Matt Thorne

Prince (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the Great Man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571273263
• Artikelnr.: 38220216

Autorenporträt

Matt Thorne has published five adult novels to widespread critical acclaim, co-edited the anthology All Hail the New Puritans, and is a regular reviewer for the Independent on Sunday.

Inhaltsangabe

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 I 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 Strip 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 I Gotta Do Is Sell a Million and I Can
Quit . . .’ 
27 Wasted Kisses . . . 
28 . . . And Missed Opportunities 
29 Join My Club 
30 New Directions in Music 
31 True Funk Soldier 
32 Come 2 My House (Part 2) 
33 21 Nights in London: A Fan’s Notes 
34 Gigolos Get Lonely Too (Part 3) 
35 An Entirely New Galaxy Awaits . . . 
36 Ending Endlessly 
Epilogue: Living Out Loud 
Afterword to the American Edition 
Acknowledgements 
Bibliography 
Notes 
Illustration Credits 
General Index
Index of Works by Prince 
About the Author