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The Wit & Wisdom Of Prince Rogers Nelson
Comment by Bill Holdship, Creem, July 1985
HE'S DEFINITELY AN American superstar – one of the most important of the '80s – and his ascent still appears to be just above ground ...
Prince: The Best of the Patchy Years
Guide by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, February 1997
IN MANY WAYS the ultimate ‘80s self-made man, Prince spent the decade inventing and reinventing himself. The scope of the man’s ambition was mindboggling; the ...
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Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 November 1979
IT MUST BE A daunting prospect for anyone to make his or her performing debut, save for a couple of hometown Minneapolis tuneups, before an ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 24 February 1981
His album, titled Dirty Mind, has been banned by radio stations across America because of its lyric content but Prince aims to promote it on ...
Live Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 1981
WHO COULD resist a handsome young black gentleman, dressed like a stripper, who sings songs celebrating such unlikely topics as incest and oral copulation? ...
Prince: A Dirty Mind Comes Clean
Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, June 1981
WHO IS THE REAL Prince, anyway? The flashy, high-energy black pop star with the Stratocaster wearing Iggy Pop's underwear? Or the pleasant, soft-spoken fellow who ...
Prince: Strutting With The New Soul Monarch
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 6 June 1981
THIS FELLOW sitting across the table from me in an uptown Manhattan Holiday Inn room may be a Prince but he ain't no Charlie. ...
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 13 June 1981
HISTORY SHOWS us the horrible roster of agonising tortures which the human mind has devised in pursuit of the ultimate cautionary pain: bodies roasted over braziers, heads ...
Prince: Controversy (Warner Bros)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 14 November 1981
SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME... ...
Whites Are Missing Good Rock By Blacks
Overview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 15 November 1981
IF YOU LISTEN to Baltimore's album-oriented rock (AOR) radio stations or any of dozens of similar stations around the country, you're unlikely to hear any ...
Prince: Controversy (Warner Bros.)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 21 November 1981
THERE IS only one message on a Prince record. The message is the massage, or vice-versa, the politick of the dick. Fortunately, Prince's unilateral (he ...
Prince: Controversy (Warner Bros. BSK 3601)
Review by 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 ...
Prince: Warner Theater, Washington DC
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, April 1982
DRY ICE smoke drifted across the darkened stage of Washington's Warner Theater, as an unreleased tape played of Prince singing the double orgasm lyrics of ...
Touring Talent Sacrifices Luxury For Livelihood
Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 5 June 1982
Revert To '60s Packaging ...
Review by Laura Fissinger, Musician, January 1983
ONCE UPON a time, Prince was assessed thus: a (modestly) gifted dance floor sexmeister; a (very) occasional visitor to profundity and innovation; and (mostly) a ...
Prince: 1999 (Warner Bros 1-223720)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 January 1983
Royal Flush ...
Overview by Paul Yamada, Coolest Retard, March 1983
THE PAST FEW years have brought much that is new or at least different to contemporary black music, and though both white and black tastes ...
Prince, The Time, Vanity 6: Civic Center, Baltimore MD
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 7 March 1983
Prince sustains dramatic opening with music that obliterates rules ...
Prince: A Second Coming Thru Purple Haze
Report by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 2 April 1983
A MONTH ago, in Minneapolis, mecca of absence, I had time on my hands – all over my body, actually – to consider the idea ...
Prince: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 16 April 1983
SEX BEAT ...
Time For The Prince Who Will Be King
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, Creem, May 1983
HALFWAY THROUGH the concert, the long legged blonde keyboard player has stripped down to her underwear. The occasion is Prince's underground classic, 'Head', in which ...
Prince: Someday Your Prince Will Come
Essay by Carol Cooper, The Face, June 1983
THE THING TO BEAR IN MIND is that Prince does not do interviews. He certainly didn't do this one, nor any of a dozen others ...
Eleganza: The Best-Dressed List
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, September 1983
THERE ARE absolutes in fashion. For instance, flare-legged trousers are absolutely more flattering to the vast majority of people than straight-legged trousers, since they make ...
André Cymone: I Taught Prince Everything
Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 12 November 1983
Saucy bass player's shock story ...
Profile by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 19 July 1984
That's what they call Prince back home in America. And not without reason: he's a huge star and his on-stage antics are just a little ...
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984
THE PROBLEM with major league soul is not a lack of 'good' music. What has been lost is the ability, possibly the desire, to make ...
