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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 2007) 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 th

Prince

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 November 2013
      ISBN-13 9780571232482
      978-0571232482
      ISBN-10 0571232485
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      Book Synopsis

      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 2007) 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 th

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