Prince - Matt Thorne

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.