First Avenue is New 2nd Family, Apollonia Says
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 5 August 1984
MOST OF Purple Rain takes place in an actual nightclub in downtown Minneapolis. In the film, the First Avenue club becomes a self-contained world, a ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 30 August 1984
PRINCE loves to pout. To press together his moist, full lips while throwing a sulky, sensuous stare with his big eyes. Even more, he loves ...
Prince & the Revolution: Purple Rain (Warner Bros.)
Review by James Hunter, Musician, September 1984
Stylistic Seizures from the Love Laboratory: Prince Lets His Latest Out of the Bottle ...
Prince's Purple Rain: 'Scuse Me While I Get Some Popcorn
Report and Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, September 1984
PRINCE...IT'S A great name, isn't it? It's a great name for a dog. It's a great name for spaghetti on Wednesday night. It's a great ...
Purple Rain; starring: Prince, Morris Day, Apollonia (Warner Bros.)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 1 September 1984
So just whose tongue is in whose cheek! ...
Purple Rain Star Morris Day Goes It Alone
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 13 September 1984
Real-life rivalry with Prince leads to split ...
Prince: Detroit My Name Is Prince And I've Come To Play With You
Report by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 22 November 1984
Smoke bombs explode, fabulously exciting multi-coloured confetti rains from the rafters, The Revolution are playing 'Let's Go Crazy' and Prince is twirling round and round. ...
Prince & the Revolution: Spectrum, Philadelphia PA
Live Review by Kris Nicholson, The Morning Call, 24 November 1984
Prince's curious merging of the sensual and sublime ...
Prince & The Revolution: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit
Live Review by Bill Holdship, New Musical Express, 1 December 1984
IT TOOK The Star over 55 minutes to make his grand entrance following new paramour Sheila E's rhythmically exciting but lightweight opening set. The lights ...
Prince: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 February 1985
FOR PRINCE'S CONCERT It's A Reign Of Rock When a rock artist makes a movie, it's usually to express things that can't be conveyed in mere ...
USA for Africa: Record could raise millions for hungry
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 14 March 1985
"CHECK YOUR ego at the door." That was the message producer Quincy Jones sent to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross ...
Prince Unveils New Studio Album
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1985
Around the World in a Day should be out in April ...
Prince and the Revolution: Around The World In A Day (Paisley Park 925286-1)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 27 April 1985
PRINCE HAS Found God in a big way — and for God read Prince and his Search For Inner Peace. Clock the sleeve and you ...
Prince: Around the World in a Day
Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 4 May 1985
The Return Of The Acid Reign ...
Alexander O'Neal: Alexander the Great!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 28 May 1985
One of the most stylish albums so far released this year is the self-titled set from Alexander O'Neal. B&S checks out the singer's roots and ...
Prince: Around The World In A Day
Review by Max Bell, The Times, 1 June 1985
PRINCE, THE CURRENT court jester of American hippy soul, once wrote a song called 'Ronnie, Talk To Russia', a good message number that indicated this ...
USA For Africa: We Are The World (Columbia)
Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1985
OUCHLESS BAND-AID ...
Minneapolis: The Art of the Heart of the Country
Report by Laura Fissinger, Record, October 1985
IF YOU believe music comes from a state of mind rather than a state on the map, now's a good time for a look at ...
Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Look, November 1985
WHEN PRINCE decided that he didn't like Eddie Murphy making fun of his high-heeled boots, the rock star walked out in the middle of Murphy's ...
Report by John Morthland, High Fidelity, December 1985
The PMRC isn't only out to censor sex and violence. John Denver could be next. ...
The Glamorous Life: The Sheila E. Coverup
Interview by Steve Bloom, Record, December 1985
SOMEWHERE I read that Sheila E. was fed up with the lingerie look, yet here she is wearing a lacey white outfit that is "dressed ...
Records by Prince, The Judds et al
Review by Mary Harron, The Observer, 16 March 1986
Smokey Robinson: Smoke Signals (Tamla 6156TL); Prince: 'Kiss' (WEA W8751T 12 Inch); William Bell: Passion (WRC WIL-3001 US Import) ...
Prince: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 22 March 1986
GET A load of this guy. Five-foot-two in high heels, his tight black toreador pants stretch up to a fraction above his crack, hence a ...
Prince & the Revolution: Parade: Music From The Motion Picture Under The Cherry Moon (Paisley Park)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1986
THE PURPLE ONE'S FLOWER POWER ...
Prince: Parade (Original Soundtrack - Under The Cherry Moon)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 April 1986
I TOOK 'Kiss' as a signal that we were being ushered back into the compressed, airtight funkworld of Dirty Mind. Didn't flip over the song ...
