Prince's pop life, song by song, in chronological order.
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Oliver’s House
A “weird” guitarist with multiple girlfriends, a piano in his bathroom, and an Oedipal complex? They may as well have called the song “Prince’s House.”
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The sheer celebration of life visible in every frame of Sign “O” the Times was a balm for the soul, an antidote to fascism’s anti-life equation.
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The Glamorous Life
Prince had tried before with his protégées, most notably Vanity, to Pygmalion a female version of himself; but while a few of these femme-Princes (Princesses?) could emulate him as a sex symbol, none before Sheila had the stage presence or musicianship.