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Prince: Controversy (Warner Bros. BSK 3601)

Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, January 1982

CONTROVERSY IS a presumptuous title for an album, but it's in keeping with Prince's tactics of provocation. Prince, in his early twenties, is a musician who relishes outrage.

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