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 24 April 1986
WHO BUT PRINCE fills us today with the kind of anticipation we once reserved for new work by Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling ...
Prince & The Revolution: Metro Dance Club, Boston MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 22 May 1986
Prince surprises Boston Club show emphasizes music, not spectacle ...
Prince & the Revolution: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Rowland, Billboard, 14 June 1986
LOS ANGELES' renovated deco showpiece proved an appropriate setting for the May 30 Prince concert. The 90-minute "warm-up" engagement for his U.S. tour — slated ...
Pepe Willie: "See, Me And Prince Had A Deal..."
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1986
IN THE MID-'70s, Pepe Willie — a New York writer, musician and producer — went into the Cook House Studio in Minneapolis with two teenaged ...
Thinking Of Babylon, Dreaming Of Prince
Essay by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1986
TO SOME, HE is The Kid. To others he is The Minneapolis Genius. To others still, he's That Guy Who Ripped Me Off On That Last Tour Playing Condensed Songs ...
Minneapolis Magic: The Jam and Lewis Story
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1 July 1986
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are currently the hottest producers in soul and here B&S goes back in time with the two men to discover ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986
"Sorry Lionel, but right now, we're busy with The Human League..." To turn down a job with Mr Richie these days you'd have to be ...
Prince & the Revolution: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 23 August 1986
ANY SELF-RESPECTING pop pundit at least had to try and witness the return of the Stiletto-Heeled Sex Dwarf — beg, borrow, blag, or like one ...
Prince: The Flesh And The Soul
Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 23 August 1986
Prince And The Revolution: Wembley Arena, London ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bruce Dessau, Blitz, September 1986
THE PRINCELY PROCEEDINGS commence with a scene of such steamily symbolic eroticism you almost expect the censor's stamp to come crashing through the screen. ...
Prince & The Revolution: Cobo Arena, Detroit
Live Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, October 1986
I'LL BE WITH YOU SHORTLY ...
Prince: Sign o' the Times (Warner Bros./Paisley Park)
Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 March 1987
Here's Prince for all seasons ...
Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 4 June 1987
Prince isn't a star, he's an event. And so is the release of his new double LP. Paolo Hewitt is let to the subterranean bunker ...
Prince: Sign 'O' The Times (Paisley Park 25577-1)
Review by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, July 1987
DESPITE ALL the hyped-up mystery and intrigue that the media machine swirls around him, like smoke around a Gene Kelly dance routine, the fact is ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Storm in a T-Shirt; Prince: Prince of Darkness
Report by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 1 August 1987
"RACIST" D'ARBY T-SHIRT ROW... DEMONIC PRINCE IS "SATAN'S TOOL"... STEVEN WELLS INVESTIGATES ...
Wendy & Lisa: Revolt Into Style
Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 15 August 1987
WENDY & LISA USED TO BE PART OF PRINCE'S REVOLUTION. NOW THEY'RE STORMING THE BARRICADES WITH A SOLO CAREER. PURPLE RAIN OR JUST A DAMP ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Imp of the Perverse' (Virgin Books), 1988
1987 WAS A comparatively low-profile year for Prince, a year that saw some of his greatest music on the double Sign 'O' The Times album ...
Prince: Lovesexy (Paisley Park)
Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 14 May 1988
"The best pop music does not reflect events so much as it absorbs them".– Greil Marcus on Sly Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On ...
Prince: Lovesexy (Paisley Park)
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 14 May 1988
LEXICON OF LOVE ...
Prince’s Crown Starts to Slip: Love Sexy
Review by David Toop, The Sunday Times, 22 May 1988
It is difficult these days to find a pop musician who enjoys general critical euphoria, but for the past few years Prince has escaped the ...
Prince: Lovesexy (Warner Bros./Paisley Park); The Black Album (unreleased)
Review by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1988
Taking It Back to the Streets ...
Sign O' The Times (Dir. Prince; Paisley Park Films)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 July 1988
Let the good times rock — Adam Sweeting finds brilliance abounds in Prince's latest film ...
Match of the Fey: Prince and Michael Jackson
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 13 July 1988
PRINCE BEGGED an interviewer seven years ago: "Just don’t compare me to Michael Jackson." Few could then have guessed there would ever be a need ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 26 July 1988
MINNEAPOLIS COMES to Broadway! Even in the wake of Wacko, Prince's latest show is something of an eyeball-popper. The 64-inch-high prodigy materialises from a gleaming ...
