Prince was worried "Purple Rain" sounded like Journey song, band member says

LOS ANGELES -- A member of the rock band Journey says that before "Purple Rain" was released, Prince made a call to him, CBS Los Angeles reports.

"I'm afraid that I might have taken too many of the chord progressions from your song 'Faithfully' and I'm a little concerned that," Prince told Jonathan Cain during the 1983 call, according to Cain. "If you want me to change it, I will."

Cain, who wrote the iconic hit "Faithfully," said Prince was worried because "there were similarities there."

"But," Cain said, "I don't think harmonically or melodically there was anything to worry about."

Rather, he says he was actually flattered.

"It just showed what a classy guy he was and that he cared that much," he said.

Cain is still one of the mainstays of Journey and is on tour with the band.

He says he knew Prince had been sick. Even though an exact cause of death hasn't been determined, he says he believes it was an accident.

"You do anything to block the pain and sometimes you're not counting and it just overwhelms you," he said.

Journey recently played "Purple Rain" at one of their shows he said as a tribute to a legend.

"He died suddenly but his music is eternal," he said.

Cain said after he gave Prince his blessing to move forward with "Purple Rain," Prince gave him front row tickets to a show where he threw a tambourine out to him. He said, to this day, it is still one of his most prized possessions.