Matt thorne prince biography purple

  • This book is NOT a real biography in that it covers very little of Prince's personal life, the book focuses mainly on his musical career.
  • Prince's purple reign is unpicked here with a true fan's obsession, but we're no closer to knowing the real man, writes Mark Ellen.
  • Acclaimed British novelist and critic Matt Thorne draws on years of research and dozens of interviews with Prince's intimate associates (many of whom have never.

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    Prince

    List of Illustrations&#;

    Prologue: Come 2 My House (Part 1)

    1 Justifications from a Mamma-Jamma

    2 The Business of Music

    3 Wouldn&#;t You Love to Love Me?

    4 Still Waiting

    5 Creating Uptown

    6 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 1) 73 7 Royal Jewels&#;

    8 Nikki&#;s Castle&#;

    9 There Aren&#;t Any Rules&#;

    10 New Position&#;

    11 Roadhouse Garden and Songs for Susannah&#;

    12 The Story of a Man inom Am Not&#;

    13 Rebirth of the Flesh&#;

    14 Crystal Ball . . .&#;

    15 . . . Or Sign o&#; the Times?&#;

    16 For Those of U on Valium . . .&#;

    17 Spooky and All That He Crawls for . . .&#;

    18 Cross the Line&#;

    19 Dance with the Devil&#;

    20 What&#;s Wrong with Graffiti Bridge?&#;

    21 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 2)&#;

    22 Playing remsa Pool with Vanessa&#;

    23 The Chains of Turin&#;

    24 Part I: Introducing the Friction Years&#;

    25 Part 2: &#;It Was Just About Needing to Get It

    Done . . .&#;&#;

    26 Part 3: &#;All inom Gotta Do Is Sell a Million and inom Can

    Quit . . .&#;&#;

    27 Wasted Kisses

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    Prince

    February 25,
    First of all, this book is worth owning just for that beautiful cover.

    This book - like the David Bowie Book I read before it, was billed (by a quote from Alexis Hot Chip on the back) as a Revolution In The Head for Prince. I was excited by this, but also a bit sceptical. Prince has released so many records, has so much unreleased music, and has also spent twenty years making records you're not sure you want to hear, let alone hear a detailed track by track breakdown of.

    Like a lot of Prince fans, I stopped bothering to buy his records after he changed his name to Symbol and got into his five year barney with Warner Brothers over ownership of his music (a year after he'd signed a massive deal giving them ownership of his music.)

    It wasn't that I was bothered about him turning up at ceremonies with slave written on his face. It wasn't the rich arab decor in the soft porn videos. It wasn't the bouffant sex-twin dancers. It wasn't the crappy rappers in matching

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    Prince

    Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as 'Purple Rain', 'Sign o' the Times' and 'Parade' regularly feature in Best Ever Album polls, Prince is still, as he ever was, an enigma. His live performances are legendary (21 Nights at the O2 in ) and while recent releases have been modestly successful at best, his influence on urban music, and R'n'B in particular, has never been more evident. The Minneapolis Sound can now be heard everywhere.

    Matt Thorne's Prince, through years of research and interviews with ex-Revolution members such as Wendy and Lisa, is an account of a pop maverick whose experiments with rock, funk, techno and jazz revolutionised pop. With reference to every song, released and unreleased, over 35 years of recording, Prince will stand for years to come as the go-to book on the Great Man.

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