Prince & The Revolution: Camden Palace, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 6 August 1988
TWICE IN my life I've shouted "It's better than sex", and twice I've been wrong. First time I was chasin' Pop Rocks exploding candy with ...
Live Review by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 6 August 1988
HIGH PRIEST OF GLAM ...
Essay by Nick Kent, The Face, September 1988
If eighties pop was a cultural void, then Prince tried his hardest to fill it. Crossing barriers of race, gender and genre to capture the ...
Prince/Michael Jackson/Luther Vandross: Live at the Capital Centre
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Columbia Flier , 20 October 1988
BOTH PRINCE and Michael Jackson came to the Capital Centre last week for a showdown between the two reigning giants of rock'n'soul. Appearing in the ...
Apollonia: Out Of The Crimson Court
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 25 October 1988
AFTER HER co-starring role in Prince's Oscar winning Purple Rain and the disbanding of Apollonia 6, a three-piece lingerie-clad all-girl group, chances are that, like ...
Wendy & Lisa: Sisters Of The Revolution
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 4 March 1989
PRINCE'S FORMER SIDEKICKS, WHOSE NEW SINGLE,'ARE YOU MY MAYBE' IS SELDOM OFF THE MAKER TURNTABLE, THIS WEEK RELEASE THEIR SECOND ALBUM, LAYERED AND IMPOSSIBLY RICH ...
Mavis Staples: Children, It's A Brand New Day
Report and Interview by Jim Farber, Spin, April 1989
THE LATEST Prince protégé is not some 20-year-old babe done up in lingerie and stilettos. It's righteous, 48-year-old pop/gospel legend Mavis Staples: a woman holy ...
Mavis Staples: Time Waits For No One (Paisley Park)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989
NINETEEN EIGHTY nine has been a year for bumping into old friends, what with the spate of reissues, relaunched careers, and general rehabilitation. Back in ...
Prince: Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros.)
Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 June 1989
A funky soundtrack by Prince ...
Mavis Staples: My Prince Has Come
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
After years in the doldrums MAVIS STAPLES, one of the female voices is back. A phone call from Prince resulted in a new album Time ...
Prince: Batman (Warner Bros.); Mavis Staples: Time Waits for No One (Paisley Park)
Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1989
Batty Prince, Torn Between Good and Evil ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 25 November 1989
You know her as the legs-akimbo sex kitten playmate of Prince, the undisputed star of the Purple One's lascivious shows and a fine singer to ...
Cat Glover: Cat goes for the cream
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 December 1989
Adam Sweeting on why Prince's dancing sensation is aiming for stardom — without him ...
Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 1990
Take it to the bridge — Prince's funky graffiti ...
Prince: Stadion Feijenoord, Rotterdam
Live Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 9 June 1990
LAST WEEKEND, PRINCE'S 'NUDE' WORLD TOUR KICKED OFF IN STADION FEIJENOORD IN ROTTERDAM. JON WILDE WITNESSED THE SPECTACULAR, AS THE WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING SONG AND ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 June 1990
The Prince's new clothes ...
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 30 June 1990
His Royal Altogetherness: America's most famous surrogate Royal arrived in Britain last week to take up a 20-night residency in the country's arenas. His luggage contained ...
Essay by David Toop, The Face, July 1990
White Rock we know about, but why should the idea of Black Rock be so difficult to comprehend? When Prince says his current tour is rock'n'roll based, he ...
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Indeed you do... for the guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock. But it's considerably less for a life-size oil painting of Ozzy Osbourne. Adrian Deevoy examines ...
Prince: Select: The Best Of Prince 1979-1989
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Select, July 1990
I MET PRINCE ONCE. It was at the main airport in Los Angeles. Walking towards my flight I glanced over my shoulder and realised that, ...
Overview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, July 1990
He began making records as a control-fixated 18-year-old studio rat from Minneapolis. Ten albums later Prince had become the definitive pop icon of the '80s. ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 1 September 1990
EMPEROR'S NUDE CLOTHES ...
Burning His Bridges: Prince: Graffiti Bridge (Paisley Park) **
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Select, October 1990
THE FIRST SINGLE from Graffiti Bridge, 'Thieves In The Temple', compared to Prince's past endeavours, is no more than a nominally interesting B-side. And it ...
Prince: Music From The Graffiti Bridge
Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, October 1990
THE GRAFFITI BRIDGE of the title being Prince's scheduled-for-August-but-yet-to-be-finished feature film. ...
Essay by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 4 October 1990
RJ Smith on Living Colour and pop's buried history ...
Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 24 August 1991
A MILE OR so down Highway 5 from the Paisley Park studio complex, where Prince and his band New Power Generation are currently rehearsing the ...
Prince & The New Power Generation: Diamonds And Pearls (Paisley Park/Warner Brothers)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 5 October 1991
THERE WAS a time when Prince seemed to be the vital force acting on pop music's zeitgeist. A wily provocateur, the greatest singles artist of ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1991
THESE ARE TESTING times for little PR Nelson. His Graffiti Bridge movie, due out last autumn, has never been publicly shown, and the accompanying double ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Heath, The Face, December 1991
Apart from his music. Prince never gives much of himself away in public – or even in private. But over six strange days in Paisley ...
Prince and the New Power Generation: Sporthalle, Hamburg
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 20 June 1992
Prince and the New Power Generation arrive in Britain this week to play a record stint of Earl's Court. SIMON PRICE taught the great man ...
Prince: Nuremberg Power Generation
Report and Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 20 June 1992
There's a little guy in there somewhere… As PRINCE powers into Europe with yet another all-singing, all-dancing, all-peach sex-spectacle, experienced Prince-hound BETTY PAGE takes up ...
Prince & the New Power Generation: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 30 June 1992
GOOD OLD Prince, where would we be without him? In an industry that often seems filled with blandness and conformity there's the lil' fella in ...
Prince: The Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1992
"I DIDN'T really notice Prince till he walked through the schoolyard one day wearing just an open trench coat and a pair of underpants," says ...
Prince and The New Power Generation: 0{+>
Review by David Sinclair, Q, November 1992
APPARENTLY UNAFFECTED by his elevation to executive status at Warner Brothers Records, Prince bounces back with yet another 75 minutes' worth of music celebrating his ...
Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, December 1992
A SINGLE TITLED 'Sexy Motherfucker', and now a self-parodying rock soap opera with an androgynous sex symbol for a name? Clearly the new Vice President ...
Prince: Crazy Place, Crazy Guy
Report by Mat Snow, Q, December 1992
LIKE SO MUCH in life, the reality of Paisley Park proves a little different from the ad. Where is the laughing girl on the see-saw ...
The Jam & Lewis Story, Part 1: Flyte of Fantasy
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 29 December 1992
To mark the tenth anniversary of Jam & Lewis's ultra-successful Flyte Tyme Productions, Jeff Lorez flew to Minneapolis and spoke to Jimmy Jam for more than eight hours over two ...
Report and Interview by Mark Petracca, Creem, January 1993
As I reach the threshold of the mighty warrior, i feel a shudder pass through me. My self-worth is at stake. My shoes are too ...
Prince and The New Power Generation: The Sunrise Musical Theatre, Florida
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, June 1993
"Y'ALL MAKE ME SORRY I stayed away so long," Prince declared, as the opening night of his first American tour in five years reached a ...
My name is Prince (well it was)
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 July 1993
To criticise Prince is to reveal yourself as a musically illiterate Jason Donovan fan. But who is this workaholic, whose band call him 'sir' and ...
Prince & the New Power Generation: National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 July 1993
Funked up: The new PC Prince starts his British tour in fine style in Birmingham ...
Prince: Birmingham National Indoor Arena
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993
THE TINY FIGURE in silky lemon and black trouser-suit and Spanish heels is talking. ...
Mavis Staples: A Voice Like No Other...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1993
Times were tough for Mavis Staples in the years when she and her family didn't have a deal... and then along came Prince and signed ...
Live Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1993
THE MAN KNOWS no bounds. Having already performed a half hour show for the BBC that morning, Prince was intent on ending his European tour ...
Lenny Waronker: All In The Family
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1994
Warner Brothers President Lenny Waronker is not your Average Corporate Cheese ...
Prince Talks To Q: 'I Am Normal!'
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1994
Pleased to meet you... Hope you've guessed my name. For the first time since God alone knows when, the artist formerly known as Prince talks ...
Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums
Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994
Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...
Profile and Interview by Alan Light, Vibe, August 1994
The man who won't be Prince speaks at last about his new name, his new attitude and a new body of work we may never ...
Prince: Come (Warner Bros 9362-45700-2)
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 August 1994
WE COULD be forgiven for assuming that Prince — or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, as he's officially titled — is uninterested in subjects ...
Prince: Come (Warner Brothers 9362-45700-2/10tks/49mins/FP)
Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 August 1994
There's no getting round it. Prince's new album is, explicitly, all about eating pussy. Beavis & Butt-Head would explode. SIMON PRICE needed a good hosing ...
