CONTENTS New York and California Luckily for Prince, his older stepsister Sharon, a stepsister on his fathers side, was already living in Manhattan. Not only did she take him in when he showed up on her doorstep, she promised to help him get a record deal. Sharon had a friend who managed a group and […]
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CONTENTS Life in the Basement Prince started in his first group as a way to compete with his older stepbrother, Duane. Prince and Duane were both in the same grade at school. My older brother was the basketball and football star, Prince told Robert Hillburn of the Los Angeles Times. He always had all the […]
CONTENTS And the Rain Came Down In 1983 Michael Jacksons music was consistently played on the radio, with the release of his album Thriller. The big hits Billie Jean and Beat It had reached many new fans, so many that he sold more albums than any performer ever had before. I dont care what they […]
CONTENTS 96 Marvin Gaye had some ideas about the relationship between religion, romance and sex. His biographer David Ritz reports the following remark from Gaye upon meeting the teenage woman who became his wife, and would obsess his work from the hyper-erotic Lets Get It On until the end of his life: I saw her […]
Prince: A Pop Lifet CONTENTS 95 Controversy
CONTENTS 94 to remedy that with the second album. I wanted a hit album. It was for radio rather than for me, and it got a lot of people interested in my music. But it wasnt the kind of audience you really want. They only come around to check you out when you have another […]
CONTENTS 93 In concert, Uptown would be delivered as a final, audience-binding encore. The shows are remembered as a complete, carnal pot-pourri of mutated pop sexuality with a real edge of hunger. These kids from the middle of nowhere were making people sit up and show provincial weirdness some respect. Dirty Mind was a mission, […]
CONTENTS 67 even thought of I knew his first wife, as much as I could being a kid. Soon, there were further connections with the Nelsons, one of them nurtured by the church; the Nelsons, like many black families, were practising Seventh Day Adventists, and so was Mrs Andersons husband, Fred. But also, there was […]
Yo, Little Sister By Staff Rolling Stone Okay, so they haven’t got the same cheekbones, but Tyka Nelson is Prince’s only sibling (he’s got several stepbrothers and stepsisters). And now she’s following in his high-heeled footsteps, recording her first album in Minneapolis. But little big brother Prince won’t be producing, writing or even singing on […]