of their domicile when Prince was seven-years-old. But he left behind a piano that the immature artist and so skillful on every day. Eventually, Prince moved into his aunt's house. And when he couldn't bring the pianoforte, he constitute new instruments to play.

"My first pulsate set was a box full of newspapers," Prince recalled in a 1983 Rolling Stone interview. "At 13, I went to live with my aunt. She didn't accept room for a piano, so my begetter bought me an electric guitar, and I learned how to play."

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Prince's first piano melody was the 'Batman' theme vocal

The 1966 Batman series was a huge striking in its fourth dimension. The ABC one-act starred Adam West and Burt Ward as the dynamic duo and followed the superhero team on outlandish missions against villains like Cesar Romero's Joker and Frank Gorshin's Riddler.

The show'due south opening song, "Batman'due south Theme," was written by Neal Hefti and had a catchy, spy movie-like guitar claw. The music was infectious, and it mesmerized a 7-yr-sometime Prince.

In his conversation with Rolling Stone, Prince revealed that "Batman's Theme" was the melody he used to teach himself how to play the piano. And in a later interview with Oprah Winfrey, the artist strummed the theme when Winfrey asked him if he remembered his showtime song on the piano.

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He fabricated a 'Batman' album in 1989

In the late '80s, Prince was stopping charts with albums like "Sign O' the Times" and "Purple Pelting". So when the large-budget Michael Keaton Batman movie was in the works, producers pushed for Prince to make its music.

Because the movie's director, Tim Burton, was a huge Prince fan, he wanted to continue the celebrated artist out of the commerciality of the projection. Simply when producers insisted, Burton gave in.

"Now, here is this guy, Prince, who was one of my favorites," Burton told Rolling Stone. "I had but gone to see two of his concerts in London, and I felt they were like the all-time concerts I'd ever seen. OK. So. They're maxim to me, these record guys, 'it needs this and that,' and they give you this whole thing near information technology's an expensive movie, so you demand it."

"And what happens is, you get engaged in this world, and and so there's no way out," he continued. "There'due south as well much money. In that location's this guy you respect and is practiced and has got this thing going. Information technology got to a betoken where in that location was no turning back."

It seems like Prince may take realized what was going on. Considering in a 1990 chat with Rolling Stone, the artist revealed that he tried his best to piece of work with Burton's ideas for the picture show. "At that place was then much pressure on [director] Tim [Burton]," Prince said, "that for the whole picture, I but said, 'Yes, Mr. Burton, what would you like?'"