Prince: Come (Warner Bros.)/1-800-New-Funk (NPG/Bellmark)
Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 30 August 1994
IF YOU HEAR the sound of a gauntlet slapping the floor, it’s only the echo of Come (Warner Bros.) and 1-800-New-Funk (NPG/Bellmark) hitting the racks ...
Essay by David Toop, The Face, September 1994
David Toop listens to the old and the new and wonders which is which ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1994
OK, PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR A SHOCK. PRINCE'S new album – a last gasp from his 16-year career on Warner Brothers – is about sex. It ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Vox, September 1994
THIS IS THE last ever album to be released by 'Prince' before he metamorphoses, full time, into a 'Symbol', and it reeks of salacious sex, ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 20 October 1994
OKAY, FIRST off the individuals who used to call themselves Jim Morrison. Elvis Costello and Prince were all the same person! Their music all featured ...
Prince: The Legendary Black Album (Warners 9362-45793-2)
Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 10 December 1994
BETWEEN THE critically revered Sign O' The Times and the underrated psychedelic funk feast of Lovesexy came The Black Album, withdrawn from release by Prince ...
Report by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 15 March 1995
Prince has always been a bit weird, but lately he seems to have lost it completely. He's changed his name to 0+>, declared war on ...
And The Bland Played On: The Artist Formerly Known As Prince: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 18 March 1995
THIS could be bad. Why? ...
0(+>: Glam Slam At The Astoria/The Emporium, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 15 April 1995
OOH! AAH! 0(+>! ...
Prince: The Gold Experience (Warner Bros 9362-45999-2)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 29 September 1995
"WELCOME TO the Dawn, Playground for the New Power Generation," coos the sultry interactive voice-bite that links the tracks on The Artist Formerly Known As ...
Review by Carol Cooper, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1995
With this LP, our former Prince turns in his most effortlessly eclectic set since 1987’s Sign O’ The Times. ...
0(+>: The man with no name has no label
Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 6 July 1996
The slave we know as Prince tells David Sinclair why his new album is his last (for Warners, anyway) ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, August 1996
ALTERNATIVE TITLE: GROINHEAD GOES TO FLORIDA. A sort of musical honeymoon, one presumes: flushed with post-nuptial bliss after snatching mighty Mayte, the abdominal show-woman ...
Prince: "I feel like this is my last time on earth..."
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 14 December 1996
He's The Artist Formerly Known As Bonkers. That's right, PRINCE is back, free of that pesky Warners (hence the title of his new album 'Emancipation'), ...
Liberated: Prince: Emancipation ****
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, January 1997
: new label, old work rate ...
Review by Paul Trynka, MOJO, January 1997
One hundred and eighty! Minutes that is. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince gets out of his contract in triplicate. Paul Trynka, the writer formerly ...
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, February 1997
"I am not a woman, I am not a man/I am something that you’ll never understand..." ...
Retrospective and Interview by Marc Weingarten, MOJO, February 1997
Outside the studio he was reticent. Inside he became the most ambitious, audacious auteur of the '80s. Marc Weingarten talks to his key collaborators to ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Baltimore Sun, 20 September 1997
BY RECORDING INDUSTRY STANDARDS, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is turning into The Artist Who Formerly Had a Career. Once one of the biggest ...
Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 October 1997
THE ARTIST TALKS via e-mail, which gives him a chance to use his funny language ...
18 Questions for THE ARTIST (still generally known as Prince)
Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, August 1998
How did you spend your 40th birthday? ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Addicted To Noise, August 1998
THE SECURITY GUARD in suit and tie who is watching the closed door to The Artist's upstairs dressing room on The Tonight Show set in ...
Stropping and Funking — Prince, Chaka Khan, Larry Graham: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 29 August 1998
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince did his best to stop Caroline Sullivan seeing his Wembley gig. When she sneaked her way in, this is ...
Prince: The Artist Formerly Known As Successful
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1998
He wriggled away From Warners and the quality control went West. He swopped Prince for Victor for Slave for O(+>) and the fans just couldn't ...
Chaka Khan: Fighting to Reclaim Her Crown
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1998
Chaka Khan's Forum concert might have been canceled but she's still eager to jump back into the music scene. ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
"I HAVE DREAMS of angels holding notes indefinitely in perfect pitch and you don’t want it to stop because if it does you’re dead!" The ...
Prince: Pop stars as you'll never see them
Report by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 20 November 1999
I HAVE A certain contingent of friends who want to protect me from the music business because they think it's riddled with merciless charlatans and ...
Profile and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Code, December 1999
The turn-of-the-century artist takes a second look. ...
