"Private Joy" is a song by American musician Prince from his 1981 album Controversy, released as the B-side of the single "Do Me, Baby".
The song ends with guitar riffs and feedback from Prince, and segues into "Ronnie, Talk to Russia", the next track on Controversy.
[1][2] American singer La Toya Jackson covered this song for her 1984 album Heart Don't Lie.
According to Jackson, Prince's publishing company, Controversy Music, "approached me about recording songs of his that hadn't gone over too big the first time around.
Though "Private Joy" was Jackson's favorite song from Heart Don't Lie, it was never released as a single outside Japan.