Prince: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2000
Guest star-filled major label return for the man who may yet be regal again. ...
An Interview with the Prince formerly known as The Artist
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 2000
FIRST, A CAVEAT. This is probably not the first piece you’ve ever started reading about FINALLY MEETING THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS SHHH-YOU-KNOW-WHO. In fact, ...
Prince: The Rainbow Children (Redline Import) **
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002
SQUIGGLE GOES cosmo-Biblical. ...
Retrospective by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2004
NOTE: Article from a special edition of Q: 50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll 1954-2004 From Elvis to the Beatles ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, April 2004
BEING A PRINCE fan is a thankless task. Second only to waiting for the return of Jesus himself, waiting for the greatest pop innovator of ...
Profile by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 4 April 2004
LAST WEEKEND, tickets for the opening show of Prince's American arena tour, his first in nearly a decade, were changing hands over the internet for ...
Prince: Return of the prodigal
Retrospective by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 17 April 2004
Prince enjoyed a purple reign during the 1980s, but messy wranglings with record companies led to bizarre personal behaviour, and the 1990s were spent in ...
Review by Mark Cooper, The Word, June 2004
Slave To The Rhythm. Prince: the old school's head boy gets back to basics. ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2004
Though he has become a Jehovah's Witness, Prince's stage act remains sexually charged. Having bitterly spurned the record industry giants, he now has a deal ...
Prince: The Artist Formerly Known As
Interview by Anthony DeCurtis, The Word, August 2004
Prince has dumped the "glyph", reverted to his real name, expunged the profanities from his set-list and now apologises for his past megalomaniac excess — ...
Interview by Alan Light, Tracks, September 2004
The hit Musicology album and torrid live shows have made him a star again. Faith and marriage have made him happy. Yes, Prince has come ...
Talkin 'Bout My Generations: The defining artists of pop's five decades
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2004
As voting closes on the UK Music Hall of Fame, Gavin Martin chooses his top artists from each of the past five decades. ...
The 40 Most Collectible Records
Guide by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, 2006
Okay, so it's not really the 40 most collectable records (if it was, it would contain nothing but doo-wop, northern soul and classical music). It's ...
The Special One: The Return of Prince
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, February 2006
This is a previously unpublished version of a cover story for the Observer Music Monthly. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2006
HANG OUT THE bunting, have ticker-tape at the ready and breathe a collective sigh of relief. There's news from the front, and it's all good. ...
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 17 March 2006
IN THE SIXTIES, when record companies thought nothing of squeezing two albums a year from their artists, the music industry benefited rampantly productive artists. As ...
Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 1 May 2006
IN HIS LONG-AGO heyday Prince complimented Kid Creole's backup girls by admiring how Adriana Kaegi "used every beat of the music in her choreography." Evidence ...
Prince at the Super Bowl: A Preview
Report by Evelyn McDonnell, Times Herald-Record, 4 February 2007
WHEN PRINCE sat down with the producers of Super Bowl XLI entertainment to make his pitch for playing the halftime show, he had done his ...
Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, Yahoo! Music, 16 July 2007
THAT PRINCE CHAP, he does like to lob a spanner in the music-industry works. It's record shop chains he's upset this time. They're calling him ...
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 17 July 2007
IF HE HADN'T choked to death in London's Samarkand Hotel 37 years ago, how many mediocre records would Jimi Hendrix have dropped by now? Stevie ...
Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 23 July 2007
EVER THE SHAPE-SHIFTER, Prince Rogers Nelson makes his most outrageous move yet. Lots of fans grumble about the lengths to which the artist formerly known ...
Live Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 12 August 2007
The former Dome plays host to Prince: a fitting venue to reflect on past glories. ...
Profile by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2007
PRINCE JUST stood the music industry on its ear again. You can tell because they're saying he's gone barmy, just like they did when he ...
Special Feature by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 December 2007
GIGS OFTHE YEAR LOU REED: Hammersmith Apollo, London Critically mauled on its original release, Berlin – Reed’s 1973 masterpiece of drug-addled despair, emotional and physical breakdown – ...
Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2009
You realise why Prince was routinely labelled a genius in the late '80s. ...
Purple Drain: Is It Time to Give Up on the Prince We All Want?
Comment by Paul Yamada, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
ON THE FINAL Sunday of March 2009, Prince released a 3-CD set. Two of the albums are his music with his band; the other is ...
Prince: "I'm a musician. And I am music"
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 23 June 2011
RINGTONES ARE EVIL. Islamic countries are fun. The internet is like "a carjacking", where there are no boundaries. Prince on being pop's "loving tyrant" ...
Larry Graham: Soul Secrets of a Family Man
Interview by Paul Sexton, Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2012
The co-founder of funk pioneers Sly and the Family Stone Larry Graham tells Paul Sexton of stardom, survival, and his new group Graham Central Station. ...
The Music of Prince: Carnegie Hall, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, March 2013
PRINCE HAS long been considered a gold standard as a singer, guitarist, stage performer, and producer. He's such a singular force, though, that he hasn't ...
25 Years On: Lovesexy Revisited
Retrospective by David Bennun, The Quietus, 10 July 2013
NOW I THINK OF IT, I'm struck by how seldom I have gone out and bought an album on the day it was released. In ...
André Cymone Returns to Rock the Spot
Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 28 February 2014
Prodigal son of the Minneapolis Sound returns ...
Various Artists: Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero)
Review by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 18 April 2014
WHEN IT COMES to the Minneapolis sound, most folks might believe the entire history begins and ends with the musical genius known as Prince. ...
Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL: SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, August 2014
"Animals strike curious poses!" The inexhaustible beautiful one celebrates 30 years of Purple Rain. ...
Prince: The Making of Purple Rain
Retrospective and Interview by Bill DeMain, Classic Rock, 8 October 2014
How the self-contained, reclusive genius learned to play nice with others, how to rock and in the process found his world-conquering groove. ...
Prince's Around the World in a Day at 30
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 22 April 2015
IN THE SPRING of 1985, there were two types of Prince fans – those who boarded the violet-hued bandwagon years before Purple Rain (both the ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 18 December 2015
FROM THE OPENING NOTES of Prince's HITnRun Phase 2, it seems like a return to the days of the Purple One's midcareer classics like 'Cream', ...
Take The Power Back: Black Artist-Owned Labels
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 25 January 2016
At the height of their careers, Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, George Clinton and Prince all formed their own imprints. Michael Gonzales tells the ...
How Prince's Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 April 2016
His clothes, songwriting, and production prowess all played a part in breaking through any and every type of convention. ...
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 24 April 2016
I'D SAY IT was all there in 1979's 'I Wanna Be Your Lover', Prince's first hit: the falsetto pout, the swivelling guitar riff, the effortless ...
Essay by Larry Jaffee, Women Across Frontiers, 15 June 2016
PRINCE'S UNEXPECTED passing on April 21, 2016, shook popular culture and resulted in the long-overdue recognition of his unique musical genius. Yet Prince enigmatically contradicted ...
For Rock's Fallen Superstars, A Promise of Life After Death
Comment by Roy Trakin, Cuepoint, 12 July 2016
As fans of Prince, Bowie, Lemmy (and many more) confront music mortality, industry innovators revitalize the legacies of deceased artists. ...
Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will The Picture (Faber & Faber)
Book Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, May 2017
IT'S NO SURPRISE that Prince's death has inspired reams of writing attempting to either unravel the man, his creativity and unique appeal or – less ...
André Cymone: Keeping the Purple One's Spirit Alive
Interview by Jeff Weiss, L.A. Weekly, 17 May 2017
IT'S BEEN NEARLY 400 DAYS since Prince passed and his former bandmate, surrogate brother and best friend still can't quite believe that he's gone. To ...
Sheila E. Opens Up About What It Was Really Like Creating Timeless Music With Prince
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, Essence, 14 July 2017
One of the most iconic female musicians of our time shares details about her musical journey and her many collaborations with legendary entertainer Prince. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 27 October 2017
I HADN'T anticipated the sudden pang of sadness as I walked in and saw all those gaudy, gloriously naff outfits. My eyes went straight to ...
Prince: Piano And A Microphone 1983
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 8 September 2018
We already knew Prince was a genius, but worth-the-wait posthumous release Piano And A Microphone 1983 deepens our understanding of why. ...
Prince: Piano & a Microphone 1983 — revelatory listen from a colossal talent
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 21 September 2018
THE RECORDINGS on this posthumous Prince album weren't originally intended for release. But they capture Prince Rogers Nelson at the peak of his powers, alone ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. The Good, The Bad And The Queen, Rock Against Racism 30th anniversary, Victoria Park, London. 2008 I went to the original RAR gigs and ...
see also Sheila E.
see also Sheena Easton
see also Wendy And Lisa
see also Pepe Willie
see also Vanity 6
see also Vanity
see also Apollonia
see also André Cymone
see also Madhouse
see also Cat Glover
see also Jill Jones
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